The first edition of Robinson Crusoe illustrated with 13 full color pictures by N.C. Wyeth appeared 1920.
This picture for the dust cover was used for many editions.
Frontispiece
For a mile, or thereabuts, my raft went very well -
My father, a wise and grave man, gave me serious and excellent counsel against what he foresaw was my design.
- and making it into a great cross, I set it up on the shore where I first landed -
All this while I sat upon the ground, very much terrified and dejected.
In the morning I took the Bible; and beginning at the New Testament, I began seriously to read it.
I reaped it my way, for I cut nothing off but the ears, and carried it away in a great basket which I had made.
- and thus I every now and then took a little voyage upon the sea.
I stood like one thunderstruck, or as if I had an apparition.
I laid me down flat on my belly on the ground, and began to look for the place.
- and then he kneeled down again, kissed the ground, and taking me by the foot, set my foot upon his head.
- we cut and hewed the outside into the shape of a boat.
- and no sooner had he the arms in his hands but, as if they had put new vigor into him, he flew upon his murderers like a fury.
At first, for some time, I was not able to answer him one word; but as he had taken me in his arms, I held fast by him, or I should have fallen to the ground.
Endpapers
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