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DEFOE, Daniel.

The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner, as Related by Himself [Fore-Edge Painting].

“IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO BE WISE": FINELY BOUND EXAMPLE OF DANIEL DEFOE'S CLASSIC TALE OF ADVENTURE: ROBINSON CRUSOE; FINELY BOUND WITH A FORE-EDGE PAINTING

London, Paris, New York & Melbourne: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1905.

$1,600.00
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* Custom Clamshell Boxes are hand made by the Harcourt Bindery upon request and take approximately 60 days to complete
Finley bound example of Defoe’s classic tale of adventure. Octavo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, gilt ruling to the endpapers, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt with a fore-edge painting of a scene from the novel. With one hundred twenty original illustrations by Walter Paget. In near fine condition with the original cloth cover adhered to the front pastedown.
"Robinson Crusoe is the most popular, delightful, and extraordinary of all Defoe's Works, and has lost none of its original attraction. Dr. Johnson observed, `nobody ever laid it down without wishing it were longer'" (Lowndes, 613-14).
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