The life and surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, mariner
Subtitle: with an account of his travels round three parts of the globe, written by himself
Contributors: Plumptre, James, 1770-1832, editor; Whymper, Josiah Wood, 1813-1903, engraver; Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731; Cowper, William, 1731-1800, author
Edition: New edition / revised and corrected by the late James Plumptre, B.D., formerly Vicar of Great Gransden, Hunts.
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
Publisher: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
Published: 1850
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 448
Subjects: Robinson Crusoe (Fictitious character); Juvenile fiction; Castaways; Shipwrecks; Shipwreck survival
Other titles: Life of Robinson Crusoe
Work titles: Robinson Crusoe
Notes: Added engraved title page.

"Published under the direction of the Committee of General Literature and Education, appointed by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge."

The Plumptre ed. was first pub. in 1826. Lovett, R.W. Robinson Crusoe, lists two Society eds., an unexamined 1850 ed. (406)--and an 1882 reissue (645). NUC pre-1956 also lists an [1850?] (0118298, v. 136, page 597) and an [1882?] (0118467, v. 136, page 603) edition. The British Museum Defoe catalog lists a [ca. 1850?] ed. None of these descriptions exactly match the copy in hand.

Remainder of imprint: Sold at the depositories: 77, Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields; 4, Royal Exchange; 48, Piccadilly; and by all booksellers.

Some ill. engraved by Whymper.

Introd. includes Cowper's verses and a postscript related to the authorship of Robinson Crusoe.

Parts I and II of Robinson Crusoe, divided into chapters. Part II originally published under title: The farther adventures of Robinson Crusoe.

Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.