Title: The Adventures Robinson Crusoe Publisher: T. Nelsons and Sons, London MDCCCLI (1851) Edition Type: Mid-Victorian illustrated trade/gift edition. Condition: VG, no DJ, With cellophane intact
Illustrations: Features a wood-engraved frontispiece ("Crusoe and the Kid", engraved by Gilbert), tissue guard, and an engraved/red-framed title page featuring a cockatoo vignette.
Provenance: Book inscribed to David Brook, a common surname, given by M. Gotobed" which is an unusual and distinct English surname historically concentrated in Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, and Suffolk (particularly around the Cambridgeshire Fens/Ely area). The gift was likely a childhood, birthday, or Sunday school presentation given just four years after the book's 1851 publication.
