Daniel Defoe - La vie et les aventures surprenantes de Robinson Crusoé + Aventures de Robinson Crusoë - 1789

1. The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, including his return to his island, his other new voyages and reflections - Avignon, Bonnet Brothers, 1789 - 347; 324 pp. - half-leather bindings - 18 x 11 cm

Fair. Scuffing and bumps. Text blocks discoloured, with occasional spots. A few dog-eared pages, small corner loss on about 10 pages. A few pages roughly trimmed. A couple of gatherings are coming loose at the top or bottom.
Vol. 1: Right joint open and fragile; left joint open for about 4 cm at the top. Last page glued to the endpaper.
Last 6 pages stained.
Vol. 2: Left joint open and fragile; title page coming loose at the bottom; gathering (pages 179 to 182) coming loose at the top.

2. Adventures of Robinson Crusoe - Paris, d'Alex Eymery, 1822 - 2 vols. - 340; 436 pp. - half-leather bindings - 17 x 10 cm

Good. Scuffing and bumps to the bindings. Text blocks discoloured, with occasional spots and foxing. A few dog-eared pages. Small tears, 0.5 to 1 cm, in the margins of six leaves. Fore-edge of three leaves slightly frayed. Small losses from the margins of four leaves.
Vol. 1: No endpapers. Scribbles on the pastedown. Hole and tear on pages 1/2; brown paper tape vertically along the right side over the text on page 2 and along the left side over the text on page 23. Last contents page coming loose, large damp stain; brown stain in the middle of the contents pages.
Vol. 2: Damp stains in the inner margin of the pastedown, endpaper and title page; damp streak in the inner margin of pages 145 to 163. Ink scribbles on the verso of the last contents page; loss to the upper corner (with loss of text) of leaf 375/376.

Contains “28 new engraving subjects”: 2 frontispieces, two title vignettes and 24 engravings (on 12 leaves) - all illustrated.

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