Beschreibung:

DEFOE, DANIEL]. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner...Written by Himself. 1719; The Farther Adventures...Being the Second and Last Part. 1719; Serious Reflections during the Life and Surprising Adventures...with his vision of the Angelick World. 1720, all London: Printed for W. Taylor 3 vols., 8vo, 192 x 123 mm. (7 9/16 x 4 13/16 in.) and a trifle smaller; disparate bindings: first volume in late nineteenth-century calf gilt, g.e., spine and corners worn; second and third volumes uniform in nineteenth-century tree calf gilt, g.e., by J. Clarke rebacked, board edges and corners worn; first volume with erasure on title, leaves B1, G1, G2, most of signature H and Z1 and Z2 stained, blank portion lost from C4; second volume lacks last two leaves of advertisements B7 and 8; third volume with folding plate torn and repaired in two places and cropped, lacks leaf S8 before p. 270 dividing the parts, and two leaves of advertisements at end, a few blank corners restored. FIRST EDITIONS with the following points: vol. I: colon after "London" in imprint; A2 with catchword "apply" on recto correctly repeated on verso; Z4r with correct spellings of "Pilot" and "Portuguese" in lines 2 and 21 respectively and of the line-endings in lines 9-12; vol. II: verso of A4 blank; "Farthfr" on B1; p. 295 correctly numbered; uniform page numbers; vol. III: "w" in "know" on p. 73, line 13 slightly above the line; I2 cancelled; "way with a" on p. 170, line 1; asterisk under "out" at foot of p. 194; no catchword on p. 253. Engraved portrait frontispiece by Clark and Pine in vol. I, engraved folding map in vol. II, engraved folding plate of Robinson Crusoe's Island by Clark and Pine in vol. III. Hutchins 52, 97 and 112; Moore 412; 417 and 436; PMM 180; Rothschild 775. (3)