STOTHARD, THOMAS, illustrator. DEFOE, DANIEL. The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Embellished with engravings from designs by Thomas Stothard, Esq., R.A., London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1820, 2 vols., large 8vo, 257 x 180 x 62 (vol. II: 53) mm. (10 1/8 x 7 1/8 x 2 3/8 [vol. II: 2 1/16] in.), green crushed levant morocco, covers with triple gilt fillet borders, gilt floral tooling at corners, spines and turn-ins similarly gilt, green watered silk doublures and liners, t.e.g., others uncut, stamp-signed on upper turn-ins: "Bound by Rivière and Son", upper liner of vol. I and upper doublure of vol. II with small defects, green morocco pull-off cases with gilt monogram of Clara B. Fort (cases faded and scratched), LARGE PAPER COPY, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED WITH 28 PENCIL AND WASH DRAWINGS, MOST BY STOTHARD (122 x 92 mm. and smaller), consisting of 22 drawings for the engravings and six not used in the edition (including one bound in as frontispiece to vol. II, attributed to George Cruikshank and numbered 16/20 in a note in pencil), all the drawings mounted on heavy stock within a gilt rule frame; with an extra suite of proofs before letters of the 20 plates of steel engravings and 2 engraved title vignettes by C. Heath after Stothard, and one inserted steel-engraved portrait. The Clara B. Fort copy (this book did not appear in the sale of her library, Anderson Galleries, 17 December 1923). Stothard's popular illustrations of Crusoe were first published in 1781 and frequently reprinted. The unsigned drawings bound into this copy (most in pencil and monochrome wash, 2 in color) seem to be Stothard's own. To the drawings for plates nos. XII (vol. I, p. 336) and XIX (vol. II, p. 171) are appended separate slips of paper bearing small careful pencil sketches of crucial details of faces and hands, presumably intended as an aid to the engraver. In their details the drawings correspond more closely to earlier editions of the engravings than to the modified proofs of the present edition.

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STOTHARD, THOMAS, illustrator. DEFOE, DANIEL. The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Embellished with engravings from designs by Thomas Stothard, Esq., R.A., London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1820, 2 vols., large 8vo, 257 x 180 x 62 (vol. II: 53) mm. (10 1/8 x 7 1/8 x 2 3/8 [vol. II: 2 1/16] in.), green crushed levant morocco, covers with triple gilt fillet borders, gilt floral tooling at corners, spines and turn-ins similarly gilt, green watered silk doublures and liners, t.e.g., others uncut, stamp-signed on upper turn-ins: "Bound by Rivière and Son", upper liner of vol. I and upper doublure of vol. II with small defects, green morocco pull-off cases with gilt monogram of Clara B. Fort (cases faded and scratched), LARGE PAPER COPY, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED WITH 28 PENCIL AND WASH DRAWINGS, MOST BY STOTHARD (122 x 92 mm. and smaller), consisting of 22 drawings for the engravings and six not used in the edition (including one bound in as frontispiece to vol. II, attributed to George Cruikshank and numbered 16/20 in a note in pencil), all the drawings mounted on heavy stock within a gilt rule frame; with an extra suite of proofs before letters of the 20 plates of steel engravings and 2 engraved title vignettes by C. Heath after Stothard, and one inserted steel-engraved portrait. The Clara B. Fort copy (this book did not appear in the sale of her library, Anderson Galleries, 17 December 1923).

Stothard's popular illustrations of Crusoe were first published in 1781 and frequently reprinted. The unsigned drawings bound into this copy (most in pencil and monochrome wash, 2 in color) seem to be Stothard's own. To the drawings for plates nos. XII (vol. I, p. 336) and XIX (vol. II, p. 171) are appended separate slips of paper bearing small careful pencil sketches of crucial details of faces and hands, presumably intended as an aid to the engraver. In their details the drawings correspond more closely to earlier editions of the engravings than to the modified proofs of the present edition.