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The life and surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, mariner : with introductory verses by Bernard Barton ; and illustrated with numerous engravings from drawings by George Cruikshank expressly designed for this edition. Vol. 1 [-2].

Accession number
PML 144023-24
Creator
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
Published
London : Printed at the Shakspeare Press, by W. Nicol, for John Major, Fleet Street, 1831.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Illustrated with 2 steel engraved frontispiece plates by A. Fox and 38 wood engravings by Raddon, Slader, S. Williams, J. Jackson, C. Gorway, T. Williams, and T. Mason after Cruikshank.
Frontispiece engravings printed on india paper and mounted.
Signatures: pi⁸, b⁸, B-Z⁸, 2A-2E⁸, 2F⁴; pi², B-Z⁸, 2A-2C⁸, 2D⁴.
Large paper copy; half-titles.
Preface by John Major (signed "J.M.").
Description
2 v. ([8], xv, [1], 434, [2] p., [1] leaf of plates; [4], 406, [2] p., [1] leaf of plates) : ill. (woodcuts) ; 21 cm.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Publisher's green cloth, printed spine label.
Classification
Department