The Swiss family Robinson, or, Adventures of a father and mother and four sons on a desert island : the progress of the story forming a clear illustration of the first principles of natural history, and many branches of science which most immediately apply to the business of life ... : in two volumes. Vol. I[-II].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wyss, Johann David, 1743-1818, author.

Contributor:

Gimber, Stephen H., 1810-1862, engraver.

Dick, Archibald L., approximately 1805-approximately 1855, engraver.

Miller, printer of plates.

J. & J. Harper, Printers, publisher, printer.

Series:

Boy's and girl's library ; no. 2-3.

Boy's and girl's library of useful and entertaining knowledge ; no. II-III

Standardized Title:

Schweizerische Robinson. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

St. Thomas' Church (New York, N.Y.).

St. Luke's Church (New York, N.Y.).

Shipwrecks--Juvenile fiction.

Shipwrecks.

Families--Juvenile fiction.

Families.

Animals--Juvenile fiction.

Animals.

Nature stories.

Natural history.

Genre:

Fiction.

Juvenile works.

Publishers' advertisements.

Penn Provenance:

Shriver, John A. (autograph) (inscription) (Singer-Mendenhall copy)

Physical Description:

2 volumes ; 16 cm

Edition:

Harper's stereotype edition / from the seventh London edition ; greatly improved.

Other Title:

Swiss family Robinson

Adventures of a father and mother and four sons on a desert island

Boy's and girl's library of useful and entertaining knowledge. No. I[-II]

Place of Publication:

New-York : Printed and published by J. & J. Harper, no. 82 Cliff-Street, and sold by the principal booksellers throughout the United States, 1832.

Language Note:

English translation of: Schweizerische Robinson.

Contents:

Volume I. Advertisement to the second and third numbers of the Boy's and girl's library / J. & J. Harper ; [Publisher's advertisement and series prospectus] ; The Swiss family Robinson [chapters 1-15]

volume II. The Swiss family Robinson [chapters 16-32] ; Postscript by the editor.

Notes:

Written by Johann David Wyss. See Checklist Amer. imprints

"Harper's stereotype edition" at head of letterpress title leaf; "From the seventh London edition. Greatly improved" immediately precedes the volume statement.

Pagination: volume 1: 239, [1] pages, [2] leaves of plates; volume 2: 262 pages, [2] leaves of plates.

Each volume has 2 plates engraved on metal: a frontispiece with two illustrations and an added illustrated title leaf. Added engraved title leaf of each volume signed: Gimber & Dick Sculpt. Miller Printd.

Each volume bound as issued in printed (volume number, series title, and imprint on left board; publisher's advertisements on right board; brief series title and series volume number and brief title of work and work volume number on spine) and illustrated (volume 1: wood engraving of "St. Thomas' Church, Broadway, N.Y."; volume 2: wood engraving of "St. Luke's Church, Hudson St. N.Y.") cloth boards.

"The story in this work is about a clergyman, who left Switzerland to go, by the way of England, as a missionary or preacher to the island of Otaheite, and took with him his family, consisting of his wife and four sons."--Advertisement, p. 11-[12], signed: J. & J. Harper. Includes some dialogues.

Local Notes:

Singer-Mendenhall copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2021 at auction from Heritage Auctions (sale 6234, lot 45315).

Singer-Mendenhall copy: volume 1 has autograph ("J.A. Shriver") on left board; volume 2 has autograph ("JA Shriver") on left board, front free endpaper and verso of frontispiece plate, manuscript inscriptions ("J.A. Shriver Shr" and "John A. Shrivers") in pencil on front free endpaper, and manuscript inscription ("J.A Sh") in pencil on verso of frontispiece plate.

Singer-Mendenhall copy: volume 1 has manuscript gift inscription ("John. A Shriver from his Uncle Joseph") on front free endpaper; volume 2 has dated 19th-century manuscript gift inscription ("John A. Shriver Decr 25th 1832 from his Uncle Joseph") on front free endpaper.

Cited in:

Checklist Amer. imprints 17175

OCLC:

83079811