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The life and strange surprizing adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, mariner: who lived eight and twenty years, all alone in an un-inhabited island on the coast of America, near the mouth of the great river Oroonoque; having been cast on shore by shipwreck, wherein all the men perished but himself. With an account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by pyrates

Print Book, English, 1719-1720
Printed for W. Taylor .., London, 1719-1720
3 volumes frontispiece, folded plates, folded map 20 cm
15864594
First edition, first issue, variant of [v. 1,3]; first edition, second issue of [v. 2] cf. Hutchins, H.C. Robinson Crusoe and its printing. New York, 1925
Signatures: [v. 1] 2 leaves unsigned, B-Z⁸, Aa⁸ (Aa--, advertisements); [v. 2] A⁴, B-Z⁸, Aa-Bb⁸ (Bb₃, verso, Bb₄, advertisements); [v. 3] A-R⁸, S⁷, Aa-Ee⁸, Ff⁴ (Aa₁₋₄, incorrectly signed A₁₋₄; Ff₄, advertisements)
Bound in red morocco, gilt edges, by F. Bedford
Cf. Clark, W.A. Modern Eng. lit. 1920-28. v. 1, p. 46-50
First edition, first issue, variant
Page 295 incorrectly numbered 215
Cf. Clark, W.A. Modern Eng. lit. 1920-28. v. 1, p. 49
Title within double line border
Page 220, [v. 2], incorrectly numbered 120
Title varies: [v. 2] The farther adventures of Robinson Crusoe; being the second and last part of his life, and of the strange surprizing accounts of his travels round three parts of the globe ...; [v. 3] Serious reflections during the life and surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe: with his Vision of the angelick world ..