2 volumes, royal 8vo (229 x 146 mm). Engraved titles with vignettes, 15 engraved plates including frontispieces after Stothard by Medland; 14pp. publisher's catalogue bound in at rear of Volume II. (The preface leaf in vol.1 remargined to text and reinserted, vol.2 title-page remargined at top) Contemporary diced calf gilt, top edges gilt (early rebacking to style, head of spine chipped on vol.1). Provenance: early illegible signature on title-page of vol.1).

FIRST STOTHARD EDITION with the first appearance of George Chalmer's biography of The Life of Daniel De Foe (1790) bound in Volume II with continued pagination. Stothard was the "first English artist to realize the visual potential of Robinson Crusoe" with his depiction of Crusoe being an emphasis of contentment, harmony and the nobility of man (Picturing the First Castaway, Rutgers University). Lowndes II, p.613. A TALL COPY.