An early set of 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Robinson Crusoe, the realist𒆙 novel that transformed English literature, with the first volume a second edition and the s🅺econd volume a first edition..

• Sold as a set of 2 volumes.
• Daniel Defoe (English).
• The life and strange surprizing adventures of Robinson Crusoe, or York, Mariner: Who lived eight and twenty Year all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, where-in all the Men perished but himself. With an ACCOUNT of how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates. with 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.
• London: Printed for W. Taylor at the Ship in Pater-Noster-Row, 1719.
• Octavos.
• Volume I with engraved frontispiece by Clark & Pine (mounted on stub), volume II with additional frontispiece, and engraved folding map bound at rear.
• Full speckled period-style calf, raised bands, elaborately gilt-stamped spine, red and black goatskin spine labels, red speckled edges.
• Envelope with 1908 purchase details of previous owner and complimentary documentation laid in.

"Defoe [...] expressed the diverse elements of individu🍌alism more completely than any previous writer, and his worไk offers a unique demonstration of the connection between individualism in its many forms and the rise of the novel." – Ian Watt

Based in part on the celebrated narrative of castaway Alexander Selkirk, Defoe's novel is an adventure set in the New World that describes Crusoe developing self-reliant virtues in order to survive. Crusoe has become a modern mythic figure in the West: he is a hero of economic individualism on a modern Odyssey, born during the rise of English capitalism. Both entertaining and morally uplifting, the book represented an ideal formula in the early years of realist fiction; Robinson Crusoe soon became an international bestseller, with more translations than any work except the Bible, and established a path for future novelists in the growing market for realist literature that matured in 18th-century England꧑. It is often described as one of the earli🌜est novels in English.

First published in April of 1719, Crusoe proved so popular that Defoe quickly published a sequel, The Farther Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe, in August of 1719 (here in the first edition, with the May 1719 second edition of the first part). In 1720, he added a series of essays, Serious Reflections During The Life And Surprising Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe, which is not typically printed with the main narrative of parts I and II today. This set has two copies of the famous frontispiece portra♊it of Robins🌠on Crusoe, so iconic that, no matter the edition, "we always look for it and are disappointed when we do not find it" (A Edward Newton).

Rare in any early edition, m🌞agnificently bound in the style of the p♑eriod.