Accession number
PML 142889
Creator
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
Published
London : George Routledge & Sons ..., 1869.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
"Memoir of De Foe": p. xiii-xx.
Frontispiece portrait of the author.
"London: R. Clay, Son, and Taylor, printers."--Colophon.
Frontispiece portrait of the author.
"London: R. Clay, Son, and Taylor, printers."--Colophon.
Description
xx, 497 p. : ill. (wood engravings), port. ; 24 cm.
Provenance
Bookplate of J.N. Hart with motto "Bound to be read"; from the libraries of Forrest Reid, J.N. Hart, and Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Publisher's purple cloth blocked in gold and blind, signed "JL" (i.e. John Leighton); this is the same design used for the binding of the 1864 edition of Robinson Crusoe with Watson's illustrations (see Edmund M.B. King, Victorian decorated trade bindings, entry no. 435).
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