Property From The Collection of Robert S Pirie Volumes I & II: Books and Manuscripts

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Lot 890
  • 890

Defoe, Daniel

Estimate
800 - 1,200 USD
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Description

  • Defoe, Daniel
  • The Life and Strange Suprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner. London, John Stockdale, 1790
  • Ink, paper and cow
Two volumes 8vo (9 1/4 x 5 1/2 in.; 234 x 143 mm). Two engraved frontispieces, titles with vignettes and twelve plates after Stothard by Medland, portrait of the author prior to Life of Defoe; spotting and foxing, plates offsetting. Early nineteenth-century English binding, red morocco, gilt floral, Greek and serrated roll-stamps on panels, Thomas Hutton gilt arms and special decorative tools (ship) on spine, title and volume number labels in green morocco; spine very lightly faded. 

Provenance

Thomas Hutton (armorial binding and bookplate). acquisition: Bernard Quaritch, 2010

Catalogue Note

Thomas Hutton's copy with his gilt arms on spine.