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 (Description)  

Author: J.R. Wyss. PAULL, Mrs. H. B. (translator).
Title: The Swiss Family Robinson; or, The Adventures of a Shipwrecked Family on an Uninhabited Island Near New Guinea. With original coloured illustrations and numerous wood engravings.
Publisher: London and New York, Frederick Warne and Co., 1891.
Language: Text in English.
Size: 8.5" X 6".
Pages: xvi-512 pages.
Binding: Attractive and very good original Victorian publisher decorated full-cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover. A very beautiful binding!
Content: Very good content (bright, tight, and clean, rare light foxing - as shown). 
Illustrations: Complete with the line drawings and the beautiful 16 full-page illustrations.

The book: Beautiful Victorian color illustrated edition of The Swiss Family Robinson (German: Der Schweizerische Robinson) is a novel by Johann David Wyss, first published in 1812, about a Swiss family of immigrants whose ship en route to Port Jackson, Australia, goes off course and is shipwrecked in the East Indies. The ship's crew is lost, but the family and several domestic animals survive. They make their way to shore, where they build a settlement, undergoing several adventures before being rescued; some refuse rescue and remain on the island.
The book is the most successful of a large number of "castaway novels" that were written in response to the success of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719). It has gone through a large number of versions and adaptations. 

The author: Johann David Wyss (28 May 1743 – 11 January 1818) was a Swiss author, best remembered for his book The Swiss Family Robinson (Der schweizerische Robinson) (1812).