The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner; The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; with The Life of Daniel Defoe by George Chalmers.
DEFOE, (Daniel).
14 plates and 2 title vignettes by Thomas Stothard, engraved by Medway and one portrait engraved by Medway. First Stockdale edition and the first with engraved plates by Thomas Stothard. Two volumes. 8vo., a very handsome copy in contemporary mottled calf, gilt tooled borders round sides, spines decorated in gilt with elaborate bands and anchor device, red morocco and gilt spine labels, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, some slight scuffing, headcaps and corners rubbed and bumped, bery occasional browning, otherwise a very good, attractive copy. London, John Stockdale. 1790
The first appearance of Stothard's engravings, of which this copy has very good, clean impressions. The first Stockdale edition also provides the reader with the first appearance in print of George Chalmers's Life of Daniel Defoe and a list of Daniel Defoe's writings.
Thomas Stothard, known for the beauty, invention, textual sympathy and spirit of his illustrations, reached a new level with these illustrations for Robinson Crusoe. They are considered to be among his most important, so much so that they were re-engraved by C. Heath and published by Cadell thirty years later.
Booklabels of Henry Yorke and Georg Schackne.
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