The Swiss family Robinson. or, Adventures of a shipwrecked family on a desolate island; a new and unabridged translation /
Johann David Wyss (1743 - 1818)
Category
Books
Date
1879
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Nymans Estate, West Sussex
NT 3191056
Summary
Bibliographic description
x, 690, [6] p. :. ill. ;. 8vo. Imperfect: wanting final leaf before advertisements. With a child's writing on pastedown "I appol [crossed through] am sorry for having drawn in this book". Provenance: inscribed "To dear Lennie with Aunt Jennie's love. Feb: 19. 1881" [i.e. to Leonard Messel (1872-1953)]. Binding: publisher's green cloth, decorated in black and gold, gold-lettered.
Makers and roles
Johann David Wyss (1743 - 1818) Jean Charles Emmanuel Nodier (1780-1844) Henry Frith (b.1840) Johann Rudolf Wyss (1782 - 1830)