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The New Robinson Crusoe : Designed for youth : Ornamented with plates.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Singer-Mendenhall Collection PZ6.C156 Ne 1837
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National Book Committee.
- Children's stories.
- Black people.
- Shipwrecks.
- Castaways.
- New York (N.Y.)--Juvenile fiction.
- New York (N.Y.).
- Castaways--Juvenile literature.
- Survival--Juvenile literature.
- Survival.
- Shipwreck survival--Juvenile literature.
- Shipwreck survival.
- Survival at sea--Juvenile literature.
- Survival at sea.
- Airplane crash survival--Juvenile literature.
- Airplane crash survival.
- Adventure stories.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Shipwrecks--Juvenile fiction.
- Black people--Juvenile fiction.
- Genre:
- Adventure stories.
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Camp, Elizabeth (inscription)
- Physical Description:
- 27 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 14 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cooperstown [N.Y.] : Stereotyped, printed and sold by H. & E. Phinney, 1837.
- Notes:
- Translation of Campe's version of Robinson Crusoe, entitled Robinson der Jüngere. It is mainly an abridgement of Richard Johnson's edition of 1800, but differs in making Crusoe a native of New York; cf. Welch, cited below.
- Last page blank.
- In printed wrapper.
- Wood-engravings signed by John H. Hall. One engraving attributed to Alexander Anderson by Hamilton.
- Allegorical vignette, p. [4] of wrapper, signed by Abel Bowen.
- Cf. Welch, D.A. Amer. children's books, 158.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward P. Mally, W'83 and Julia Lang Mally, W'83 Endowment for Rare Books and Manuscripts Collections.
- Cited in:
- Hamilton, S. Amer. book illustrators (1968 ed.), 783
- OCLC:
- 198299378
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