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Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: London: John Stockdale, 1790. Octavos. Two volume set. Hardcovers. No additional printings indicated. Crowns of the spine are missing pieces of the binding. The front board of volume one has been repaired and is quite stiff. Previous owner's bookplate affixed to the inside of volume two. Books are in fair condition.
Seller: Bad Animal, Santa Cruz, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$569.25 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 17 plates by Stothard (9 in Vol. I, 8, in Vol. 2), 7.25 x 4.75", full gilt ruled red leather, raised bands with gilt dec and lettering, gilt dec inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, viii, 493; iii, 483. Rebacked, covers have soiling, scuffing/scraping, edgewear, bookplates (Haber-korn), page edges spotted/soiled, corners bumped, spine tips chipped, offsetting from plates. Volume I has cracked outer/inner hinges and rear cover is almost detached. Also in Volume I the title page vignette is the same as Volume II, not the one listed "Wreck Of The Ship", additionally, Volume I's frontis (Plate I) has exchanged places with Plate II. The bookplates "Haberkorn" have ink inscriptions "C.H.H., Jr. from A.D.H. 12-25-20". Adelaide Dorthea Haberkorn gave this book as a Christmas present to her brother, Christian Henry Haberkorn, Jr., they were the children of prominent Detroit businessman, Christian Henry Haberkorn, Sr., founder of the Haberkorn Investment Company.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 2 volumes. xii, [4], [7], 389p; v, 456p, [12]. Contemporary calf. Professionally rebacked with new spines. Marbled end papers. Complete with frontispieces in both volumes, the portrait of Defoe and twelve engraving plates in the text. Lowndes II p613. The first four leaves after the preface are called 'Directions for placing the Cuts'. This is then followed by the subscription list. From the Library of Robert Day with armorial bookplate. Some light foxing on the title page and off-setting from the plates. Corners a little bumped. Slight damage to marbled paper at the inner margin at the front board in volume II. 19th century private ownership stamp on the inside front blanks.
Seller: Rosenlund Rare Books & Manuscripts, Basking Ridge, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Quarto. Two volumes. I: xii, 389pp.; II: v, 456, 14pp. I: []1, A6, B8-Z8, Aa8-Bb8, Cc6 (- Cc6 blank); II: []1, A2, B8-Z8, Aa8-Gg8, Hh2 (Hh2 blank). First Stockdale edition. Modern brown half calf over marbled boards. With a folding copper-engraved map, and 17 copper-engraved plates (16 of them by Medland after Stothard) including the frontispieces & titles. Lewine, Bibliography of 18th Century Art & Illustrated Books, p. 131; ESTC N47632; Lowndes, III, 613; NCBEL, II, 900 (first few editions only); Ray, Illustrator and the Book in England, 19.
Seller: Sam Gatteno Books, Grosse Pointe, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$772.96 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A complete copy of the First Stockdale edition of Robinson Crusoe, with all 17 plates including the 2 engraved vignette titles. Two volumes in period full polished tree calf. Spines gilt tooled, with later morocco title labels. Vol 1 with repaired split to spine. Attractive set in period leather, very occasional light soiling to text.
Seller: Finecopy, Westbury, WILTS, United Kingdom
Price: US$772.96 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Who lived eight twenty years all alone in an uninhabited Island on the Coast of America near the Mouth of the Great River Oroonoque, Having been cast on the Shore by Shipwereck, wherein all Men perished but himself. With an account of how he was at last as strangely delivered by Pyrates. Written by himself. 1st Edition, Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly, 1790. 2 Volume Complete Set in Tree Calf Leather. Royal 8vo. xii 389pp. ii 455pp. xiv. 17 wonderful and iconic illustrations by Stothard, of which 16 copperengraved by Medland after Stothard, including 2 tissueguarded frontispieces, 2 vignette title page illustrations and 14 full page plate illustrations, all present and correct as called for and in excellent order. Very good condition internally, clean tight sound square, no bookplate, inscriptions or ownership marks of any kind, unusually and remarkably free from foxing or browning save to tissueguards, not intruding or detracting in the least, tender to upper hinges holding firm, printed on thick creamy paper with wide margins. Bound in good attractive gilt lettered, dentelled, ruled and decorated full tree calf, bumped to lower leading corner Vol I and rubbed to rest with light loss, some rubbing to boards with small splash to upper Vol II, closed split 2 to 3 hinges. Good shelf presence featuring 7 gilt ruled flat bands, 5 gilt dentelled compartments with gilt ship and anchor vignette decoration and 1 remaining black title label to spines gently chipped to head with very slight loss. 2 Volume set of First Stockdale Edition, with Stothards definitive Crusoe illustrations.2 Volume set of First Stockdale Edition, with Stothards definitive Crusoe illustrations. The story of Robinson Crusoe has been thought to be based upon Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway who lived for four years on an uninhabited Pacific Island, now part of Chile and renamed Robinson Crusoe Island. Upon first publication, Crusoe himself was credited as author, leading readers to believe he was a real person and the book a travelogue. Instantly and wildly popular, the work is often credited as marking the beginning of realistic fiction as a genre, and generally seen as a contender for the first English Novel. It has gone on to become one of the most widely published books in history. 2 Volume set of First Stockdale Edition, with Stothards definitive Crusoe illustrations.
Seller: Richard Booth's Bookshop, Hereford, United Kingdom
Price: US$798.46 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Later red half calf. Two volums. XII, 390 ; V, 456, (14) pp. 2 engraved titles, 2 engraved frontispieces, 13 engraved plates. Nice set, a few foxings.
Seller: Damms Antikvariat AS, Oslo, Norway
DANIEL DEFOE. THE LIFE AND STRANGE SUPRIZING ADVENTURES OF ROVINSON CRUSOE. JOHN STOCKDALE, 1790.
Price: US$1100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition of Stockdale's 1790 edition of Defoeâ s classic tale of adventure, the first edition with engraved frontispieces, vignette title pages and 12 full-page illustrations by Thomas Stothard.
Seller: Vagabond Books, A.B.A.A., PASADENA, CA, U.S.A.
Defoe, Daniel. Life And Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Printed for John Stockdale, London, 1790.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo, [two volumes], xii, [8], [frontis], 389pp, [3]; v, [1], 456pp, [8pp. catalogue]. Full brown calf, modern calf spines, title in gilt over red morocco, decorative gilt bands on spine. Complete with 17 illustrated plates by Thomas Medland, after Thomas Stothard. Includes the 8 page catalogue in Volume II and binding instructions in preface of Volume I. Occasional toning to plates, some offsetting to opposite text. (ESTC T7229) An attractive set. (Sabin 19285). Thomas Stothard was the "first English artist to realize the visual potential of Robinson Crusoe" with his depiction of Crusoe being an emphasis of contentment, harmony, and the nobility of man. (Lowndes II, p. 613.).
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A handsome eighteenth-century edition of Robinson Crusoe in an early Bayntun binding. Accompanied by a description of the book on the letterhead of the early twentieth-century bookseller Harry F. Marks. Marks describes it as a "SUPERB COPY OF ROBINSON CRUSOE. Engraved titles and vignettes and 15 beautiful steel engravings by Medland from designs by Stothard. 2 Vols., royal 8vo., handsome full polished sprinkled calf, panel sides, blind tooling, gilt fillet borders, extra gilt backs, inside dentelles, gilt edges, by Bayntun. Enclosed in fleece-lined slip case." With George Chalmer's "Life of Daniel Defoe". In the century since Marks wrote his description there have been minor scuffs to the front board of volume II and the hinges have begun to start. They have been professionally repaired and strengthened. At the advice of a conservator the volumes are no longer stored in the fleece-lined slip case. Loss to the head of the spine of volume I (see photos). Engraved portrait of Defoe has offset to facing page, other engravings have not. Faded owners' inscriptions to the title page of both volumes offer evidence of female ownership in both the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Volume I: Frontispiece, title page, advertisement, 2pp. Preface, 8 pp. Directions for Placing the Cuts, 6 pp. List of Subscribers, 2pp. Publisher's appeal for subscribers to their forthcoming edition of Shakespeare edited by Ayscough, 1-389pp. Volume II: Frontispiece, [i]-v, [1]-455, 14 page publisher's catalog, beginning with an appeal for subscribers to six-volume collection of the Works of Defoe.
Seller: B Street Books, ABAA and ILAB, San Mateo, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2195.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST EDITION thus. Two volumes. Original diced calf boards with modern rebacked calf leather spine with raised bands and gilt tooled design of a flower. Two red morocco labled with gilt lettering. Frontispieces, illustrated. This has the lengthy life of Defoe plus an elaborate list of Defoe's writings, followed by the 8 pages of publisher's catalog in Vol 2. Thomas Stothard (August 17, 1755 - April 27, 1834) was an English painter and engraver. He designed plates for pocket-books, tickets for concerts, illustrations to almanacs, portraits of popular actors--into all these he infused a grace and distinction which make them sought after by collectors. Among his more important series are the two sets of illustrations to Robinson Crusoe, one for the New Magazine and one for Stockdale's edition, and the plates to The Pilgrim's Progress (1788), to Harding's edition of Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield (1792), to The Rape of the Lock (1798), to the works of Solomon Gessner (1802), to William Cowper's Poems (1825), and to The Decameron; while his figure-subjects in the superb editions of Samuel Rogers's Italy (1830) and Poems (1834) prove that even in old age his imagination was still fertile, and his hand firm. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Ziern-Hanon Galleries, Frontenac, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$2262.20 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Large 8 Vo. Two (2) volumes in full navy blue morocco with 6 gilt edged compartments on spine and gilt designed panels to boards. All gilt edges and dentelles with marbled endpapers and silk ribbon markers. All by BAYNTUN of Bath. 14 full page engravings. Two title page vignettes. Also included is the Life of Defoe by George Chalmers with engraving of Defoe as frontis. Remarkably clean interiors. An extremely attractive "early" edition of Robinson Crusoe.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe. John Stockdale, London, 1790.
Price: US$2750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Stothard & Meland. Leather Bound. H: 8 1/2", D: 5 1/2", W: 1 1/4" 2 Volumes. Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe. Bound by Morrell in full marbled calf. The covers and raised band spines display gilt-tooling with brown morocco labels. All the edges are gilt with gilt-tooled dentelles. Includes a Life of the Author by George Chalmers and 2 engraved title pages, one engraved author portrait, and 14 full-page engraved plates designed by Stothard and engraved by Meland. London: John Stockdale, 1790.
Seller: Imperial Fine Books ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$9661.97 + shipping
Description: Two vols, 8vo, pp.[20], 389, [1]; v, [1], 456, [16 (advertisements, with a terminal blank)]; with engraved frontispieces and title-pages and 12 engraved plates by Medland after Stothard, tissue guards; the 'Life of Daniel Defoe' has a separate title-age and frontispiece (register and pagination continuous); extra-illustrated with 13 contemporary original drawings in pencil, pen and colour wash, each within a black border; some offset from the black borders else a very good copy in early nineteenth-century diced russia, the covers gilt with a large scalloped central wheel and cornerpieces, neatly rebacked and recornered; armorial stencil to front endpapers of William John Church.First Stockdale edition, a unique copy, augmented with an evocative suite of original illustrations. Stockdale's Crusoe 'was an important contribution to the life of Defoe's book. The handsome set restored the Crusoe text, which, by 1790, had been much abused. George Chalmer's Life of Defoe [first 1785] was the first significant biography of Defoe,' while Thomas Stothard's 'extensive and beautiful illustrations made Stockdale's the first edition so finely decorated' (Lovett 89). Stothard had first illustrated Crusoe with a set of seven images in The Novelist's Magazine (1781), described by Austin Dobson as the beginning of English book illustration 'by imaginative composition'. For the Stockdale edition, he produced a new set, engraved by Thomas Medland 'a more comprehensive series the first pictorial treatment of Robinson Crusoe as a progress' (Blewett) and they paved the way for numerous illustrated editions to follow. They show an industrious, domestic Crusoe, sociable with Friday and the Spanish soldier they rescue, and the plates are dominated by the human protagonists. In contrast the anonymous illustrator here shows a Crusoe more overwhelmed by his surroundings, which are rendered in lush tropical colour, and threatened by those he encounters; he unloads stores from the shipwreck, constructs shelters, is surprised by a goat in a cave, navigates his canoe to the Spanish wreck. In the first four images he is in jaunty checked shirt, which gives over thereafter to his trademark furs and hat. Friday appears in two images, first in red stripes, as he and Crusoe fire on the cannibals; and then playing with the bear up a tree, a popular scene clearly derived from the Stothard's illustrations of 1781, but which was omitted in 1790. Stothard's images for the Further Adventures are rather static conversation-pieces with multiple figures. Our talented illustrator includes instead several dramatic scenes of boats, and of conflicts with 'savages', as a well as a Chinese potentate under an umbrella.See Blewett, The Illustration of Robinson Crusoe (1996). Language: English
Seller: Bernard Quaritch Ltd ABA ILAB, London, United Kingdom