La vie et les aventures surprenantes de Robinson Crusoé : contenant, entre autres événemens, le séjour qu'il, a fait, pendant vingt-huit ans, dans une île déserte, située sur la côte de l'Amérique, près l'embouchure de la grande riviere Oroonoque.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.

Contributor:

Effen, Justus van, 1684-1735, translator.

Saint-Hyacinthe, Thémiseul de, 1684-1746, translator.

Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733, artist.

Cazin, Hubert-Martin, 1724-1795, publisher.

Valade, Marie-Jeanne, active 1784-1798, printer.

Valade, Jean-Jacques-Denis, active 1777-1819, printer.

Edward P. Mally, W'83 and Julia Lang Mally, W'83 Endowment for Rare Books and Manuscripts Collections.

Standardized Title:

Robinson Crusoe. French

Language:

French

Physical Description:

4 v. : ill., fold. map ; 13 cm (12mo)

Fingerprint:

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s.ur eres unis deha (3) 1784 (R) v.2

nest s,is rer- lime (3) 1784 (R) v.3

n.ue use. dee- defo (3) 1784 (R) v.4

Place of Publication:

Londres [i.e. Paris : Printed by Valade’s successors for Hubert-Martin Cazin], MDCCLXXXIV [1784, i.e. 1785]

Notes:

"A translation by Hyacinthe Cordonnier and Justus van Effen, of Robinson Crusoe, parts 1 and 2, by Daniel Defoe."--ESTC.

Subtitle varies: v. 3-4 each has: Contenant son retour dans son isle, & ses autres nouveaux voyages.

Imprint is false; published by Cazin. Cf. frontispiece in first volume (dated 1785) and folded map signed: Edition de Cazin. Printer identified by ESTC.

Signatures: t. 1: pi² a⁴ A-2C⁶ 2D² (leaf 2D2 blank) ; t. 2: pi² A-2C⁶ 2D⁴ ; t. 3: pi² A-2B⁶ (leaf 2B6 blank) ; t. 4: pi² A-2C⁶ 2D².

Pagination: t. 1: [12], 313, 3 p., [5] leaves of plates (1 fold.) ; t. 2: [4], 320 p., [3] leaves of plates ; t. 3: [4], 298, [2] p., [3] leaves of plates ; t. 4: [4], 316 p., [4] leaves of plates.

Plates engraved by C.J.B. Chatelain from designs by Bernard Picart.

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.

RBC copy: v. 3: gathering O bound in after gathering G.

RBC copy: v. 1 has early ms. note on verso of frontispiece plate; v. 3 has early ms. notes on leaves G6v, N6v and O6v explaining the misbinding of gathering O.

RBC copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2018 from Amanda Hall Rare Books.

RBC copy: each vol. has on front pastedown monogram bookplate ("MK").

RBC copy: v. 1 has laid in paper slip with bookseller's printed description (of this copy?) laid in.

RBC copy: each vol. bound in full contemporary mottled calf; boards triple-ruled in bold; gold-ruled cover edges; gold-tooled turn-ins; gold-tooled spine with gold-stamped black morocco spine label ("AVENTURES DE ROBINSON" and volume number); marbled endpapers; all edges gilt; blue silk marker.

Cited in:

ESTC T72297

Rochedieu, C.A. Bibliography of French translations of English works, 1700-1800, p. 79

Cohen, H. Guide de l'amateur de livres à gravures du XVIIIe siècle (6e éd.), 405

OCLC:

23646758