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An abridgement of the new Robinson Crusoe : an instructive and entertaining history, for the use of children of both sexes / translated from the French ; embellished with thirty-two beautiful cuts.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Singer-Mendenhall Collection PT1832.C8 R6 1789
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Campe, Joachim Heinrich, 1746-1818, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Robinson der Jüngere. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Voyages, Imaginary--Juvenile fiction--Early works to 1800.
- Voyages, Imaginary.
- Shipwrecks--Juvenile fiction--Early works to 1800.
- Shipwrecks.
- Survival--Juvenile fiction--Early works to 1800.
- Survival.
- Genre:
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Parker, Mary, approximately 1801-1873 (autograph) (Singer-Mendenhall copy)
- Howell, William P. (William Parker), 1824-1910 (autograph) (Singer-Mendenhall copy)
- Howell, Rosalie, approximately 1862-1936 (autograph) (Singer-Mendenhall copy)
- Physical Description:
- [2], iv, [1], 6-183, [7] pages : illustrations ; 18 cm (12mo)
- Fingerprint:
- chhe ofbe n.id wafo (3) 1789 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for John Stockdale, opposite Burlington House, Piccadilly, MDCCLXXXIX [1789]
- Language Note:
- "French translation entitled 'Le nouveau Robinson'. This is a free translation from the French."--ESTC.
- Notes:
- "The author is named in the preface as Mr. Campe, i.e. Joachim Heinrich Campe."--ESTC.
- Signatures: A⁶(±A1) B-Q⁶. "Title page is a cancel."--ESTC.
- Woodcut illustrations by John Bewick. See ESTC.
- "[Price two shillings and sixpence bound.] Entered at Stationers' Hall."--Title leaf.
- Bookseller's advertisements: Pages [184]-[190].
- Local Notes:
- Singer-Mendenhall copy: the word "two" in price effaced and replaced with a manuscript "3" on title leaf.
- Singer-Mendenhall copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2021 at auction from Heritage Auctions (sale 6234, lot 45315).
- Singer-Mendenhall copy has autograph ("Mary Parker") of Mary Parker (ca. 1801-1873) on front free endpaper; dated 19th-century autograph ("Wm P Howell 1833"), Mary Parker's nephew William Parker Howell (1824-1910) of Myrdin, Carmarthenshire, Wales, on front free endpaper; dated 19th-century autograph ("Rosalie Howell. Penrheol April 25th: 1885.") of William Howell's daughter Rosalie Howell (ca. 1862-1936) on front free endpaper.
- Cited in:
- ESTC T153079
- Opie A 221
- OCLC:
- 23623190
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