BEAUTIFULLY BOUND SET OF STEVENSON’S WORKS

STEVENSON, Robert Louis. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson. Edinburgh: T. and A. Constable, 1894-98. Thirty-four volumes. Octavo, contemporary full green morocco gilt, raised bands, elaborately gilt-decorated boards and spines with red and white morocco onlays, red morocco gilt doublures, watered silk endpapers, top edges gilt, uncut and larglely unopened. $25,000.

Limited “Edinburgh” edition, number 133 of 1035 copies, of this comprehensive set of Stevenson’s writings, together with his letters and a biography of Stevenson, in a beautiful and elaborate morocco-gilt binding with leather onlays and morocco doublures.

"Few writers have during their lifetime commanded so much admiration and regard from their fellow-craftsmen… Energy of vision goes hand in hand with magic of presentment, and both words and things acquire new meaning and a new vitality under his touch" (DNB). This handsome set of Stevenson's works includes such classics as Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and A Child's Garden of Verses, along with travel pieces, essays, and juvenilia. With an introduction by Andrew Lang. In addition to the 28 volumes of the Edinburgh edition, this set also includes a one-volume Stevensoniana (London, 1903), two volumes of his letters (London, 1900), Balfour's two-volume biography of Stevenson (London, 1901) and Prideaux's bibliography (London, 1903). Beineke 737. Bookplates.

Foxing to preliminaries of some volumes and the two Life volumes, marginal dampstaining to the first few leaves of In the South Seas; spines toned to brown. FIX.