Cloth binding for ‘Robinson Crusoe’

John Leighton

1864

Cloth binding

Signed

This narrative scene in gilt on blue pebble cloth shows Robinson and Friday after a hunting spree. The style is very much in the figurative manner of Leighton’s earlier work of the 1850s, and may be a reprint of a book first issued in 1850. The volume is illustrated by Phiz [Hablôt Knight Browne].

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