Life and adventures of Robinson Crusoe.

Description

Main Author: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
Related Names: Rusher, John Golby, 1784-1877.
Branston, Allen Robert, 1778-1827.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
Language(s): English
Published: Banbury : Printed by J.G. Rusher, [ca. 1840?]
Subjects: Chapbooks > Chapbooks / Specimens.
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Note: Includes 7 woodcuts.
First sentence: "Robinson Crusoe was born of a respectable family in York, where his father, a native of Bremen, had settled; having by merchandise obtained a fortune."
The six illustrations are included in Pearson, according to whom they were "designed by [George] Cruikshank, engraved by Dranston [sic; i.e. A.R. Branston]"; a seventh engraving of a two-masted ship, printed below the caption title, is not the same as the one reproduced in Pearson.
Date from Osborne Coll., see citation below.
Caption title, p. [1]; imprint at foot of page.
A retelling of: Robinson Crusoe / Daniel Defoe.
Physical Description: 16 p. : ill. (wood engravings) ; 10 x 7 cm.
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