{"product_id":"gorgeous-binding-1856-the-little-robinson-crusoe-illustrated","title":"GORGEOUS BINDING 1856 The Little Robinson Crusoe, Illustrated","description":"\u003cp\u003eDefoe, Daniel. \u003cstrong\u003eThe Little Robinson Crusoe\u003c\/strong\u003e. Boston: J. Buffum, 1856. [11963]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA very clean and bright red cloth binding, front \u0026amp; spine in elaborate gilt, back board stamped in blind, small 9.5 x 8 cm (3 3\/4 x 3 1\/8 inches), all page edges gilt, the binding is exceptionally nice. Yellow end papers; 1857 gift inscription in brown ink on the ffep. 96, [1] clean pp.; each page of text has a full-page wood engraving opposite it. Very good. Hardcover.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eCrusoe\u003c\/em\u003e story adapted for the young, fully illustrated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Let us hope that this tale of wonderful adventures, bitter sufferings, and perilous escapes, will teach our young friends the advantages of a safe and quiet home, and cure them of that sad disorder of the mind, a discontented and restless disposition.\" - Preface.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe publisher, Job Buffum, a native of Nashua, New Hampshire, established his Boston publishing firm in 1850, and continued in business until 1861.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Between 1850 and 1853 he published four small selections of English poetry edited by John Stowell Adams, a minor American writer interested in spiritualism and music. In 1855 he published \u003cem\u003eTown and Country\u003c\/em\u003e, a book of short stories by Adams...\u003cem\u003eLucretia, the Quakeress\u003c\/em\u003e, an antislavery novel by Mrs. Phebe Ann Hanaford, was published in 1853.\" - Theodore Mills, \u003cem\u003eDictionary of Literary Biography 49\u003c\/em\u003e, p. 67.  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Haaswurth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43733462319170,"sku":"ABE11963","price":200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0191\/6066\/2082\/files\/DSC06667BackgroundRemoved.png?v=1778505243","url":"https:\/\/www.haaswurth.com\/products\/gorgeous-binding-1856-the-little-robinson-crusoe-illustrated","provider":"Haaswurth Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}