The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner.

(Haslewood Books.) DEFOE (Daniel)

The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner.

[Illustrated by E. McKnight Kauffer and edited by Kathleen Campbell.]

Description: 506/500 COPIES (from an overall edition of 535 copies) printed by Glasgow University Press on all-rag paper, title-page vignette and 8 full-page hand-coloured pochoir illustrations by McKnight Kauffer, pp. [ii], 332, [iv], 4to, original slate-blue cloth, front board with silver-stamped McKnight Kauffer design, backstrip lettered in silver, board edges and backstrip slightly faded, endpapers lightly toned, untrimmed, good

Publication Details: Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald, 1929

Notes: The Times described McKnight Kauffer's illustrations as 'these very fresh and brilliant plates' while T.S. Eliot, an earlier collaborator, wrote 'I like the illustrations immensely, and some of them have a quality which reminds me of Chirico'.

Bibliography: (Tucker 26)

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