Aventures de Robinson Crusoé

New edition of this translation by Amable Tastu, first published in 1837. It is illustrated with 2 frontispieces and 50 steel engravings on heavy paper in attractive frames after drawings by Sainson. Notice on Foe and on the Sailor Selkirk, by Louis Reybaud.
Publisher's polychrome and gilt paper boards. First edition in publisher's boards. Black percale cathedral-style boards. Smooth spine decorated with polychrome monastic tools. Upper board decorated with a polychrome cathedral-style pediment with oriental figures in niches and navigation instruments in the center. Gilt edges. Both volumes slightly warped, leaning to the right. Some scattered foxing.
Very handsome copies.