The Life and adventures of Robinson Crusoe
By: by Daniel Defoe ; with ten full-page colored plates and fifty-two wood engravings by J.D. Watson
Contributors: Watson, John Dawson, 1832-1892, illustrator; Tugwell, Ernest H.; Dalziel Brothers
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
Publisher: George Routledge and Sons
Published: 1890
Place of publication: London (Broadway House, Ludgate Hill)
Language: eng
Number of pages: 566
Subjects: Castaways; Juvenile fiction; Shipwrecks; Shipwreck survival
Other titles: Robinson Crusoe
Work titles: Robinson Crusoe
Notes: Date estimated from several sources. Routledge used the term 'Limited' after 1889. The publisher's catalogue of 'new books' (<9> p.)--at end begins with a work "containing the latest information to the end of 1897." NUC pre-1956 lists two editions (1893? and 1901) which match this description.

Some ill. engraved by Dalziel.

In the publisher's catalog (p. <9>), Robinson Crusoe is listed in Routledge's 3s. 6d. prize series: "4. ... With 52 illustrations by J.D. Watson, and six coloured plates printed by Kronheim."

"Memoir of De Foe": p. [xv]-xxvi.

"Crusoe's Island" <a map> designed and drawn by Ernest H. Tugwell, on 1 folded leaf, after p. xxvi.

Col. front. and half title page included in the pre-paging. All black and white plates are included in the pagination except that at pages 118-119.

Parts I and II of Robinson Crusoe.

Engraved title page.

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