Robinson Crusoe in words of one syllable
By: by Mary Godolphin ...
Contributors: Aikin, Lucy, 1781-1864.; Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.; Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905; Charles Dickens and Evans
Publisher: George Routledge and Sons
Published: 1882
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 161
Subjects: Illustrated children's books -- Specimens; Castaways -- Juvenile fiction; Shipwrecks -- Juvenile fiction; Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc. -- Juvenile fiction
Genres: Specimens.; Juvenile fiction.
Work titles: Robinson Crusoe.
Notes: Date based on English Catalogue of Books and publisher's address.  Cf. Topp, Chester W.  Victorian yellowbacks & paperbacks, v. I.

Mary Godolphin is a pseudonym for Lucy Aikin.  Cf. British Library Public Catalogue.

Publisher's advertisements on t.p. verso. and on p. [1-7] at end entitled: "Catalogue of Toy Books, &c." and "Catalogue of Juvenile Books, &c.".

Colour wood-engraved plates include areas printed in colour with metal.  Plates are unsigned.

According to Ruari McLean, colour plates were printed by Edmund Evans.  Cf. His notes at Massey College Library.

Includes a few wood-engraved decorative head-pieces, tail-pieces and intials.

Plates [4-5] were also used in an 1884 edition of this title published by George Routledge and Sons.  See McLean O 0162.

MASS copy: Bound in light brown fine diagonal rib-grain cloth blocked in black, red and blind with spine title blocked in gold.  Spine with imprint: "Routledge".  With presentation inscription dated 1902.