NMLP P-038064 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-19
Robinson Crusoe (The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe)
Daniel Defoe · W. Taylor, London · 1719
No book-club edition exists in the modern sense for a 1719 imprint. The documented reprint tells donors will actually meet: (1) any title-page bearing an edition statement ("The Second/Third/Fourth Edition") — these are Hutchins's later 1719-1731 printings, not the first; (2) Victorian children's and illustrated editions from 1736 onward, which are the overwhelming majority of donated Crusoes; (3) 20th-century press and subscription reprints — Everyman's Library, Limited Editions Club / Heritage Press, and Franklin Library — identifiable by modern paper, publisher's cloth or leatherette, and a 20th-century copyright or colophon leaf. A genuine 1719 Taylor octavo will be in contemporary panelled calf or a later fine binding, with no modern imprint anywhere in the book.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-038064 for "Robinson Crusoe (The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe)" by Daniel Defoe (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-038064, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).