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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. | Septr 29th 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 (2E8-10 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. -
Pagination: [2] – letterpress title / blank, t.p. with contents / to readers, [1] 2-376 + 7 b/w and 16 coloured plates (total 23); this differs to Abbey’s description of 372 pages + 4 pages index, and 41 plates (lacking 18 plates). In No 73 lacking 3 plates: Quadrant Regent st., Morning dress and Full dress. In No 74 lacking 5 plates: Charles str., Brienz, head dresses, full dress, and muslin patterns. In No 75 lacking 5 plates: 4 with bank notes and Castle of Rinkenberg. In No 76 lacking 1 plate: Cavern St. Beat. In No 77 lacking 2 plates: Wetzar and Lake Thun. In No 78 lacking 2 plates: Crescent at Portland Place and Environs of Thun. Collation: 4to; letterpress title, [A]1 B-Z4 Aa-Zz4 3A-3C4 3D2. Binding: 23.5 x 15.5 cm; double fillet blind-ruled half-calf over pebbled cloth boards, raised bands ruled blind, crimson label with gilt lettering to spine. References: Martin Hardie (1906), p.310 [LIB-2623.2021]; R. V. Tooley (1935), p. 26 [LIB-2641.2021]; J. R. Abbey (1953), Cat. № 212, p. 174 [LIB-2622.2021]. -
Pagination: [2] – letterpress title / blank, t.p. contents / to readers, [1] 2-368 [4 index], + 6 b/w (one folding) and 28 coloured plates (total 34). Collation: 4to; letterpress title, [A]1 B-Z4 Aa-Zz4 3A-3B4 3C3. Binding: 25 x 16 cm; gilt-ruled half-calf over marbled boards, flat spine, gilt-ruled compartments, gilt lettering. 5 aquatints by Thomas Rowlandson (British, 1757 – 1827): Table D'Hote; Consulting the Prophet; The Prophet discovering himself and exposing the deception; The Arrival in Paris; Liberality to infirm beggars on leaving Yrvi. References: Martin Hardie (1906), p.310 [LIB-2623.2021]; R. V. Tooley (1935), p. 26 [LIB-2641.2021]; J. R. Abbey (1953), Cat. № 212, p. 167 [LIB-2622.2021]. -
Pagination: [2] – letterpress title / blank, [2] – t.p. contents / to readers, [1] 2-368 [4 index], + 9 b/w and 27 coloured plates. Collation: 4to; letterpress title, [A]1 B-Z4 Aa-Zz4 3A-3B4 3C3. Binding: 25 x 16 cm; gilt-ruled half-calf over marbled boards, flat spine, gilt-ruled compartments, gilt lettering; front board almost detached. References: Martin Hardie (1906), p.310 [LIB-2623.2021]; R. V. Tooley (1935), p. 26 [LIB-2641.2021]; J. R. Abbey (1953), Cat. № 212, p. 166 [LIB-2622.2021].
