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THE ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE: by Daniel De Foe.— Embellished with Three Hundred Engravings, after designs by J. J. Grandville. The most extensively illustrated and complete edition of this work yet published.
Demy 8vo. cloth, gilt back, (508 pp.) price 7s.
"A book from which the most luxuriant and fertile of our modern prose writers have drunk inspiration—a book, moreover, to which from the hardy deeds which it narrates, and the spirit of strange and romantic enterprise which it tends to awaken, England owes many of her astonishing discoveries both by sea and land, and no inconsiderable part of her naval glory.
"Hail to thee, spirit of De Foe! What does not my own poor self owe to thee? England has better bards than either Greece or Rome, yet I could spare them easier far than De Foe, 'unabashed De Foe,' as the hunchbacked rhymer styled him."—George Barrow.
"The most romantic of books; the text and wood-cuts in this edition are exceedingly beautiful."—Morning Advertiser.
"Robinson Crusoe is eagerly read by young people; and there is hardly a child so devoid of imagination as not to have supposed for himself a solitary island, in which he could act 'Robinson Crusoe,' were it but in a corner of the nursery. Neither does a re-perusal, at a more advanced age, diminish early impressions. The situation is such as every man may make his own. It has the merit, too, of that species of accurate painting which can be looked at again and again with new pleasure."—Sir Walter Scott.
"Oh! the delight with which we first devoured the pages of Crusoe; and oh! how that delight would have been enhanced had we at that day possessed the illustrated book before us! The plates are from engravings on Wood, and are extremely well executed."—Britannia.
"The paper and type are of the first quality, and the numerous woodcuts are admirable."—Era.
"How happy that this, the most moral of romances, is not only the most charming of books, but the most instructive."—A. Chalmers.
"No fiction in any language was ever better supported than these Adventures of Robinson Crusoe."—Dr. Blair.
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HEADS OF THE PEOPLE, or Portraits of the English;—Drawn by Kenny Meadows, and engraved by Orrin Smith, and elaborately criticised and examined by the most eminent writers, including—
DOUGLAS JERROLD
MRS. GORE