Description: 12mo, full calf, 12.9 x 7.4 cm, boards chain-bordered in gilt, front board gilt-lettered with the name of the owner “T. D. TOWNSEND”, flat spine, adorned in gilt, black label with gilt lettering, red endpapers, bookstore ticket to front pastedown: SOLD BY | ASH & MASON, | 139 Chesnut st.; ink ms inscription to ffep: Presented to | T. D. Townsend by | Mrs. Rebecca Cole of Burlington, N. Y. | Sept^r 29^th 1827.

Note: Ash & Mason bookstore and printing house in Philadelphia, PA.

Engraved title-page: THE | LIFE & ADVENTURES | OF | Robinson Crusoe | Written | BY HIMSELF. | {vignette by C. Warren after T. Uwins, inscribed “Robinson on his periagua, making the circuit of his island”} | LONDON. | J. Walker & the other Proprietors | 1818. ||

Frontispiece: seated portrait of Robinson Crusoe in his bungalow with a dog and a cat by C. Warren after T. Uwins, inscribed below: ROBINSON CRUSOE | surrounded by his domestics || under the frame: T. Uwins del — C. Warren sculp.; beneath: London. Pub. by Walker & the other Proprietors ||

Title-page: THE | LIFE & ADVENTURES | OF | ROBINSON CRUSOE; | WRITTEN BY HIMSELF. | — | LONDON: | Printed for J. Walker; | 8 lines of names… and B. Reynolds. | 1818. ||

Collation: A⁶ (A₁ torn out, A₂ blank), B-Z¹², 2A-2D¹², 2E¹⁰ (2E_8-10 blank); total 328 leaves plus two plates (engraved frontispiece and engraved title).

Pagination: [2 torn out] [2 blank], [i-iii] iv-vi [2 blank] [1] 2-638 [6 blank]; total 656 pages, ill.

Contributors:

Daniel Defoe [Daniel De Foe] (British, 1660 – 1731) – author.

Thomas Uwins (British, 1782 – 1857) – artist.

Charles Warren (British, 1762 – 1823) – engraver.

J Walker & Co. [Walker & Edwards] (London) – publisher.

Ellerton and Henderson, Printers (London) – printer.