The life and strange surprizing adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, mariner: who lived eight and twenty years all alone in an un-inhabited island on the coast of America, near the mouth of the great river of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With an Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates. Written by himself

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  • The life and strange surprizing adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, mariner: who lived eight and twenty years all alone in an un-inhabited island on the coast of America, near the mouth of the great river of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With an Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates. Written by himself
  • Robinson Crusoe. Part 1
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Imprint
London : printed for W. Taylor at the Ship in Pater-Noster-Row, MDCCXIX. [1719] The second edition.; ..
Publication year
1719
ESTC No.
T72265
Grub Street ID
295802
Description
[4],364,[4]p.,plate ; 8°.
Note
In fact by Daniel Defoe

With two final advertisement leaves

Printing was divided among Henry Parker (sig. B-O, Z-2A), Hugh Meere (sig. P-S), and William Bowyer (sig. T-Y). See Keith Maslen, 'The printers of Robinson Crusoe,' in An early London printing house at work: studies in the Bowyer ledgers (New York, 1993).
Uncontrolled note
MB report 2 "states": in one, the "e" in cw 'before' on p.260 is present, in the other its not. (BL Cop has no "e"). Too minor for 500 note