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The life and surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, mariner : with an account of his travels round three parts of the globe, written by himself.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731, author.
- Cowper, William, 1731-1800, author.
- Series:
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood.
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
- Standardized Title:
- Robinson Crusoe
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Crusoe, Robinson (Fictitious character)--Juvenile fiction.
- Crusoe, Robinson.
- Crusoe, Robinson (Fictitious character).
- Castaways--Juvenile fiction.
- Castaways.
- Shipwrecks--Juvenile fiction.
- Shipwrecks.
- Shipwreck survival--Juvenile fiction.
- Shipwreck survival.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxiv, 448 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- New edition / revised and corrected by the late James Plumptre, B.D., formerly Vicar of Great Gransden, Hunts.
- Other Title:
- Half title: Life of Robinson Crusoe
- Place of Publication:
- London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, [between 1850 and 1859]
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- Added engraved title page.
- "Published under the direction of the Committee of General Literature and Education, appointed by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge."
- The Plumptre edition was first publishing in 1826. Lovett, R.W. Robinson Crusoe, lists two Society editions., an unexamined 1850 edition (406)--and an 1882 reissue (645). NUC pre-1956 also lists an [1850?] (0118298, volume 136, page 597) and an [1882?] (0118467, volume 136, page 603) edition. The British Museum Defoe catalog lists a [circa 1850?] edition None of these descriptions exactly match the copy in hand.
- Remainder of imprint: Sold at the depositories: 77, Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields; 4, Royal Exchange; 48, Piccadilly; and by all booksellers.
- Some illustrations engraved by Whymper.
- Introd. includes Cowper's verses and a postscript related to the authorship of Robinson Crusoe.
- Parts I and II of Robinson Crusoe, divided into chapters. Part II originally published under title: The farther adventures of Robinson Crusoe.
- Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.
- Contains:
- Cowper, William, 1731-1800, author.
- OCLC:
- 905336969
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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