Robinson Crusoe : Mit 111 Holzschnitten
This is a German illustrated edition of Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe, published in Leipzig by Wigand in 1839 with 111 woodcuts, aimed at general readers and young people. The pictures are small black-and-white woodcuts in a dense, hatched line style, showing shipwreck survivors, a castaway in a fur cap, musket fights in jungle clearings, and family groups on the ground. A designer could take from them the economical crosshatching and small-scale narrative staging typical of nineteenth-century German book illustration.
