Description
NO. 755 OF 1,035 COPIES, 29 vols., 8vo. Original red cloth, printed paper labels. Labels just slightly soiled. Each vol. numbered and initialled by the publisher on the limitation page.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson. Edinburgh Edition. [With:] Stevensoniana [Grant Richards, 1903].
- Edinburgh: Printed by T. and A. Constable for Longmans Green and Co. [et al] 1894
- Prideaux Part VI.
£500
Notes
A sharp example of the first and finest set of Stevenson's works, begun with the author's approval shortly before his death. Initially intended to fill 20 volumes, subscribers received a total of 27 numbered volumes plus an 'appendix' of miscellanea and facsimiles of small works. It set such a standard that in the following decade a half dozen supplementary volumes were issued in matching bindings by other publishers, though unnumbered and not properly part of the edition - letters in two volumes, a 'life' in two volumes, Prideaux's bibliography, and Hammerton's Stevensoniana. This set is accompanied by the Stevensoniana volume.
