Robinson Crusoe
Contributors: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
Publisher: Cassell Petter & Galpin
Published: 1868
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Castaways; Juvenile fiction; Shipwrecks; Shipwreck survival
Other titles: Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Notes: Cover title.

Caption title: Adventures of Robinson Crusoe.

Part I of Robinson Crusoe retold in verse. The verses are the same as those in 'Aunt Louisa's oft told tales, ' attributed to L. Valentine.

Date estimated from several sources. The coin date given below. The publisher's form of name, Cassell, Petter & Galpin, was used from 1858-1878. Cassell's penny library, advertised on the back cover, lists two titles, the second of which, 'Bunyan's Pilgrim's progress' can be dated to 1868.

At head of title: One shilling <in form of coin with date> 1868.

Publisher's advertisement, "Cassell's illustrated children's books" on back cover. Crusoe is listed as 2. in the series, Cassell's shilling toy-books.

Original decorated stiff wrappers.

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