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Published by Printed for W. Taylor at the Ship in Pater-Noster-Row 1719-1720, London, 1719
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
First Edition
Exceedingly rare complete first edition set of all three books in Defoe's classic Robinson Crusoe series, including the scarce first and only printing of the third book in the series. Octavo, three volumes bound in full crushed red morocco by Francis Bedford with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, triple gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. The set consists of: Vol. I. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, where-in all the Men perished by himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates. Written by Himself. First edition, mixed state with the famed engraved frontispiece portrait of Robinson Crusoe by Clark and Pine, the title in second state with semi-colon after London, third state of the preface with the catchword "apply" correctly spelled, and first state of Z4r with "Pilot" misspelled "Pilate" and "Portugnese" for "Portuguese", four pages of advertisements at rear. Bibliographic note tipped in. Vol. II. ; Being the Second and Last Part of His Life, And the Strange Surprizing Accounts of his Travels Round three Parts of the Globe. Written By Himself. First edition, second issue with the publisher's notice to the verso of the last leaf of the Preface and page 295 corectly numbered, folding map of the world and 11 pages of advertisements at rear. Volume III. : With His Vision of the Angelick World. Written By Himself. First edition, first issue with the catchword "The" on page 270, folding engraved plan of Crusoe's island by Clark and Pine, 2 pages of advertisements at rear. [Grolier English 41; Hutchins 52-71, 97-112, 122-8; Moore 412 & 417; PMM 180; Rothschild 775]. In fine condition. An exceedingly rare and handsomely bound complete set of this cornerstone in English literature. Often hailed as the first novel in the English language and purportedly based on the experiences on Alexander Selkirk, who spent four years on the uninhabited island of Juan Fernandez from 1704, the adventures of Crusoe and his companion Friday have attained mythical status in the history of Western literature. The book's success was immediate, a second edition being called for only seventeen days after publication of the first on April 25, 1719, with a further two editions published before the end of year. The Farther Adventures appeared on August 20, and relates how Crusoe revisited the island with Friday. A final part, The Serious Reflections, followed in 1720. "The romance of Crusoes's adventures, the figure of civilized man fending for himself on a desert island, has made an imperishable impression on the mind of man. much of modern science fiction is basically Crusoe's island changed to a planet" (PMM).
Published by W. Taylor at the Ship and Black-Swan in Paternaster Row,, London, 1719
Seller: Rare And Antique Books PBFA, Exeter, DEVON, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. John Leech (illustrator). 1st Edition. Set of three Daniel Defoe Editions of Robinson Crusoe: Exceptionally rare set comprising all three books in the Robinson Crusoe series. A very good set in very good condition. All volumes are rebacked in calf with Vol 1 and 2 having raised bands on the spine. The contents are in very good condition with a scattering of brownings and light markings. Covers are lightly rubbed and corners/edges a little worn. Bindings are tight. All octavo 20cm x 13cm x 3cm. Volume 1, The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York Mariner and Volume 2, The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Being the Second and last part of his life. Together with the rarest of the three - Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe with his vision of the Angelick World. Volume 1: The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Second Edition. 1719. Bookplate on front free page. Engraved front piece portrait by Clarke and Pine. Variant in p 343 Line 2 reading "Pilot" and Line 21 "Portugesfe" printed for W. Taylor at the ship in Pater-Nofter-Row. Volume 2: The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe being the second and last part of his life. First edition 1719. Map is missing. Volume 3: Serious Reflections of Robinson Crusoe: First edition. 1720. This volume was not as popular as the first two books so was never reprinted, making this the first and only printing. Few exists outside museums. This volume has excellent provenance as it was owned by Walter Wilson who was an evangelist of Daniel Defoe. Walter Wilson (1781¿1847) was an English biographer of nonconformist clergy and their churches. Wilson was an illegitimate son of the founder the Times newspaper. He became a book seller and set up a shop in Mewsgate, Charing Cross where he collected Daniel Defoe editions. Wilson went onto write a three volume "The Memoirs of the Life and Times of Daniel Defoe" in 1830 which was well received. When his father died, Wilson was left a shareholding in the Times newspaper. Bookplate with Walter Wilson printed on the paste down. Inscription to the front free end paper, dated March 11th 1832, as a gift from Walter Wilson to his friend James Plumptre. Light pencil markings on p112. Frontispiece of the map of the island with some episodes depicted, signed: "Clark & Pine Sc. 1719" is missing.
Published by Printed for W. Taylor, London, 1719
Seller: Heritage Book Shop, ABAA, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Full Descripton: DEFOE, Daniel. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner. Who lived eight and twenty Years all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With an Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates. Written by Himself. The Fourth Edition. London: Printed for W. Taylor, 1719. The rare fourth edition, first issue (Hutchins 4A). With no comma after â Life'; The tail-pieces at the bottom of page 364 with two birds flanking a flaming bowl, above a cupid's head and bow and arrows, and page "317" correctly numbered. The fourth edition was published the same year as the first edition. Octavo (7 1/4 x 4 5/8 inches; 185 x 118 mm). [4], 364, [4, ads] pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Robinson Crusoe by Clark & Pine. Folding map is present in the accompanying first edition of volume 2. Decorative woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. Volume I of this work was so popular that it went through four editions within the first four months of it being printed. [Together with:] [DEFOE, Daniel]. The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; Being the Second and Last Part of his Life, and of the Strange Surprizing Accounts of his Travels Round three Parts of the Globe. Written by Himself. To which is added a Map of the World, in which is Delineated the Voyages of Robinson Crusoe. London: Printed by W. Taylor, 1719. First edition, first issue, second variant (Hutchins "B2"), with the verso of leaf A4 blank and with "Breaking," "Dif-/ference," "Punish-/ment," and "wanting" on the recto; with "Farther" on the recto of leaf B1; with p. 295 numbered 215; and the text showing uniform printing. The typesetting is not corrected on pp. 2, 103, 139, or 231. Octavo. [8], 373, [11, ads] pp. Folding engraved map of the world facing title-page. Decorative woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. Two volumes uniformly bound in full contemporary speckled calf. Spines ruled in gilt. Both volumes with red morocco spine labels, lettered in gilt. Spines repaired at hinges. Both volumes with previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Volume I with previous owner's old ink notes on front and back endpapers and on blank recto of the frontispiece. Old ink signature to top margin of title-page, Volume II with some minor repairs to top edge of folding map, supplying a few letters in facsimile. Title-page is a bit frayed along fore-edge. Previous owner's old ink signature dated 1776 to top of title-page and first page of preface. A tiny hole to blank margin of leaf Z4. Free endpapers renewed. Overall an excellent copy of this set. Beginning with Captain William Dampier's enormously popular A New Voyage Round the World (1697; seventh edition 1729), English travel literature enjoyed a second Renaissance. Circumnavigators and privateersâ "Dampier and Woodes Rogers being preeminentâ "published accounts of their adventures. In at least three of the most popular instancesâ "Dampier (1697), Rogers (1712), and Edward Cooke, one of Roger's mates (1712)â "the frontispiece to their volume of voyages was a folding map, a planisphere by Herman Moll upon which a dotted line traced the route of the voyager. This then was the convention which lies immediately behind "A Map of the World on which is Delineated the Voyages of Robinson Cruso." Crusoe's folding planisphere has been attributed to Moll, but though it is similar to the map employed by Dampier and Cooke and is even closer to that employed by Rogers, it is not identical to either, and lacking an "H. Moll fecit," its origin remains indefinite. It first appeared in the first edition of The Farther Adventures; it was added to the fourth and later editions of The Strange Surprizing Adventures": (Newberry Library) "After twenty years of enormously prolific pamphleteering, political and sectarian, sometimes in verse, Defoe suddenly disclosed a genius for devising a tale of adventure. The special form of adventure that he chose, and even the name of his hero, have been adopted by countless imitators.This influence is not yet dissipated, for much of science fiction is basically Crusoe's island changed to a planet. At least equally relevant.is the figure of the lonely human being subduing the pitiless forces of nature; going back to nature, indeed, and portraying the â noble savage' in a way that made the book required reading for Rousseau's Emile. Robinson Crusoe has long since been more widely read in the abridged versions for young people, in which his breast-beating and philosophizing are less prominent than the footprint in the sand, Man Friday, the threatening savages, and the endless ingenuity and contrivance that make the hero's life more tolerable. But the pious sections of the book are also relevant in the religious inferences drawn by Crusoe from his communings with nature" (Printing and the Mind of Man). Crusoe 250 27. Grolier, 100 English, 41. Hutchins, pp. 78-80, Hutchins, pp. 97-112. Hutchins, pp. 122-128. Printing and the Mind of Man 180. HBS 68990. $10,000.
Published by London: Printed for John Stockdale 1790., 1790
Seller: Bernard Quaritch Ltd ABA ILAB, London, United Kingdom
First Edition
Two vols, 8vo, pp.[20], 389, [1]; v, [1], 456, [16 (advertisements, with a terminal blank)]; with engraved frontispieces and title-pages and 12 engraved plates by Medland after Stothard, tissue guards; the 'Life of Daniel Defoe' has a separate title-age and frontispiece (register and pagination continuous); extra-illustrated with 13 contemporary original drawings in pencil, pen and colour wash, each within a black border; some offset from the black borders else a very good copy in early nineteenth-century diced russia, the covers gilt with a large scalloped central wheel and cornerpieces, neatly rebacked and recornered; armorial stencil to front endpapers of William John Church.First Stockdale edition, a unique copy, augmented with an evocative suite of original illustrations. Stockdale's Crusoe 'was an important contribution to the life of Defoe's book. The handsome set restored the Crusoe text, which, by 1790, had been much abused. George Chalmer's Life of Defoe [first 1785] was the first significant biography of Defoe,' while Thomas Stothard's 'extensive and beautiful illustrations made Stockdale's the first edition so finely decorated' (Lovett 89). Stothard had first illustrated Crusoe with a set of seven images in The Novelist's Magazine (1781), described by Austin Dobson as the beginning of English book illustration 'by imaginative composition'. For the Stockdale edition, he produced a new set, engraved by Thomas Medland 'a more comprehensive series the first pictorial treatment of Robinson Crusoe as a progress' (Blewett) and they paved the way for numerous illustrated editions to follow. They show an industrious, domestic Crusoe, sociable with Friday and the Spanish soldier they rescue, and the plates are dominated by the human protagonists. In contrast the anonymous illustrator here shows a Crusoe more overwhelmed by his surroundings, which are rendered in lush tropical colour, and threatened by those he encounters; he unloads stores from the shipwreck, constructs shelters, is surprised by a goat in a cave, navigates his canoe to the Spanish wreck. In the first four images he is in jaunty checked shirt, which gives over thereafter to his trademark furs and hat. Friday appears in two images, first in red stripes, as he and Crusoe fire on the cannibals; and then playing with the bear up a tree, a popular scene clearly derived from the Stothard's illustrations of 1781, but which was omitted in 1790. Stothard's images for the Further Adventures are rather static conversation-pieces with multiple figures. Our talented illustrator includes instead several dramatic scenes of boats, and of conflicts with 'savages', as a well as a Chinese potentate under an umbrella.See Blewett, The Illustration of Robinson Crusoe (1996). Language: English.
Published by W. Taylor, London, 1719
Seller: Ernestoic Books, Clarence, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Third Edition. Third edition stated on the title page. Measures approximately 7.25" x 4.75", with 364 numbered pages. Original full calf binding, with newly rebacked spine and titling. Book is in very good condition. Moderate surface wear and chipping to the original leather boards. Textblock evenly and moderately foxed and stained. Previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown. Previous owner's writing on bottom of the title page in ink. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory # (N12-21).
Published by Amsterdam, Chez l'Honoré et Chatelain. 1722, 1720, 1721., 1721
First Edition
3 volumes. In-12°. 2 f. n.ch, XII, 629 p., 1 f. bl.; 1 f. n.ch., VIII, 588 p., 1 f. bl.; 1 f. n.ch., XXXIV p., 1 f. n.ch. table, 632 p., 1 f. bl. Avec 3 frontispice, 3 vignettes de titre, 3 mappemonde et 18 gravures par Bernard Picard. Reliure demi cuir d'époque lis, pièce de titre en maroquin rouge, tomaison en maroquin vert. Brunet II, 566. - Cohen 404. - Gumuchian 4793. - Retirage de la première édition de 1720 identique pour le premier volume. Volume 2 et 3 en édition originale. Selon notice de la BNF, imprimé d'après le matériel typographique à Rouen par Jean-Baptiste II Machuel. Le premier volume publié 1720, ici en retirage identique de 1722. Chaque volume avec le "Mappe-Monde ou Carte Générale de la Terre, Sur laquelle est rouve le Voyage de Robinson Crusoe". Les illustrations, dont seul le frontispice du premier volume est signé, sont de Picard. C'est la première édition illustrée du Ronindon. L'édition anglaise de 1719 n'a que le frontispice pour le premier volume et la Carte. Chaque volume avec une préface du traducteur introduisant le lecteur français à la réflexion sur les valeurs du roman, à la philosophie et à la morale de son auteur. - Quelques rousseurs, papier légèrement bruni, dos un peu frotté. Chaque titre avec mention de propirietaire "Schöning. Sprache: französisch.
Published by presso Domenico Occhi in Merceria all'Unione,, 1730
Seller: Libreria Antiquaria Pontremoli SRL, Milano, MI, Italy
Book First Edition
in Venezia, presso Domenico Occhi in Merceria all'Unione, 1730; 1731, Prima edizione italiana di entrambi i volumi. Notevole set composto dai due volumi, usciti a distanza di un anno l uno dall altro, a comporre l intera storia di Robinson Crusoe. Vol. I: molto fresco (tracce di sporco leggero alla prima carta; un antico possessore appone a penna la dicitura «Tomo primo» al frontespizio e «fine del tomo primo» a p. 271). Vol. II: esemplare più che buono (margine interno dell antiporta rinforzato, prime carte segnate da foxing, lievi fioriture e aloni passim; antichi ex libris manoscritti alla prima sguardia, con due fori dovuti all acidità dell inchiostro). L edizione originale dell opera di Defoe uscì a Londra il 25 aprile del 1719: il successo fu immediato, le ristampe si susseguirono numerosissime (ben quattro nello stesso anno), così come le edizioni pirata, e ben presto il "Robinson Crusoe" attraversò la Manica per approdare nel continente e diffondersi nel mondo: solo la Bibbia può vantare un numero maggiore di traduzioni. Nel 1720 uscì ad Amsterdam la prima edizione in francese, stampata in tre volumi (l ultimo nel 1721) e corredata dalle splendide tavole del grande incisore Bernard Picart (1663-1733). La traduzione era opera del poeta satirico Hyacinthe Cordonnier, detto Thémiseul de Saint-Hyacinthe, e del giornalista olandese Justus van Effen, che apportarono alcune modifiche al testo originale per renderlo più appetibile ai lettori francesi. -- A distanza di una decina d anni il romanzo arrivò anche in Italia: nel 1730 uscì presso l editore veneziano Domenico Occhi la prima traduzione italiana, che qui presentiamo. L ignoto traduttore lavorò sulla versione francese, dimostrando notevole abilità e un attenzione particolare nell evitare inutili tecnicismi poco comprensibili al grande pubblico. Nel 1730 Occhi stampò l opera, corredandola all antiporta con la riproduzione della splendida tavola di Picart presente nell edizione francese, che ritraeva Crusoe con l ombrello di vimini e il fucile. Il successo fu amplissimo e l anno seguente Domenico Occhi ripubblicò l opera, affiancando al primo un secondo volume, con il racconto del ritorno di Robinson Crusoe nell isola: la bella antiporta figurata ritrae Robinson «che si dispone a un secondo viaggio», come recita la didascalia. -- L edizione è di grande rarità; il volume primo è censito in soli cinque esemplari nell Opac Sbn, il secondo in soli tre esemplari. 2 voll., in 8°, legature uniformi in piena pergamena rigida coeva, sguardie rinnovate, pp. [8 compresa l antiporta figurata] 271 [1 bianca]; 311 (compresa l antiporta figurata) [1 bianca]. Prima edizione italiana di entrambi i volumi. Notevole set composto dai due volumi, usciti a distanza di un anno l uno dall altro, a comporre l intera storia di Robinson Crusoe. Vol. I: molto fresco (tracce di sporco leggero alla prima carta; un antico possessore appone a penna la dicitura «Tomo primo» al frontespizio e «fine del tomo primo» a p. 271). Vol. II: esemplare più che buono (margine interno dell antiporta rinforzato, prime carte segnate da foxing, lievi fioriture e aloni passim; antichi ex libris manoscritti alla prima sguardia, con due fori dovuti all acidità dell inchiostro). legature uniformi in piena pergamena rigida coeva, sguardie rinnovate,
Published by Chez L'Honoré & Chatelain, Amsterdam, 1720
First Edition
Condition: Very good plus. First edition thus. First printing of the first French edition of ROBINSONCRUSOE, one of the first ever translations of the book that has more translations than any work except the Bible. ROBINSONCRUSOE's reputation as one of the most famous books in the world began immediately after publication with the printing of French, German, and Dutch translations in 1720. This edition is prized not only as the earliest French translation, but also for its illustrations: it is the first edition to be illustrated with more than a frontispiece and maps. It contains 6 fine copperplate engravings, including a wonderful frontispiece portrait ofCrusoeby the renowned engraver Bernard Picart, and the highly sought folding map by Hermann Moll (which didn't appear until the fourth edition in English). Two more volumes of the later parts of ROBINSON CRUSOE followed the next year; this volume is complete in itself. A beautiful example of a rare and important book. 12mo. 6'' x 3.75''. Full contemporary speckled calf, gilt borders, raised bands. Marbled endpapers. Engraved frontispiece by Bernard Picart, 5 full-page copperplate engravings, and one engraved folding map by Hermann Moll.With the incorrect catchword on page xii reading "les" instead of "la".[2], xii, 629 pages. Early engraved bookplate on front pastedown, and another bookplate on rear pastedown. Ink ownership inscriptions from 1770 and 1816 on front free endpaper. A bit of expected edgewear to contemporary binding.
Amsterdam, Honoré et Chatelain, 1721-1720-1721. Bound in three later, uniform blue half morocco bindings with gilt spines. Light brownspotting throughout, but a nice copy, complete with all three frontispieces, three maps and 18 plates. First edition - reissue of the first volume and first issue of volumes two and three - of the first French translation of one of the most important literary works ever written. "Robinson Crusoe" marks the beginning of realistic fiction as a literary genre and is widely recognized as the first English novel. Originally published in English in 1719, the work was seen through no less than four editions before the end of its first year and went on to become one of the most widely published books in history, spawning so many imitations, not only in literature but also in film, television and radio, that its name is used to define an entire genre - the Robinsonade. By the end of the 19th century, no book in the history of Western literature had more editions, spin-offs and translations than "Robinson Crusoe", with more than 700 alternative versions of it, the French translation being among the very first. It's influence in literature is almost unparalleled.
Published by Guérin Müller & Co, Paris, 1865
Seller: Bromer Booksellers, Inc., ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Small quarto. 8ff., printed one side only, with a pop-up image folded over the text. Each pop-up consists of three layers: a background, a middle ground with the characters of the particular scene, and the foreground with small landscape elements at ground level. A turquoise ribbon connects the layers and extends long enough for the reader to pull the pop-up into an upright position. This is the first French edition of the second title in the New Scenic Series produced by Dean & Sons; other titles in this series using this ribbon-pull style of pop-up include Aladdin, Cinderella, and Little Red Riding Hood. All images intact, with all eight ribbons still of original length and unrestored. Original cloth-backed color printed boards show some rubbing and light wear, else fine and bright.
Published by Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald, London, 1929
Seller: Ashton Rare Books ABA : PBFA : ILAB, Market Harborough, United Kingdom
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The First UK printing of this illustrated edition published by Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald, London in 1929. The BOOK is in Very Good++ or better condition. The limited issue of only 35 copies signed by Kauffer to the limitation page, this one unnumbered. Printed on T. H. Saunders mould-made paper, and bound in quarter morocco. There was also a trade edition of 500 copies unsigned on normal paper and bound in cloth. Original blue quarter morocco, titles to spine silver, blue buckram boards with Kauffer's design in silver to the front board, edges untrimmed. The morocco spine is slightly sunned and rubbed. Internally, apart from some offsetting to the endpapers, the book is clean and the binding remains tight. Frontispiece and 7 hand coloured illustrations by E. McKnight Kauffer, using the pochoir process. This deluxe signed issue is rare, with only two copies recorded at auction in the past 50 years. Kauffer was born in the U.S.A. but settled in England in 1914. He was a member of both Wyndham Lewis's 'Group X' and the' Cumberland Market Group'. Kauffer's real genius was in advertising art; he produced seminal posters for the London Transport Board and for the Great Western Railway, as well as book jackets and illustrations. A very attractive production. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact. Signed by Illustrator(s).
Published by Tiskom I nakladom A. Jakica, U Zagrebu [Zagreb], 1864
First Edition
First Croatian edition. First Croatian edition. In contemporary half cloth. Panels covered with marbled paper. With 55 text illustrations. 244 p. Page 220, 235 and 243 misnumbered. Scarce, first Croatian edition of Defoe's 1719 novel, Robinson Crusoe. Based on the German translation by Otto Leonhard Heubner, published in Leipzig in 1857. Extremely scarce, we could trace only one copy in institutional holding worldwide, in the library of the Museumsgesellschaft Zürich. . Cover worn, bumped at corners. First flyleaf not present. With ownership inscriptions by different hands in pencil and ink. Inked out collection number on the front panel and the title page in crayon. A few pages fingermarked. Overall in good condition. In contemporary half cloth. Panels covered with marbled paper. With 55 text illustrations.
London, John Stockdale, 1790. Large 8vo. (6) + (8) + (8) + 1-389pp.; V + 1-456pp. + 14 pp. advertisments. 2 engraved title-vignettes, frontispiece in both volumes and 14 engraved plates after Stothard by Medland. Most tissue guards present. 14 pp. publisher?s catalogue. Finely bound in brown morocco (Bayntun, Bath). Spine gilt in compartments. A few spots to margins, one minor hole, affecting one letter. First Stothard edition with the first appearance of George Chalmer?s biography of The Life of daniel De Foe (1790). .
Published by John Stockdale, London, 1790
Seller: Ziern-Hanon Galleries, Frontenac, MO, U.S.A.
First Edition
Full Calf Leather. Condition: Very Good. Thomas Stothard (illustrator). First Edition Thus. FIRST EDITION thus. Two volumes. Original diced calf boards with modern rebacked calf leather spine with raised bands and gilt tooled design of a flower. Two red morocco labled with gilt lettering. Frontispieces, illustrated. This has the lengthy life of Defoe plus an elaborate list of Defoe's writings, followed by the 8 pages of publisher's catalog in Vol 2. Thomas Stothard (August 17, 1755 - April 27, 1834) was an English painter and engraver. He designed plates for pocket-books, tickets for concerts, illustrations to almanacs, portraits of popular actors--into all these he infused a grace and distinction which make them sought after by collectors. Among his more important series are the two sets of illustrations to Robinson Crusoe, one for the New Magazine and one for Stockdale's edition, and the plates to The Pilgrim's Progress (1788), to Harding's edition of Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield (1792), to The Rape of the Lock (1798), to the works of Solomon Gessner (1802), to William Cowper's Poems (1825), and to The Decameron; while his figure-subjects in the superb editions of Samuel Rogers's Italy (1830) and Poems (1834) prove that even in old age his imagination was still fertile, and his hand firm. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.
Published by Paris, Francisque Borel et Alexandre Varenne, 1836, 1836
First Edition
Couverture rigide. Condition: Bon. 1ère édition. 2 vol. in-8 (20,7 x 12,5), demi-veau vert lierre, dos long avec titre et tomaison dorés, chainettes et frises dorées, fleurons à froid (reliure de l'époque sur brochure), faux-titre en anglais, titre, titre gravé, II pp. (préface), frontispice de Devéria, XVI pp. (Vie de Daniel de Foe), 422 pp. et faux-titre en anglais, titre gravé, titre, 474 pp., XXVIII pp. (notice et dissertation). Rare édition originale de la traduction de Petrus Borel, illustrée d'un portrait sur Chine par Devéria et de 250 vignettes et culs-de-lampe gravés sur bois d'après Célestin Nanteuil, Devéria, Boulanger et Napoléon Thomas. « Édition fort rare, considérée comme un des beaux spécimens de la rénovation de la gravure sur bois. » (Carteret). Reliure de l'époque, quelques pâles rousseurs, un double feuillet en partie détaché avec marges lég. effrangées. Réf. bibliographiques : Charles Asselineau, Mélanges tirés d'une petite bibliothèque romantique, p. 30., Carteret, III, 240. Livre d'occasion.
Published by Independent Office, Wellington, 1852
Seller: Tinakori Books, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. [8], 157 pages, frontispiece and 3 other plates (all present, the last plate accidentally bound in twice). Leather spine and corners, blue cloth boards. Ex-General Assembly Library New Zealand with gilt stamp on spine and front board. A nice and tasteful binding. Rare New Zealand Maori language edition. The first novel translated into Maori, also the first book in Maori with specially prepared illustrations.
Published by W Taylor, UK, 1880
Book First Edition
Full-Leather. Condition: Very Good ++. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Victorian Facsimile Edition Circa 1870. A lovely Full leather Modern Binding in the 17th century style. Engraved frontis plate. Book is very good++ and in bright condition. Contents good. Pages lightly age toned. More images can be taken upon request. RefA1234.
Published by Printed for John Stockdale, London, 1790
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
First Edition
Full leather. Condition: Very good. The Stockdale Edition of the Life And Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, published in London in 1790. (illustrator). First Edition. Octavo, [two volumes], xii, [8], [frontis], 389pp, [3]; v, [1], 456pp, [8pp. catalogue]. Full brown calf, modern calf spines, title in gilt over red morocco, decorative gilt bands on spine. Complete with 17 illustrated plates by Thomas Medland, after Thomas Stothard. Includes the 8 page catalogue in Volume II and binding instructions in preface of Volume I. Occasional toning to plates, some offsetting to opposite text. (ESTC T7229) An attractive set. (Sabin 19285). Thomas Stothard was the "first English artist to realize the visual potential of Robinson Crusoe" with his depiction of Crusoe being an emphasis of contentment, harmony, and the nobility of man. (Lowndes II, p. 613.).
Published by L'Honore & Chatalain, 1720
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. La Vie et les Avantures Surprenantes de Robinson Crusoe, first edition in French, coming soon after the wildly popular first edition in English published the year before. This is one volume containing parts 3 and 4. Good only condition.
Published by Published by John Stockdale, London,, 1790
First Edition
Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. A complete copy of the First Stockdale edition of Robinson Crusoe, with all 17 plates including the 2 engraved vignette titles. Two volumes in period full polished tree calf. Spines gilt tooled, with later morocco title labels. Vol 1 with repaired split to spine. Attractive set in period leather, very occasional light soiling to text.
Published by John Stockdale, London, 1790
Seller: Richard Booth's Bookshop, Hereford, United Kingdom
First Edition
HardBack. Condition: Good. No jacket. First Edition. Who lived eight twenty years all alone in an uninhabited Island on the Coast of America near the Mouth of the Great River Oroonoque, Having been cast on the Shore by Shipwereck, wherein all Men perished but himself. With an account of how he was at last as strangely delivered by Pyrates. Written by himself. 1st Edition, Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly, 1790. 2 Volume Complete Set in Tree Calf Leather. Royal 8vo. xii 389pp. ii 455pp. xiv. 17 wonderful and iconic illustrations by Stothard, of which 16 copperengraved by Medland after Stothard, including 2 tissueguarded frontispieces, 2 vignette title page illustrations and 14 full page plate illustrations, all present and correct as called for and in excellent order. Very good condition internally, clean tight sound square, no bookplate, inscriptions or ownership marks of any kind, unusually and remarkably free from foxing or browning save to tissueguards, not intruding or detracting in the least, tender to upper hinges holding firm, printed on thick creamy paper with wide margins. Bound in good attractive gilt lettered, dentelled, ruled and decorated full tree calf, bumped to lower leading corner Vol I and rubbed to rest with light loss, some rubbing to boards with small splash to upper Vol II, closed split 2 to 3 hinges. Good shelf presence featuring 7 gilt ruled flat bands, 5 gilt dentelled compartments with gilt ship and anchor vignette decoration and 1 remaining black title label to spines gently chipped to head with very slight loss. 2 Volume set of First Stockdale Edition, with Stothards definitive Crusoe illustrations.2 Volume set of First Stockdale Edition, with Stothards definitive Crusoe illustrations. The story of Robinson Crusoe has been thought to be based upon Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway who lived for four years on an uninhabited Pacific Island, now part of Chile and renamed Robinson Crusoe Island. Upon first publication, Crusoe himself was credited as author, leading readers to believe he was a real person and the book a travelogue. Instantly and wildly popular, the work is often credited as marking the beginning of realistic fiction as a genre, and generally seen as a contender for the first English Novel. It has gone on to become one of the most widely published books in history. 2 Volume set of First Stockdale Edition, with Stothards definitive Crusoe illustrations.
Published by Cadell & Davies, 1820
Seller: Welsh Bridge Books & Collectables, Shrewsbury, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. THOMAS STOTHARD (illustrator). 1st Edition. Complete suite of 22 proofs before titles, including 2 vignettes for the 1820 edition of Defoe's Life and adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Engraved by Charles Heath the elder (1785 - 1848) on India paper (mounted) after the original drawings by Thomas Stothard (1755 - 1834). Loose within folder consisting of drab boards, paper label and blue leather spine. 2 small holes to fore edge suggestive of ribbon ties. 'Drawn by T. Stothard R.A. Published Feby 1st. 1820. by Cadell & Davies Strand London. Engraved by E. Heath.' Sizes: Folder 31 x 46.5cm, prints 44 x 30cm, images 9.5 x12.5cm. Condition: Spine gone, boards discoloured and worn. Prints foxed, particularly the margins, less so within plate mark and only a few images being lightly affected. Creasing and wear to periphery of prints including a few small nicks & tears with larger creases, tears & watermarks to a few. Few small pieces missing from corners and fore-edges here & there. A very rare collection.
Published by Leipzig, Dehne, 1919
Seller: Treptower Buecherkabinett Inh. Schultz Volha, Berlin, Germany
Book First Edition Signed
4°. 53 Seiten, 1 Bl. Bordeauxroter Original-Ganzlederband (signiert: "Hübel & Denck, Leipzig") mit goldgeprägtem Rückentitel und Kopfgoldschnitt (etwas berieben u. leicht beschabt). Erste Ausgabe mit diesen Illustrationen. - Eins von wenigen (50?, nicht bezeichnet als VA) Exemplaren der Vorzugsausgabe (GA 300) auf Zanders-Bütten, im Original-Ganzlederband und mit zwei zusätzlichen Original-Lithographien. - Vgl. Sennewald 19, 2 und Lang 102 (beide mit der Normalausgabe mit nur 10 Lithographien). - Sehr gutes, zweiseitig unbeschnittenes Exemplar. Schr-Ha Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 2000.
Published by München, Der Bücherwinkel., 1922
Seller: Antiquariat an der Stiftskirche, Bad Waldsee, Germany
Book First Edition Signed
4° (32x26), 3 Bl., 239 S., 3 Bl., mit typographischen Titel, radierten iilustierten und signierten Titel und weiteren 20 signierten Radierungen, sowie jeweils einer radierten Anfangs- und Schlußvignette, brauner Oldr (Franzband) auf 5 Bünden, Deckelfiletten, kleine Eckfleurons, reiche RückenPrägung, KopfgoldSchnitt, braune Büttenvorsätze, gering berieben, Büttenrand gebräunt, insgesamt etwas angestaubt, sauberes gepflegtes Exemplar, [= Drucke des Bücherwinkels; 1], [Rodenberg 350].- mit 21 handsignierten Radierungen Druckvermerk: Der 'Robinson Crusoe' erschien als erstes Werk der 'Drucke des Bücherwinkels' im Herbst 1922 in einer Auflage von einhundert in der Presse numerierten Exemplaren mit zwanzig signierten Originalradierungen von F. Heubner, München. Exemplar Nr. 75, gedruckt für Erwin Berger Verlag, Berlin (GA 100).- Sprache: Deutsch. * * * * --- due to EPR-Restrictions NO SHIPPING to Bulgaria, Greece, Luxembourg, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Slovakia and Spain --- * * * *.
Hardcover. Condition: Sehr gut. Erste Ausgabe. 442 S., 1 Blatt; 443 S., 2 Blatt. Orig.-Halbpergamentbände. Sarkowski 363. Eins von 600 im Impressum numerierten Exemplaren, die die Offizin W. Drugulin in Leipzig nach dem Vorbild des Originals druckte. Der Nachdruck erschien ohne Nennung des Insel-Verlags. Ein schönes, gut erhaltenes Exemplar mit nur leichten Gebrauchsspuren.
Published by Cassell, Petter & Galpin, 1876
Seller: Schilb Antiquarian, Columbia, MO, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1876 BEAUTIFUL Robinson Crusoe Mariner Defoe Voyages Shipwreck English ART FOLIO It is never too late to be wise. Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe One of the most beautiful travel books in figures of the eighteenth century. (Gumuchian) Called the original adventure novel, Robinson Crusoe was originally published in 1719 and depicts the life of a castaway who learns to survive on an island for decades. However, while it saw substantial success with the masses, there were still those that were not impressed. Charles Dickens said, .Robinson Crusoe should be the only instance of a universally popular book that could make no one laugh and could make no one cry. This impressive edition was published in London by Cassell and features decorative page borders and in-text illustrations. Item number: #24548 Price: $599 DEFOE, Daniel The life and strange surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, mariner, as related by himself : With upwards of 100 illustrations London : Cassell, Petter & Galpin, [1876]. First edition. Details: Collation: Complete with all pages o xiii, [1], 394 no ads at the end o Heavily illustrated throughout Provenance: Handwritten E. W. Avery Language: English Binding: Leather; tight and secure Size: ~10.5in X 7.75in (26.5cm x 20cm) Our Guarantee: Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide. Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving, and we will offer a full refund without reservation! 24548 Photos available upon request.
Published by Berlin, August Riese, o.J. 0
Seller: Antiquariat CoBrA, Oberrohrbach, Austria
First Edition
Berlin, August Riese, o.J. Kl.-8°. 120 Seiten. Enthält acht wirklich allerschönste kolorierte Bilder. ODeckelblatt aufgezogen auf fachmännisch restaurierten Einband. Etwas angeschmutzt, 3 letzte Blätter hinterlegt. Vermutlich erste Ausgabe. Sehr gutes frisches Exemplar ! Sprache: Deutsch. *** Bitte kontaktieren Sie mich immer BEVOR Sie bestellen! Für ausführliche Beschreibungen und Bilder sowie günstigere Versandoptionen kontaktieren Sie mich bitte per Email! Please contact me always BEFORE you order! For detailled descriptions and photos as well as cheaper shipping options please send an email! ***.
Published by Harrison & Co No 18 Paternoster Row, GB, 1791
Seller: Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976), WINTERTON, United Kingdom
First Edition
Condition: Good. DISBOUND TEXT (No covers). 210 x 130 mm. The seven plates delineated by Stothard are all dated 1781 and are variously sculpted by Heath, Collyer, Walker and Grignion. They are arranged out of order throughout the text. Text commences with a title page and a preface and also has a preface to second volume (but not a second title page). Pagination [1]-151 [2] 155-291. Lost leaf might have been the second title page but no sign of it's removal. The whole printed in two columns. Generally fairly clean tight text but some spotting only occasionally quite heavy. Pages 43-6 trimmed in margins (with no text loss). Repair to margin of plate V. Suitable to rebind.
Von ihm selbst beschrieben, nach der dritten engelländischen Edition, auf vornehmes Begehren, ins Teutsche übersetzt. Leipzig, Dehne 1919. 53 S., 1 Bl. mit 10 sign. Steinzeichnungen con Walter Klemm. Halbpergamentband im Schmuckschuber 31,2 x 26,2 cm. Eins von 300 num. Exemplaren. Sehr gutes Exemplar.
Published by München: Der Bücherwinkel, 1922
Seller: Antiquariat Dr. Lorenz Kristen, Berlin, Germany
First Edition Signed
Prachteinband. Vortitel, Titelblatt und 239 Seiten sowie 1 Blatt. Handgebundener Halblederband auf fünf echten Bünden mit Kopfgoldschnitt (der Rücken etwas lichtspurig, die Außengelenke brüchig, sonst tadelloses, auf zweiseitig unbeschnittenen Bütten gedrucktes Exemplar). 31 x 26 cm. Exemplar Nr. 6 von 100, hier das Exemplar aus der legendären Sammlung Achilles. Jede Radierung von Heubner eigenhändig signiert. Erster Druck des Bücherwinkels. - Vgl. Rodenberg 350, 1. und Hesse (Achilles) 171. 1950 gr.