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Creator:
Wyss, Johann David, 1743-1818
Title(s):

The Swiss family Robinson : being the adventures of a family shipwrecked on a desert island.

Additional Title(s):

Schweizerische Robinson. English

Edition:
A new edition.
Published/Created:
London : Groombridge and Sons, 1878.
Physical Description:
x, 266 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 19 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
PZ7 W9 S9 1878
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Illustrations by Edward Whimper [i.e. Whymper], Joseph Nash, and T. Baines; after Joseph Swain, D.N.F., W.H.F. [i.e. William Henry Freeman], Alexander Francis Lydon, and P. William Justyne. Color plates printed by Benjamin Fawcett; one after Alexander Francis Lydon.
Advertisements: [2] p. at front, and [10] p. at end.
Text printed by Simson and Co., Hertford.
Subject Terms:
Fawcett, Benjamin, 1808-1893 -- Printer.
Groombridge and Sons -- Publisher.
Harington, Margaret Agnata, 1871-1954 -- Pres. insc. from J.R., 1879.
Simson and Co. -- Printer.
Form/Genre:
Chromoxylographs -- 1878.
Wood engravings -- 1878.
Contributors:
Whymper, Edward, 1840-1911, ill.
Nash, Joseph, 1809-1878, ill.
Baines, T., ill.
Norske forbundet av 1948, ill.
Freeman, William Henry, active 1839-1875, ill.
Lydon, A. F. (Alexander Francis), 1836-1917, ill.
Swain, Joseph, 1820-1909, ill.
Justyne, Percy William, 1812-1883, ill.
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