Lot 147
  • 147

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description

  • The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson. Edinburgh: T. and A. Constable, 1894-1898; London: Methuen and Co., 1901; London: Frank Hollings, 1903; Edinburgh: John Grant, 1907
  • paper, ink, leather
34 volumes, 8vo. Titles printed in red and black, engraved frontispieces and plates, appendix volume with small booklets tipped in. Three-quarter black morocco over decorated boards, spines with raised bands in six compartments, titles and text in two, others with floral gilt devices, endpapers marbled, top edges gilt, others uncut; slight rubbing to extremities.

Literature

Prideaux 209

Catalogue Note

THE EDINBURGH EDITION, one of 1,035 sets. Complete in 28 volumes, additional titles in this set include: The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, ed. Sidney Colvin (2 vols.); The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson, by Graham Balfour (2 vols.); A Bibliography of Robert Louis Stevenson, by W.F. Prideaux; Stevensonia, by J.A. Hammerton.