RAINBOW CLASSICS, Original Illustration

by Roger Duvoisin for Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, prepared for and used in the published volume by Roger Duvoisin

$500 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, nd this edition published 1946 . The drawing in gouache, 7 x 11 inches on white watercolor paper, the drawing 6 1/2 x 9 ½ inches. Used on the trade edition dust jacket and front board of many library bindings, the gouache drawing shows Robinson Crusoe walking near a bay, carrying his rifle, umbrella, and parrot, accompanied by two cats, a dog and a goat nearly the same image is reproduced on page

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