The works of Robert Louis Stevenson / with bibliographical notes by Edmund Gosse
1906, First Pentland Edition. London: Cassell and Company Limited in association with Chatto and Windus, William Heinemann, and Longmans Green and Company. 20 Volumes. Very good copies in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Limited and numbered this is number 152 of only 1550. Item #367088
Physical description: 20 volumes: frontispieces, illustrations; 23 cm. Contents: v. 1. An inland voyage. Travels with a donkey in the Cevennes. A mountain town in France. Edinburgh: picturesque notes -- v. 2. The amateur emigrant, The old and new Pacific capitals. The Silverado squatters. "Virginibus puerisque". Other papers -- v. 3. Familiar studies of men and books. The body-snatcher -- v. 4. New Arabian nights. The story of a lie -- v. 5. Treasure island. Will o' the mill. The treasure of Franchard -- v. 6. Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Thrawn Janet. The merry men. More new Arabian nights. The dynamiter -- v. 7. Prince Otto. The wrong box -- v. 8. The Black Arrow. Markheim. The misadventures of John Nicholson -- v. 9. Memoirs and portraits. Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin F.R.S., L.L.D. -- v. 10. Kidapped. Catriona, part I -- v. 11. Catriona, part II. The Master of Ballantrae -- v. 12. The wrecker / written in collaboration with LLoyd Osbourne -- v. 13. A child's garden of verses. Underwoods. Ballads. Songs of travel. Additional poems. v. 14. Deacon Brodie. Beau Austin. Admiral Guinea. Macaire -- v. 15. Records of a family of engineers. Additional memories and portraits. Later essays. Lay morals. Prayers written for family use at Vailima -- v. 16. A footnote to history. Island nights' entertainments. Olalla. Heathercat -- v. 17. In the South Seas. Letters from Samoa -- v. 18. The ebb-tide. Weir of Hermiston. The Great North Road. The young chevalier -- v. 19. St. Ives, being the adventures of a French prisoner in England -- v. 20. Juvenilia, and other papers. Fables. The Davos Press. Subjects: Scottish literature 19th century. English literature Scottish authors 19th century. English Literature.
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