The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner [&] The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe [&] Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, together 3 vol., first editions, vol. engraved frontispiece, vol. II folding engraved map (split at a fold and laid down), and vol. III folding engraved frontispiece, advertisements at end of each vol., vol. II & III slightly browned, bound in uniform red 20th century morocco, gilt, gilt panelled spines, g.e., by Bedford, [Grolier English 41; Hutchins, pp. 52-71, 97-112, 122-8; Moore 412 & 417; PMM 180; Rothschild 775], 8vo, for W. Taylor 1719-20. *** A very good set of this influential novel. Samuel Taylor Coleridge saw Crusoe as 'the universal representative, the person for whom every reader could substitute himself', and wrote in the margin of his copy that: 'he, who makes me forget my specific class, character, & circumstances raises me into the Universal Man - Now this is Defoe's Excellence, you become a Man while you read'.
The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner [&] The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe [&] Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, together 3 vol., first editions, vol. engraved frontispiece, vol. II folding engraved map (split at a fold and laid down), and vol. III folding engraved frontispiece, advertisements at end of each vol., vol. II & III slightly browned, bound in uniform red 20th century morocco, gilt, gilt panelled spines, g.e., by Bedford, [Grolier English 41; Hutchins, pp. 52-71, 97-112, 122-8; Moore 412 & 417; PMM 180; Rothschild 775], 8vo, for W. Taylor 1719-20. *** A very good set of this influential novel. Samuel Taylor Coleridge saw Crusoe as 'the universal representative, the person for whom every reader could substitute himself', and wrote in the margin of his copy that: 'he, who makes me forget my specific class, character, & circumstances raises me into the Universal Man - Now this is Defoe's Excellence, you become a Man while you read'.
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