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 of 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. Written by himself
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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 of 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. Written by himself
- Robinson Crusoe. Part 1
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London : printed for W. Taylor at the Ship in Pater-Noster-Row, MDCCXIX. [1719]
- Publication year
- 1719
- ESTC No.
- T72264
- Grub Street ID
- 295801
- Description
- [4],364,[4]p.,plate ; 8°.
- Note
- In fact by Daniel Defoe
This, the original issue, has a colon after "London" in the imprint, and the catchword on the first page of the preface is "always"
P. 343, line 2, has "Pilate" and line 21 "Portugnese"; variant has "Pilot" and "Portuguese"
With two final advertisement leaves.
- Uncontrolled note
- H. C. Hutchins, 'Robinson Crusoe and its printing, 1719-1731', is not exhaustive on this first edition; the BL copy is a variant unknown to him