Lot Essay
Osbourne: "In writing of a castaway who met his adventures through defective education, Campe tried to combine the story quality of Defoe with the practical applications of Rousseau."
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[CAMPE, Joachim Heinrich.] An Abridgement of the New Robinson Crusoe; an instructive history, for the use of children of both sexes, London, for John Stockdale, 1789, 12°, second edition of this version, 32 woodcut plates by John Bewick, booklist bound in at rear (frontispiece cleanly torn and neatly repaired (occasional light browning), later half morocco, g.e. [Osbourne p. 239; Gumuchian 4877]