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STEVENSON, Robert Louis (1850-1894)

Lot 188
14.12.2022 10:30UTC +00:00
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Lot 188 | STEVENSON, Robert Louis (1850-1894)
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STEVENSON, Robert Louis (1850-1894)

Treasure Island. London: Cassell & Co. Ltd., 1883.

First edition in book form, an association copy from the distinguished library of A.G. Dew-Smith, famed for his photograph of the author. Dew-Smith was a Cambridge associate of Stevenson and a skilled photographer, whose portrait of the author was said to capture his likeness better than any other. His character is regarded as the inspiration for Attwater in Stevenson’s Ebb-Tide (1894). Originally serialized in the children’s magazine Young Folks, Treasure Island remains one of the greatest and most popular adventure novels in English. With the following issue points: 'dead man's chest' not capitalized on pp. 2 and 7; the '7' is stamped in on the pagination of p. 127; the full-stop is omitted from line 20 of p. 178; and 'worse' for 'worst' in line 3 at p. 197. There is some disagreement over the priority of the four extant bindings/publisher's ads; the present is Beinecke's first issue of ads, but in red-brown rather than blue cloth. Beinecke 240; Prideaux 11.



Octavo (190 x 121mm). Half-title, lithographic map frontispiece printed in colours. 4pp. ads dated 5G-783 at end (bookplate adhesive show-through on front-free endpaper, light variable scattered spotting throughout, frontispiece faintly frayed and dust-soiled at lower edge, pp.275-282 faintly creased at top corner). Original red-brown cloth lettered in gilt on spine, black endpapers (inner hinges starting to crack, slight lean, some faint rubbing to extremities); contained in a calf-backed box. Provenance: Albert George Dew-Smith (1848-1903, portrait photographer; small neat pencil ownership inscription dated December 1883 on verso of title) – A. Edward Newton (1864-1940, American industrialist, author and book collector; 'Hobby Rider' bookplate) – Frank Graham (bookplate).





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