The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Embellished with Engravings from Designs by Thomas Stothard, Esq.

Finely bound example of Thomas Stothard’s beautifully illustrated edition of Defoe’s classic tale of adventure. Royal octavo, two volumes bound in full crushed levant emerald green morocco by Chambolle-Duru 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 stamp-signed by Chambolle-Duru, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, ribbon bound in, illustrated with engraved frontispieces, vignette title pages and 22 full-page illustrations by Thomas Stothard. Provenance: armorial bookplate of M.C.D. Borden to the pastedown of each volume. In very good condition. A very nice example.