Research Catalog

Title

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 ; profusely illustrated.

Author

Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.

Publication

Philadelphia ; Boston : Hubbard Bros. ; Cincinnati ; Chicago : E. Hannaford & Co. ; San Francisco : A.L. Bancroft & Co. ; New Orleans : Goodwyn & Co., 1872.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hughes, Edward
• Cobb, T.
• Pearson
• Thomas, William Luson, 1830-1900.
• Walsh, Francis
• Williams, Thomas
• Cowper, William, 1731-1800.
• Howell, John, 1788-1863.
• Hubbard Brothers. pbl
• E. Hannaford & Co. pbl
• A.L. Bancroft & Company. pbl
• Goodwyn & Co. pbl

Description

528 p. : ill., port.; 22 cm.

Subject

• Castaways > Juvenile fiction
• Shipwrecks > Juvenile fiction
• Survival at sea > Juvenile fiction

Genre/Form

Imaginary voyages – 1864.

Note

• Spine title: Robinson Cruseo <sic>
• This is a reprint of the text prepared for the Oxford ed. 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.
• Some of the ill. signed Edward Hughes, GHT; some engraved by T. Cobb, Pearson, W. Thomas, F. Walsh, and Williams.
• Cowper's verses, p. 7; "Howell's life of Alexander Selkirk" abridged, p. 519-528.
• Parts I and II of Robinson Crusoe.

Indexed In (note)

• Lovett, R.W. Robinson Crusoe
• NUC pre-1956

Call Number

NCVD (1872) (Defoe, D. Life and strange surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe)

LCCN

06032888

OCLC

2915112

Author

Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.

Title

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 ; profusely illustrated.

Imprint

Philadelphia ; Boston : Hubbard Bros. ; Cincinnati ; Chicago : E. Hannaford & Co. ; San Francisco : A.L. Bancroft & Co. ; New Orleans : Goodwyn & Co., 1872.

Indexed In:

Lovett, R.W. Robinson Crusoe, 558

NUC pre-1956, 0118412 (v. 136, p. 601)

Place of Publication

United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.

United States Massachusetts Suffolk County Boston.

United States Ohio Cincinnaati.

United States Illinois Chicago.

United States California San Francisco.

United States Louisiana New Orleans.

Added Author

Hughes, Edward. Illustrator

Cobb, T. Engraver

Pearson. Engraver

Thomas, William Luson, 1830-1900. Engraver

Walsh, Francis. Engraver

Williams, Thomas. Engraver

Cowper, William, 1731-1800.

Howell, John, 1788-1863. Life of Alexander Selkirk.

Hubbard Brothers. Publisher

E. Hannaford & Co. Publisher

A.L. Bancroft & Company. Publisher

Goodwyn & Co. Publisher

Research Call Number

NCVD (1872) (Defoe, D. Life and strange surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe)