The life and strange surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, mariner
By: now first correctly reprinted from the original edition of 1719 ; with an introduction, giving a new history of Defoe's masterpiece, by William Lee, Esq., editor of "The newly discovered writings of Daniel Defoe" ; nearly one hundred original illustrations by Ernest Griset
Contributors: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731; Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731; Lee, William, editor; Griset, Ernest Henry, 1844-1907, illustrator
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
Publisher: John Camden Hotten
Published: 1869
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 517
Subjects: Robinson Crusoe (Fictitious character); Juvenile fiction; Castaways; Shipwrecks; Shipwreck survival
Work titles: Robinson Crusoe
Notes: "Reissue" of Warne's 1869 ed. (cf. Lovett) but preliminaries this vol. are in different order and have a slightly different pagination.

With 12 page introduction by Lee, "the most comprehensive and exhaustive account of Defore and his works to date ... [which] helped spark an enormous interest in Crusoe and Selkirk that lasted for the rest of the century" (Lovett, p. 138).

Illustrations: Hand-colored engraved frontis. ("Crusoe & Friday on expedition") and title page vignette, with 23 engraved plates and approximately 80 smaller illustrations throughout the text, most signed by Griset; "ornamental head-pieces and initial-letters are exact facsimiles of those used in the First Edition" (note facing page [1]).

Dated (page xvi): "1869."

Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.
Table of contents: title: Life and strange surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe; title: Farther adventures of Robinson Crusoe.