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Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe. James Ballantyne, 1810.
Price: US$180.36 + shipping
Description: New Edition 1810. Triple volume set With a Biographical Memoir of Defoe. Printed in Edinburgh. Illustrated with woodcuts. Three volumes bound in a Georgian contemporary three quarter leather binding. Books are good++ and quite bright. Edge rubbing. Surface rubbing to marbled boards with some slight loss. Nice tight hinges. Creasing to leather spines. Contents quite good with light age toning to pages. More images can be taken upon request.Ref 16229
Seller: Lasting Words Ltd, Northampton, UK, United Kingdom
Price: US$966.20 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Woodcut vignette on part titles of vols. 1-3 and woodcut plates. First Scott edition. 12 volumes. Small 8vo. [185 x 108 x 290 mm]. [2]ff, iv. xxxiii, 287 pp; [2]ff, iv, 330 pp; [2]ff, iv, 329pp; xxi, [iii], 211, [3] pp; vii, [i], 242, [2] pp; [iv], [ix]-xii, [v]-[viii], 259 pp; vii, [i], 251 pp; viii, 272 pp; vii, [i], 251 pp; [2]ff, 255, [1] pp; [2]ff, 217pp; [2]ff, 288pp. Bound in the original light brown paper covered boards, the spines with printed paper labels, plain endleaves, uncut and largely unopened edges. (Vol.12 rebacked to match, headcaps chipped, a few joints cracked, labels rubbed and minor stains). Edited by Sir Walter Scott and comprising The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (vols. 1-3), Memoirs of a Cavalier (4-5), Life of Colonel Jack (6-7), The Adventures of Captain Singleton (8-9), A New Voyage Round the World (10-11) and History of the Plague in London, in 1665 (12). They remain largely unopened, though the preliminary leaves of vol.1 have been slit, with a short tear at head of pp.3-6. There is a little damp-staining to the boards and endleaves in vol.9. Vol.12 has been expertly and almost imperceptibly rebacked. The woodcuts are animated and it is a fine set.
Seller: George Bayntun ABA ILAB PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom