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Lot 14
  • 14

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description

  • The Works. London: William Heinemann, et al, 1922–1923
  • leather, ink, gilt
26 volumes, 8vo (8 3/4 x 5 5/8 in.; 223 x 145 mm). Title-pages printed in red and black, frontispieces and plates, extra-illustrated in volume 1 with the insertion of a printed check accomplished and signed by Stevenson, Edinburgh, 14 May 1887, drawn on the Wilts & Dorset Banking Company in favor of his housekeeper, Valentine Roch, for £10. Original three-quarter crushed blue morocco over marbled boards, spines gilt in six compartments, endpapers marbled en suite, top edges gilt, others uncut; slightest rubbing to corners of a number of volumes.

Literature

Beinecke 748

Condition

26 volumes, 8vo (8 3/4 x 5 5/8 in.; 223 x 145 mm). Title-pages printed in red and black, frontispieces and plates. Original three-quarter crushed blue morocco over marbled boards, spines gilt in six compartments, endpapers marbled en suite, top edges gilt, others uncut; slightest rubbing to corners of a number of volumes.
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Catalogue Note

The Vailima Edition, number 907 of 1,060 sets.