DEFOE, DANIEL. 1660-1731. Aventures de Robinson Crusoe. Paris: H. Fournier Ainé, 1840. 8vo (250 x 158 mm). Half-title, wood-engraved frontispiece and 40 plates, and numerous wood-engraved illustrations in text. Contemporary half green morocco and marbled boards, spine ornately gilt, marbled endpapers, publisher's wrappers bound in. Spine sunned, wrappers slightly soiled, minor spotting. Provenance: Cortlandt Bishop (booklabel), Mary S. Collins (bookplate). FIRST EDITION THUS, newly translated into French (without a credit for the translator), and illustrated with wood-engravings after Grandville. Known for his caricatures, which were often political in context, Grandville faced censorship in the mid-1830s, and turned primarily to book illustration during the last years of his life. Carteret III, 241.
DEFOE, DANIEL. 1660-1731. Aventures de Robinson Crusoe. Paris: H. Fournier Ainé, 1840. 8vo (250 x 158 mm). Half-title, wood-engraved frontispiece and 40 plates, and numerous wood-engraved illustrations in text. Contemporary half green morocco and marbled boards, spine ornately gilt, marbled endpapers, publisher's wrappers bound in. Spine sunned, wrappers slightly soiled, minor spotting. Provenance: Cortlandt Bishop (booklabel), Mary S. Collins (bookplate). FIRST EDITION THUS, newly translated into French (without a credit for the translator), and illustrated with wood-engravings after Grandville. Known for his caricatures, which were often political in context, Grandville faced censorship in the mid-1830s, and turned primarily to book illustration during the last years of his life. Carteret III, 241.
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