Daniel Defoe | The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe..., London, 1719, contemporary calf

From the Library of Clayre and Jay Michael Haft

Daniel Defoe

The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Being the Second and Last Part of his Life. London: W. Taylor, 1719

FIRST EDITION, 8vo (194 x 116mm.), a few minor pencil annotations in a later hand, contemporary calf, rebacked retaining original spine, lacking folding map, extremities slightly browned, slight worming at upper margin of a few leaves (not affecting text), extremities rubbed

First edition of the second part of one of the most widely-published novels of all time, this copy including the 6 leaves of publisher's advertisements bound at the end. Seven editions appeared within Defoe's lifetime, together with numerous piracies and abridgements.

LITERATURE:

Hutchins, p. 97; Furbank & Owens 204; Moore 417

PROVENANCE:

"Harry Shooter, Osbourne St., Annesley Woodh[ous]e, Notts": ownership inscription to rear free endpaper