Item #160514008 [The Swiss Family Robinson] The Family Robinson Crusoe, or, Journal of a Father Shipwrecked, with his Wife and Children, on an Uninhabited Island. Johann Wyss.
[The Swiss Family Robinson] The Family Robinson Crusoe, or, Journal of a Father Shipwrecked, with his Wife and Children, on an Uninhabited Island
[The Swiss Family Robinson] The Family Robinson Crusoe, or, Journal of a Father Shipwrecked, with his Wife and Children, on an Uninhabited Island
[The Swiss Family Robinson] The Family Robinson Crusoe, or, Journal of a Father Shipwrecked, with his Wife and Children, on an Uninhabited Island
[The Swiss Family Robinson] The Family Robinson Crusoe, or, Journal of a Father Shipwrecked, with his Wife and Children, on an Uninhabited Island
[The Swiss Family Robinson] The Family Robinson Crusoe, or, Journal of a Father Shipwrecked, with his Wife and Children, on an Uninhabited Island

[The Swiss Family Robinson] The Family Robinson Crusoe, or, Journal of a Father Shipwrecked, with his Wife and Children, on an Uninhabited Island

London: Printed for M.J. Godwin and Co., 1816.

First complete English edition. Two volumes, illustrated with engraved frontispiece at front of first volume, folding map at front of second, five plates. xxiv, 346 pp. with note on continuation; iv, 380 pp. Gilt ruled light blue crushed morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, bright gilt top edges and inner dentelles, marbled blue endpapers. Very Good. Spines sunned. Repair to editor's note at the end of vol. one with loss of text, four repaired tears in vol. two (no loss), two unobtrusive marginal repairs, some soiling and spotting. The first complete English-language edition of The Swiss Family Robinson (as the book would be retitled in 1818), a re-issue of anarchist philosopher William Godwin's 1814 translation with a cancel title-page and the first appearance of Wyss' continuation. Item #160514008

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