Attributed to Joachim Heinrich Campe by NUC pre-1956; author is identified as a Mr. Campe, first on p. 9 of the preface in v. 1.

Anonymous translation of Joachim Heinrich Campe's Robinson der jüngere: ein Lesebuch für Kinder, first printed Hamburg, 1779-1780 ; later printed in Paris, 1783, translated by the author as: Le nouveau Robinson, pour servir a l'amusement et a l'instruction des enfans de l'un et de l'autre sexe.

Pagination: v. 1: 173 [i.e. 185], [3] p.; v. 2: 156 [i.e. 170] p.; v. 3: 137 [i.e. 155], [1] p.; v. 4: 177 [i.e. 195], [9] p.

Signatures: v. 1: A-G¹² H¹° (H10 blank); v. 2: A-G¹² H² (-H2); v. 3: A-F¹² G⁶ (G6 verso blank); v. 4: A-H¹² I⁶

Each volume has leaves of plates conjugate with text leaves but not included in pagination.

Publisher's booklist: [9] p. at end of v. 4.

Gottlieb, G. Early children's books, 139.

Gumuchian 4876.

English short title catalogue T144879.

John Carter Brown Library copy half bound in contemporary calf with marbled boards.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Sophia Augusta Brown Fund.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: [Duke of] Gloucester: armorial bookplate on versos of front pastedowns of v. 1,2 and 4 and on the front pastedown of v. 3; Edward Pedder June 1800: armorial bookplate on front pastedown of v. 1-4; Susanna Clara Sully: autograph on recto of front pastedowns of v. 1-4.