[Rarebooks] FS: Robinson Crusoe variant

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 THE LIFE And most Surprizing ADVENTURES 
OF ROBINSON CRUSOE, of YORK, Mariner. WHO Lived Eight and Twenty 
Years in an Uninhabited Island on the Coast of America, lying near 
the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque ... 
 London: Printed for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch in 
Pater-noster-Row, J. Brotherton and W. Meadows in Cornhill, S. Birt 
in Avemary-Lane, J. Osborn in Pater-noster-Row, and J. Hodges on 
London-Bridge, [1733]. Illustrated with marvellous woodcuts. [FP 
leaf], [6], pp.1-372, 375-376. (A)4,
(B-I)12, (K-Q)12, R1-R6, R8. Only wanting R7 (pp.373-374). The FP is 
A1. Pages 298 and 299 are misnumbered as pages 288 and 289, 
respectively. Three volumes, abridged, in one

16mo, early leather binding with gilt rules on boards. Front board 
attached by cords, rear board detached (but present). Front free 
endpaper loose, lacking R7 (pp. 373-374), old brown ink inscriptions 
(se below) on front leaves.
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 [Title page for vols. II and III, K1r:] THE FARTHER ADVENTURES OF 
Robinson Crusoe. Wherein are contain'd, Several Strange and 
Surprizing ACCOUNTS of all his Travels, and most Remarkable 
Transactions, both by Sea and Land: With his wonderful Vision of the 
Angelick World. VOL. II. and III. Written Originally by Himself, and 
now faithfully Abridg'd. The FOURTH EDITION. LONDON: Printed in the 
Year MDCCXXXIII.

Ownership inscriptions on paste-downs, front free endpaper, recto of 
free endpaper, and R8v (p.376). These are of [Mrs. R. Welde?], Sarah 
Collett (1771), and John Grace (1782-1788). Grace obtained the book 
as a gift from Sarah Collett. 'First published in April 1719' written 
(neatly) at the top of the title page, outside the double rule. 
Otherwise the free endpapers and both title pages are fine and clean.

The text is printed in an unsual fount and has woodcuts throughout. 
This is the 'Bettesworth' variant, which is
rarer than the 'Bettsworth' variant (N55140). Hutchins does not note 
this variant. This abridged edition may have
been written by Thomas Gent, the printer (1693-1778) who wrote one of 
the two redactions associated with Edward Midwinter.

ESTC locates copies in the Opie collection at the Bodleian and at 
McMaster (Canada). Of the two variants, this is the rarer
 [ESTC N68162, Not in Hutchins]<img 
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$1,600.00

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