by David Faulds, Rare Book Cataloger, dfaulds@emory.edu
The Life of Robinson Crusoe,
of York, Mariner, 1719
Robinson Crusoe is one of the few works of fiction whose popularity has lasted not just decades but centuries. MARBL is fortunate to own one of the largest collections of Robinson Crusoe in the world. Known as the Robert and Miriam Lovett Robinson Crusoe Collection it was given to Emory in 2008 by Bob Lovett, a retired English professor at Wake Forest University and author of Robinson Crusoe : A Bibliographical Checklist of English Language Editions (1719-1979), the standard bibliography of the work. The cataloging of the over 800 titles that comprise the collection was recently completed.
