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DEFOE**, DANIEL: : ROBINSON CRUSOE - HIS LIFE AND STRANGE SURPRISING ADVENTURES

LONDON.THE NONESUCH PRESS,[CYGNET],1968.

ISBN 0370011066.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated 1st edn thus. FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy laminated,pictorial b/w oval vignette to a blue background illustrated front panel of dw/dj,with black lettering, rear panel with publisher's b/w list of other works/titles; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present. Laminate shrinkage and light lifting to a couple of spots - nothing excessive or obtrusive though.A small (1/2" approx) closed tear to head of spine's front gutter's edge/fold,and some miniscule rubbing+chipping to both head+foot of same - with barely perceptible loss - and inevitable but light sunning/fading with slight discolouring to a paler blue - a ubiquitous fault.Top edges coloured blue/ green,fore-edges overall bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp- cornered,publisher's original blue cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt cygnet vignette+lettering (repeated from dw/dj design) to front bd and bright,crisp, stamped border-edged,gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate blue+white Ardizzone illustrated recto+verso free endpapers (front+rear) respectively.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st illustrated edn thus,11-281pp [paginated] includes foreword by Kathleen Lines,25 chapters,an epilogue and a glossary,plus [unpaginated] 6pp blanks, double-paged title page - each with b/w cygnet vignette illustration and 6pp blanks at the rear of the book. Designed by Sir Francis Meynell.Set in 11 point Ehrhardt leaded 2 points.Printed and made in Great Britain by William Clowes and Sons,Limited,London and Beccles,for The Nonesuch Press Limited,9 Bow Street, London WC2.[SBN 370011066] A private press founded in 1922 in London by Francis Meynell,along with his second wife Vera Mendel,and their mutual friend David Garnett,who was a co-owner of Birrell & Garnett's bookshop in Soho's Gerrard Street,and in the basement of which building,the press began. The Press's first book,was a volume of John Donne's 'Love Poems' issued in May, 1923.In total,the Press produced more than 140 books.The press was at its peak in the 1920s and 1930s,but continued operating through to the mid-1960s.During the late 1930s and throughout the 1940s,Meynell ceded control of the Press to George Macy, founder and owner of the Limited Editions Club.In the early 1950s,Meynell managed to unite with the owner of The Bodley Head, Max Reinhardt and then resumed control of Nonesuch.During the final years of the Press's existence,its remit was extended to include editions of classic children's books,such as E. Nesbit's 'The Treasure Seekers' and 'The Bastables' and Andrew Lang's fairy tales,these and other childrens' classics formed part of the press's Cygnet impression. The Nonesuch Press was unusual among private presses,in that it used a small hand press to design books (an Albion press) but then had them printed by commercial printers: for example,the Birmingham-based Kynoch Press.The purpose of this method was to produce book designs with the quality of a fine-press but available to a wider audience and at lower prices.Meynell also wanted to demonstrate that "mechanical means could be made to serve fine ends." He believed that the production of exquisitely designed and produced books was not the preserve of the private press predicated upon the example established by William Morris's Kelmscott Press,which emphasized the primacy of the handpressed book. Among the press's best-known editions were the collected works of William Congreve and William Wycherley and translations of Cervantes and Dante.A number of illustrated editions were also produced.Nonesuch's editions are prized by collectors; particularly rare and well-designed editions. Edward Jeffrey Irving Ardizzone,1900- 1979,worked as Edward Ardizzone.Born in Haiphong,China,the son of an employee of the Eastern Telegrah Company,the eldest of five children.He lived in the Far East until he was five and then moved with his family to England.Ardizzone lived in Ipswich until he was 14,'and it was here', he wrote,'that I learnt to know and love the little coastal steamers that I have drawn so often in the TIM books.' He attended evening classes in life drawing given by Bernard Meninsky at Westminster School of Art,while employed as a statistical clerk in London (1916-26).He worked freelance as an illustrator from 1926,achieving widespread recognition with his first children's book 'Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain (1936) the first of the famous TIM books.Served in the Royal Artillery (1939-40);Official War Artist (1940-45), noted for his war diaries. Taught illustration at Camberwell School of Art (1948-52).Worked for UNESCO in India (1952-53).Part-time tutor at the Royal College of Art School of Etching (1953-61). Ardizzone worked in watercolour,pen and ink,pencil and lithograph as a painter, printmaker,greetings card designer and illustrator of over 170 books,many of them his own.He was awarded the Kate Greenaway Medal (1956) for 'Tim All Alone' and the Carnegie Medal (1955) and Hans Christian Andersen Medal (1956) with 'The Little Bookroom'.He particularly enjoyed illustrating poetry.He worked mainly from memory,early developing a freely drawn and unmistakable style that changed very little during the course of his long career.He acknowledged the influence of Bernard Meninsky on his work,and also the 19thC draughtsmen Daumier,Dore and Caldecott.His brother-in-law Gabriel White considered 'perhaps no artist since Randolph Caldecott has captured so easily the qualities essential in successful illustration for a child.Ardizzone's are bold and clear and tell the tale in the simplest lines and colours.Ardizzone was awarded the CBE (UK honour) in 1971.In 1973,a retrospective of his work was held at the V & A Museum in London. 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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated 1st edn thus.
Not SIGNED.

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