Illustrations of Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe" (original) (raw)

Illustrations and Illustrators with Examples on This Site

• Thomas Stothard (1790)
• George Cruikshank (1831)
• Edward Henry Wehnert (1862)
• The Cassell's Illustrated Edition (1863-64)
• Phiz [Hablot K. Browne] (1864)
• Sir John Gilbert (1860s)
• Wal Paget (1891)

Book Cover Designs

• John Leighton (1864)
• The Cassell, Petter & Gilpin Edition (1863-64)
• John Leighton (1869)
• "I stood like one thunderstruck." Paget's coloured cover (1891)

Illustrated Editions

• Illustrated Editions, 1736-1895
• Illustrated Editions intended for Children
• The Appeal of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, in France

Related Material

• Variations of Robinson Crusoe
• References in Robinson Crusoe in Dickens
• Daniel Defoe — Website at Brooklyn College. [2 February 2018]

Bibliography

Blewett, David. "Robinson Crusoe, Friday, and the Noble Savage: The Illustration of the Rescue of Friday Scene in the Eighteenth Century." Man and Nature, Vol. 5 (1986), 29–49. Web. 1 January 2018.

Patten, Robert L. Chapter 20, "Thumbnail Designs." George Cruikshank's Life, Times, and Art, vol. 1: 1792-1835. Rutgers, NJ: Rutgers U. P., 1992; London: The Lutterworth Press, 1992. Pp. 325-340.

Last modified 22 April 2018