The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 10

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Some foxing to a few volumes. Crack to hinge and tissue page partially detached in "Treasure Island.

Gilt top page edges. Most volumes retain spare title labels. Limited to 1, copies, this set hand-numbered and initialed. Laid-in Volume One, Miscellanies, causing some toning to those end papers, is an original bumped and a bit foxed clipping containing an obiturary of Robert Louis Stevenson, dated Dec. Stevenson passed on Dec. A beautiful, scarce set.

Evolving Lens Bookseller Published: Published in twenty five volumes, this is an incomplete set comprising of twenty volumes. As stated to edition page the swanston edition was limited to copies of which copies are for sale. This set is number of Frontispiece to all volumes.

The Works Of Robert Louis Stevenson

In Hatchards bindings, as indicated from binder's stamp to verso of front endpaper. Volumes present are as follows: Memories and Portraits Volume XI: The Merry Men Fables. Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, wssayist and travel writers. The volume containing his well known Treasure Island is not present to this set. Crack to front joint of volume II from head to halfway down. Small cracks to head and tail of rear joint to volume II.

Front hinge to volume II is slightly strained but firm. Loss to head and tail of spine to volume V. Small crack to the spine of volume VII. Crack to tail of front joint to volume VII. Crack to rear joint of volume VII. Loss to head and tail of spine to volume VII. Front hinge to volume VIII is slightly strained but firm. Small loss to the head of volume XIV. Loss to head and tail of joints to volume XVI due to rubbing. Crack to spine of volume XVII. Crack to rear joint to volume XX. Loss to head and tail of volume XXV,Priorowner's initials to rectoof front endpaper to majority of volumes.

Internally, all volumes are firmly bound. Pages are bright with the odd spot throughout. Ribbon bookmarks present to all volumes. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: A scarce set of the collected works of Robert Louis Stevenson. Complete in twenty volumes, this edition was part of a limited printing of copies, of which this is number As such, the collection sees Stevenson's fiction and non-fiction, writing of his own opinions and experiences as much as creating these for his characters.

The collection was published at a time before Stevenson's work would be disparaged in favour ofModernist Literature, which would make a departure from the escapism that prevailed in the popular work of the Nineteenth Century. This dismissal of Stevenson's work failed to take into account the author's literary and social criticism, as well as his humanist and anti-imperialist viewpoints this latter aspect seen here particularly in The Ebb-Tide , which would perhaps have seen him viewed in more favour.

The result was relatively far-reaching in that he would be deemedunworthy of mentionin the definitiveNorton Anthology of English Literature until ; a century after this collection was published. A bibliography and introduction is here provided by Edmund Gosse, a prominent literarycritic of his time and a aquaintance and contemporary of the likes of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning and Thomas Hardy.

Gosse, among his other many achievements is largely credited in helping to popularise the work of Henrik Ibsen to English-speaking audiences. Each volume contains a bookplate to the pastedown, bearing the design of 'Newberry'. In cloth binding with gilt detailing. Externally quite smart, there are some instances of wear to the extremities, as well as sunning to the backstrip and markings to boards. Internally, the pages are firmly bound and are bright and clean throughout, aside from the usual instances of foxing to the endpapers.

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Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Better World Books Condition: Schooner Books Ltd Published: All volumes have the spines slightly sunned otherwise in very good condition Edition: Edinburgh Edition, limited edition of this signed W. Stevenson, Robert Louis hardback. With bibliographical notes by Edmund Gosse. Black buckram, spine lettering gilt. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Illustrated with tissue-guarded frontispieces to each volume and11 facsimiles.

The Dynamiter; Strange Case of Dr. MiscellaneaThis edition, printed from type which has been distributed, is strictly limited to one thousand and sixty sets, of which one thousand are for sale in the United Kingdom and sixty are for presentation.

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With prefatory material by Fanny Stevenson. This is numbered A literary celebrity during his lifetime, Stevenson now ranks among the 26 most translated authors in the world. Chesterton, who said of him that he seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins. Complete in twenty-six volumes. In purple cloth bindings. Externally, sound, though with some sunning and slight rubbing, along with some light dampstaining to the boards.

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