Weir of Hermiston. An Unfinished Romance by Robert Louis Stevenson.

  • Stevenson, Robert Louis
  • London: Chatto and Windus 1896
  • Prideaux 45.

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Description

FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. [viii], 289, [3], 32 (ads, dated March 1896). Title-page printed in red and black. Original dark blue cloth, bevelled boards, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Some spotting. Staining to endpapers, boards rubbed and scratched, spine heavily sunned. Inscription ‘Gartmore’ to flyleaf (the home of R.B. Cunninghame Graham), bookseller’s embossment of WH Smith.

Notes

The first publication of this novel, left unfinished at Stevenson's death but often considered a potential masterpiece, with the style distinctly different from the author's completed works.

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