Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe - The People's Penny Library

Rare example of the People’s Penny Library edition of Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe published in this cheap, now elusive, edition in 1860s Manchester in the 1860s. Number 1. Missing original boards. Leaves 1-4 are loosened to lower halves along gutter but surviving text block remains otherwise entirely sound. Illustrated frontispiece in good condition, a little age toned as expected. 358 pp. of text collated and complete. Tear noted to fore edge of p.257 resulting in minimal loss to text. A clean tear across p. 263. Indication that 8 pp. probable original full page illustrations have been neatly excised throughout. We locate a single copy in the NYPL