The Robinson Crusoe picture book
Subtitle: containing Robinson Crusoe, How Cock Sparrow kept his Christmas, Queer characters, Æsop's fables
By: with twenty-four pages of illustrations ; printed in colours by Kronheim.
Contributors: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.; Kronheim & Co.
Publisher: George Routledge and Sons
Published: 1874
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: Illustrated children's books -- Specimens.; Fairy tales.; Nursery rhymes.
Genres: Specimens.
Notes: Date taken from British Library Public Catalogue.

T.p. printed within thin black rule border.  Publisher's device printed on t.p.

Most colour wood-engraved plates are unsigned and without imprint.  Plates in the story "Queer Characters" are with signature: "GU".  Plates include areas printed in colour with metal.

Leaves in the story "How Cock Sparrow kept his Christmas" are the same as those used in an edition of this story published separately in [1873] in the series "Routledge's shilling toy books" by George Routledge & Sons.  See McLean T 0038.

MASS copy: Bound in green sand-grain cloth blocked in gold, black and blind.  Upper cover blocked in gold and black with illustration replicated from the text.
Table of contents: value: Robinson Crusoe; value: How Cock Sparrow kept his Christmas; value: Queer characters; value: Æsop's fables.