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 (Description)  

Author: J.R. Wyss. (Charles Folkard, illustrator).
Title: The Swiss Family Robinson by J. R. Wyss, retranslated and abridged by Audrey Butler, after the version of H. Frith from the Original Editions. Illustrated with line drawings and 8 colour plates by Charles Folkard.
Publisher: London, J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, New York, E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc., 1972.
Language: Text in English.
Size: 8" X 5.5".
Pages: ix-341 pages.
Binding: Attractive and fine binding finely bound by Bayntun in navy blue morocco leather with gilt decorations on the spine (hinges fine) under a protective removable mylar cover. All edges gilt. A very beautiful binding!
Content: Near fine content (bright, tight, and clean, binder's signature faded on top of the first blank - as shown). 
Illustrations: Complete with the line drawings and the beautiful 8 full-page illustrations by Charles Folkard.

The book: Beautiful edition of The Swiss Family Robinson (German: Der Schweizerische Robinson) is a novel by Johann David Wyss, first published in 1812, about a Swiss family of immigrants whose ship en route to Port Jackson, Australia, goes off course and is shipwrecked in the East Indies. The ship's crew is lost, but the family and several domestic animals survive. They make their way to shore, where they build a settlement, undergoing several adventures before being rescued; some refuse rescue and remain on the island.
The book is the most successful of a large number of "castaway novels" that were written in response to the success of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719). It has gone through a large number of versions and adaptations. This copy is in a wonderful Bayntun binding!

The author: Johann David Wyss (28 May 1743 – 11 January 1818) was a Swiss author, best remembered for his book The Swiss Family Robinson (Der schweizerische Robinson) (1812).

The illustrator: Charles Folkard (1878–1963), was an English illustrator and comics artist. He worked as a conjuror before becoming a prolific illustrator of children’s books. In 1915, he created Teddy Tail, a popular cartoon character who ran in the Daily Mail newspapers for decades. Folkard is well known for his work on The Arabian Nights, Grimms' Fairy Tales, Aesop's Fables, and Pinocchio.

The binder: George Bayntun was born in 1873 in Bath, England. After an apprenticeship, he began his own bookbinding business in Bath in 1894, binding books by hand with great craftsmanship. Although many binders were using machines in their process, Bayntun refused to use modern techniques.
In 1920, George Baynton purchased the business of George Gregory, Bookseller. The shop was frequently visited by Queen Mary throughout his final years.
In 1939, the George Bayntun firm acquired the Rivière Bindery, and Bayntun passed away the following year.