The Library of an English Bibliophile, Part VI

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Lot 152
  • 152

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description

  • Stevenson, Robert Louis
  • Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1886
  • Paper
8vo (180 x 112mm.), FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, half-title, 1p. publisher's adverts at end, original peach cloth lettered in black on upper board, floral endpapers, collector's brown cloth folding box, lower board a little bubbled, slightly rubbed at head and foot of spine, contemporary ownership inscription to half-title

Literature

Mrs J. Insley Blair (1887-1952), book-label; her sale, Sotheby's New York, 3 December 2004, lot 247

Catalogue Note

A FINE COPY, preceded only by the American edition which was published by Scribner four days earlier.