The life and strange surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, mariner / by Daniel Defoe ; with nearly one hundred original drawings and decorations done from sketches made in the tropics specially for this work, by the brothers Louis and Frederick Rhead.

Author
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 [Browse]
Uniform title
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • New York : R.H. Russell, [1900]
  • ©1900
Description
1 online resource (6 unnumbered pages, 362 pages, 1 unnumbered page) : illustrations, map, portrait.

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Subject(s)
Illustrator
Series
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood. [More in this series]
Notes
  • Includes a map prepared for this ed. which shows "at a glance the real location of the island," Tobago. ... "I have aimed, not alone to illustrate the story, but to decorate it as a perfect whole from cover to cover ... and now offer the correct rendering of the story both as to type and pictures with the text as it first appeared ..."--Introduction.
  • Variant of Lovett, R.W. Robinson Crusoe, 830. The Lovett copy has col. ill., pub. advertisements on the verso of the half-title (this copy blank), and a different front.
  • Part I of Robinson Crusoe.
  • Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.
Half title
  • Life and adventures of Robinson Crusoe
OCLC
576103266
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