Shelfmark
Kd.2.01 (copy 1)
Additional shelfmark
Kd.2.02 (copy 2)
Additional shelfmark
Kd.2.03 (copy 3)
Author
Uniform title
[Robinson Crusoe.]
Title
The life & strange surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York / by Daniel Defoe ; illustrated by Edward Gordon Craig ; introduced by Edward A. Craig.
Varying form of title
Life and strange surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York
Varying form of title
Half-title: Robinson Crusoe
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Basilisk Press, 1979.
Physical description
180, [4] p. : ill. (2 col.), facsim. ; 33 cm.
Note
Statement of responsibility for illustrator printed on frontispiece page.
Note
"The original prints in each book were made by Edward Gordon Craig, usually during the 1930s, by placing Japan paper over the engraving and rubbing it with an ivory pen knife"--Colophon.
Note
"Printed by the John Roberts Press, London on paper mould-made for the edition by Van Gelder of Amsterdam. The text is set in Monotype Imprint with headings in Caslon Old Face and Rosart. The edition was designed by Bernard Roberts and limited to five hundred and fifteen copies, of which five hundred are for sale"--Colophon.
Note
Frontispiece and title page printed in blue and black; two colour illustrations are tipped in.
Note
"The text ... has been set from the 1910 Oxford University Press edition" - title page verso.
Note
"Copies 1 to 5 bound by Anthony Cains, Dublin, in natural Italian goatskin. Accompanied by two original prints by Edward Gordon Craig. Signed by the binder, printer, and Edward A. Craig."--Colophon.
Note
"Copies 6 to 30 bound by Tony Miles, London in dark blue morocco with gold decoration. Ten original prints bound in."--Colophon.
Note
"Copies 31 to 500 bound by Grays of Cambridge in quarter dark blue Nigerian goatskin with unbleached sailcloth sides. Blue pastepaper endpapers by Antoinette Jacobsen, London. One original print bound in. ... Copies A to O bound as copies 31 to 500."--Colophon.
Note
Copies in ordinary binding have gold-tooled full-length natural morocco spine-label; in brown cloth slip-case.
Note
Copies in dark blue morocco binding housed in cloth backed plywood box with red pastepaper lining.
Provenance
Edward Gordon Craig collection.
Provenance
Copy 2: Edward Anthony Craig's copy in original Basilisk Press packing box.
Copy-specific note
Copy 1: ECL copy is no. 135. Publisher's prospectus loosely inserted.
Copy-specific note
Copy 2: ECL copy is no. D. Publisher's prospectus and other items loosely inserted as follows: at pp. 30-31, ALS from Edward Gordon Craig to "Chris", 4 Feb. 1950, about Robinson Crusoe; at pp. 38-39, photocopy of a page from an unidentified early printed book with Craig's annotation about line length; at p. [51], a loose woodcut with ms. note by Edward Anthony Craig about an addition to the woodcut as sent to Count Harry Kessler.
Copy-specific note
Copy 3: ECL copy is no. 10, housed in plywood box with brass clasps.
Subject
Defoe, Daniel, 1661? - 1731 Robinson Crusoe
Subject
Crusoe, Robinson (Fictitious character) Fiction.
Subject
Shipwreck survival Fiction.
Subject
Castaways Fiction.
Subject
Islands Fiction.
Subject
Robinsonades.
Added entry--name
Craig, Edward Gordon, 1872 - 1966 illustrator.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Roberts, Bernard illustrator.
Added entry--name
Craig, Edward Anthony, 1904 - 1998 former owner.
Added entry--name
Basilisk Press publisher.
Added entry--name
John Roberts Press printer.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B52124