Author: STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS
Title: The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson. Longman 'Edinburgh Edition'. 26 Volumes + 5 Supplementary Volumes
Description: Edinburgh: Longman Green & Co, 1895. 'Edinburgh' Limited Edition [497/1035]. Maroon hardback cloth cover. 230mm x 160mm (9" x 6"). [11000pp]. B/w plates + maps. Very heavy set - extra shipping needed for overseas. The works are comprised of: 8 volumes of Romances [Treasure Island, Prince Otto, The Black Arrow, Adventures of David Balfour Parts I & II, The Master of Ballantyne, Weir of Hermiston and Other Fragments, St. Ives] + 3 volumes of South Sea Yarns [The Wrecker volumes I & II, Island Nights Entertainments; The Ebb-Tide] + 3 (of 4) volumes of Tales and Fantasies [New Arabian Nights, The Pavilion on the Links and Other Tales, More New Arabian Nights (The Dynamiter), The Story of a Lie, John Nicolson, The Young Box, Fables] + 3 volumes of Travels and Excursions [An Inland Voyage, Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes, The Amateur Emigrant, Pacific Capitals, the Silverado Squatters, In the South Seas] + 4 volumes of Miscellanies [Notes on Edinburgh; Memories and Portraits, Familiar Studies of Men and Books, Virginibus Puerisque, Later Essays, Juvenilia etc, Lay Morals, Prayers] + 1 volume of Poetry [A Child's Garden, Underwoods, Ballads, Songs of Travel] + 1 volume of Correspondence [Vailima Letters] + 1 volume of Drama [Deacon Brodie, Beau Austin, Admiral Guinea, Macaire] + 1 volume of Biographies [Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin, A Family of Engineers]. Published between 1894 and 1903. Each volume of the works hand numbered 497/1035 and initialled W.B.B. [W.B. Blaikie]. Spare title labels tipped in. Supplementary volumes, (all un-numbered), consist of: Letters to His Family and Friends, volumes I & II by Graham Balfour, published by Methuen in 1899; The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson, volumes I & II by Graham Balfour, published by Methuen in 1901; Stevensoniana edited by J A Hammerton, published by Grant Richards in 1903.. G: in good condition without dust jackets. Covers rubbed and marked. Edge-wear. Occasional inner hinge cracking. Fore and lower edges untrimmed. Light foxing to page edges and sporadically within. Non-uniform copies with rebound covers. Teg .

Keywords: Fiction Sets of Books 1850 - 1900 Antiquarian


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