Description
The Adventures of Robert Drury, reprinted in 1807 for Stodart and Craggs of London.
Octavo, xii, 1-459pp, [3]. Full leather, gilt trim to covers. Spine professionally rebacked with title in gilt on black morocco label. Marbled endpapers. Stated “Reprinted for Stodart and Craggs, 1807” on title page. Solid text block, faint foxing to leaves throughout. Complete with engraved frontispiece portrait of the “Shipwreck of the Degrave,” and another plate. Previous ownership bookplates to front endpapers. A very good example.
The first edition of this work was published by W. Meadows in Cornhill in 1729, with a large fold-out map. This work was previously attributed to Daniel DeFoe as a work of fiction, but modern scholarship has proven much of the first-person account of Drury. (Moore, 511) From the collection of Charles Fleishmann III, with his bookplate on the front endpaper. Fleishmann III was a lifelong traveler, collector, and philanthropist who lived in Cincinnati, Ohio. (Hindman Auctions, November 2023)
