The life and strange surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, mariner, :
as related by himself /
by Daniel De Foe ; with an autobiographical memoir of the author and a Life of Alexander Selkirk, by whose residence on the island of Juan Fernandez the work was suggested.

Description

Main Author

Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.

Related Names

Williams, George Seth, former owner.
Howell, John, 1788-1863.
Selkirk, Alexander, 1676-1721.
Edgewood Publishing Co.
Hubbard Bros.

Language(s)

English

Published

[Philadelphia] : Edgewood Publishing Company, 1872.

Subjects

Crusoe, Robinson > Crusoe, Robinson / (Fictitious character) > Crusoe, Robinson / (Fictitious character) / Juvenile literature.
Voyages, Imaginary > Voyages, Imaginary / Juvenile literature.
Survival > Survival / Juvenile literature.
Adventure and adventurers > Adventure and adventurers / Juvenile literature.
Castaways > Castaways / Juvenile literature.
Juan Fernández Islands.
Juvenile literature.
Imaginary voyages.

Note

Some of the illustrations are signed: Edward Hughes, GHT, and F. Wentworth; some are engraved by T. Cobb, Pearson, W. Thomas, F. Walsh, Rea, and Williams.
"Profusely illustrated."
Parts I and II of Robinson Crusoe.
Cowper's verses: p. 7. "Howell's life of Alexander Selkirk" abridged, p. 519-528.
This is a reprint of the text prepared for the Oxford edition of De Foe's miscellaneous works, 1839, and "carefully compared with a copyright edition printed at Edinburgh in 1846, and several slight errors corrected. ... It is believed that the edition here presented is the most perfect in existence."--P. 33.
"Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872, by Hubbard Brothers ..."--Title page verso.

Physical Description

528 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

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