The life and strange surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, mariner, as related by himself
By: by Daniel De Foe ; with an autobiographical memoir of the author ; and a life of Alexander Selkirk, by whose residence on the island of Juan Fernandez the work was suggested
Contributors: Hughes, Edward, illustrator; Cobb, T., engraver; Pearson, engraver; Thomas, William Luson, 1830-1900, engraver; Walsh, Francis, engraver; Williams, Thomas, engraver; Cowper, William, 1731-1800, author; Howell, John, 1788-1863
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
Publisher: Hubbard Brothers
Published: 1872
Place of publication: Phila
Language: eng
Number of pages: 528
Subjects: Robinson Crusoe (Fictitious character); Fiction; Shipwreck survival; Castaways; Islands
Work titles: Robinson Crusoe
Notes: This is a reprint of the text prepared for the Oxford ed. of De Foe's miscellaneous works, 1839, and "carefully compared with a copyright edition printed at Edinburgh in 1846, and several slight errors corrected. ... It is believed that the edition here presented is the most perfect in existence."--Page 33.

Some of the ill. signed Edward Hughes, GHT; some engraved by T. Cobb, Pearson, W. Thomas, F. Walsh, and Williams.

Cowper's verses, page 7; "Howell's life of Alexander Selkirk" abridged, pages 519-528.

Parts I and II of Robinson Crusoe.

"Profusely illustrated."

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