Defoe, Daniel

2 volumes, 8vo (7 1/2 x 4 3/4 in.; 190 x 120 mm). Engraved frontispiece in vol 1, engraved folding map in vol 2; fold-tears and another small tear in map neatly mended without loss, occasional light marginal spotting in first vol, first title and preface leaves a bit short at fore-margin, tiny mend in lower outer corner of title vol 2.19th-century calf, triple-fillet border, gold-stamped supralibros of a cock standing on a trumpet encircled by the motto "Vigilantibus," spine gilt, dentelles, edges gilt, in a calf slipcase; rebacked with original spines laid down.

Archibald Acheson, 3rd Earl of Gosford (1806 -1864, with his gold-stamped supralibros) — Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery (1847-1929, his embossed stamp on both titles "The Durdans, Epsom" and his bookplates)

Furbank and Owens 201 & 204; PMM 180; Rothschild 775

fold-tears and another small tear in map neatly mended without loss, occasional light marginal spotting in first vol, first title and preface leaves a bit short at fore-margin, tiny mend in lower outer corner of title vol 2.19th-century calf, triple-fillet border, gold-stamped supralibros of a cock standing on a trumpet encircled by the motto "Vigilantibus," spine gilt, dentelles, edges gilt, in a calf slipcase; rebacked with original spines laid down.
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First edition, first issue of both parts, of this influential novel, which was an immediate success, widely translated, and which inspired a huge number of imitations and adaptations across the world since publication. Rousseau recommended it as the first book which ought to be studied by a growing boy; Coleridge praised its depiction of "the universal man" and Marx used it to illustrate economic theory in action.

A third part was published in 1720, not included here.