DEFOE (Daniel). - Lot 63

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DEFOE (Daniel). - Lot 63
DEFOE (Daniel). The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. In Paris, Chez H. Verdière, Libraire - De l'imprimerie de la Ve Panckoucke, an VIII [1799/1800]. 3 volumes in-8°, half dark green morocco with corners, double gilt fillet bordering the boards, smooth spine decorated, gilt head, not trimmed (pastiche binding). "Translation revised and corrected on the beautiful edition given by Stockdale in 1790 [...] " Three engraved titles with a vignette (different on the three), a portrait and eighteen other plates engraved by DELVAUX after STOTHART; a folded map (at the end of volume III). Stain on the outer edge of volume II; discharges. "Most beautiful edition we have of this translation of the Robinson" (Brunet, II, 566, who notes that this edition originally included only 16 plates, but that two additional ones were added in 1816); Cohen, 406.
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