The wonderful life and most surprizing adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, mariner : containing a full and particular account of the loss of his ship in a storm, when all his companions were drowned, and he only escaped by being cast on shore by the wreck : also, of the extraordinary manner in which he lived eight-and-twenty years in an uninhabited island on the coast of America : with a true relation how he was at last miraculously delivered by pirates : faithfully abridged from the three volumes, and adorned with an entire new set of cuts, illustrative of the most remarkable stories, from drawings done on purpose for this edition

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The wonderful life and most surprizing adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, mariner : containing a full and particular account of the loss of his ship in a storm, when all his companions were drowned, and he only escaped by being cast on shore by the wreck : also, of the extraordinary manner in which he lived eight-and-twenty years in an uninhabited island on the coast of America : with a true relation how he was at last miraculously delivered by pirates : faithfully abridged from the three volumes, and adorned with an entire new set of cuts, illustrative of the most remarkable stories, from drawings done on purpose for this edition

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containing a full and particular account of the loss of his ship in a storm, when all his companions were drowned, and he only escaped by being cast on shore by the wreck : also, of the extraordinary manner in which he lived eight-and-twenty years in an uninhabited island on the coast of America : with a true relation how he was at last miraculously delivered by pirates : faithfully abridged from the three volumes, and adorned with an entire new set of cuts, illustrative of the most remarkable stories, from drawings done on purpose for this edition

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• The wonderful life and most surprizing adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, mariner : containing a full and particular account of the loss of his ship in a storm, when all his companions were drowned, and he only escaped by being cast on shore by the wreck : also, of the extraordinary manner in which he lived eight-and-twenty years in an uninhabited island on the coast of America : with a true relation how he was at last miraculously delivered by pirates : faithfully abridged from the three volumes, and adorned with an entire new set of cuts, illustrative of the most remarkable stories, from drawings done on purpose for this edition

Publication

• London, Printed for J. Bew, No. 28, Pater-Noster-Row, 1780

Note

• Abridged
• Caption title: The life and adventures of Robinson Crusoe
• Woodcuts: frontispiece; text illustrations
• Includes preface
• "Farther adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Vol. II": p. [74]-118
• "Robinson Crusoe's vision of the angelic world. Vol. III": p. [119]-132
• Cf. Osborne Coll., p. 244-246; 875-877
• Cf. Gumuchian, 4793-4872

Dimensions

16 cm.

Extent

132 p.

Note

• Light brown linen cloth over boards. In brown and burnt orange marbled case.
• Ex libris d'Alté Welch.
• Inscription dated 1807 on upper paste-down.

Other physical details

ill.

Record ID

1218672

System control number

• (OCoLC)06391502
• ucoclc6391502