# FOE (Daniel de). ROBINSON CRUSOE. Translation by Petrus Borel. Enriched with the life of Daniel de Foë, by Philarète Chasles and notices on the Sailor Selkirk, on Saint-Hyacinthe, on the island of Juan-Fernadez, on the Caribs and the Puelches, by Ferdinand Denis; and of a religious dissertation by the Abbé La Bouderie.
Paris, Borel et Varennne, 1836, 2 vol. in-8, half-cream, smooth spine decorated (period binding).
"Very rare edition, considered as one of the most beautiful specimen of the renovation of woodcutting" (Carteret III, 240). First edition of the translation by Pétrus Borel and first printing of the 250 woodcuts after Nanteuil, Lorentz, Marville,... The portrait of de Foë after Devéria, is engraved on chine in frontispiece. Accidents to the bindings with lacks, wear. Freckles on the whole.
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