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"The author of that book which has imparted to most of us the greatest delight of any, was also the earliest teacher of political economy, the first propounder of free trado. He planted that tree which, stationary and stunted for nearly two centuries, is degrees over all the earth. of our statesmen, and the wisest of our kings."

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WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR.

THE HOUSEHOLD ROBINSON CRUSOE.

CAREFULLY REPRINTED FROM THE ORIGINAL EDITION.

THE LIFE

AND

Strange Surprizing Adventures

OF

ROBINSON CRUSOE,

OF YORK, MARINER.

WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.

WITH AN INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR OF DANIEL DE FOE,

A MEMOIR OF ALEXANDER SELKIRK, AN ACCOUNT OF PETER SERRANO,
AND OTHER INTERESTING ADDITIONS.

ILLUSTRATED WITH UPWARDS OF SEVENTY ENGRAVINGS BY KEELEY HALSWELLE,

A PORTRAIT OF DE FOE, A MAP OF ROBINSON CRUSOE's island, de foe's
TOMB, FACSIMILES OF ORIGINAL TITLE-PAGES, ETC., ETC.

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LONDON:

T. NELSON AND SONS, PATERNOSTER ROW;

EDINBURGH; AND NEW YORK.

1871.-

Hubbard Image, voy T46-115506 g.a. Houghe 16-4-590

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Preface.

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O formal introduction is necessary to a book which for nearly three centuries has been the favourite of young and old, and which is now ranked, by common consent, among the classic masterpieces of English literature.

All then that remains for the Editor to do, is to justify the appearance of this new edition by pointing out in what respects it differs from its predecessors.

1st,—It has been carefully printed from the first edition; though it has not been thought advisable to adopt the pedantic fashion of reproducing the original orthography. We might as well use the old spelling in our

Authorized Version of the Bible;" and we are unable to see how it can interest any but a very limited class of students. For the same reason, we have by no means literally followed the original punctuation, which, perhaps, was not De Foe's, but his printers'. In all other respects the present edition is a faithful transcript of the "Robinson

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