Kidnapped
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ID 1472042
Lot 120 | Kidnapped
Valeur estimée
25000USD $ 25 000 – 35 000
Four pages, in pencil, the manuscript written recto and verso and the drawings on rectos only, neatly inlaid to larger sheets and bound in an album along with a typed transcription and two later illustrations. Early 20th century morocco gilt-ruled and gilt-lettered, silk endleaves, all edges gilt (scuffed and nicked, hinges dry). Provenance: Illinois Institute of Technology Library (bookplate, gilt stamp and shelf label on upper cover); sold at: – Christie's New York, 8 April 2003, lot 220.
Two revealing manuscript drafts and two sketches for Kidnapped, including an apparently unpublished poem by R.L.S. Stevenson's hugely popular historical novel Kidnapped was set in the wild Scottish highlands in the troubled mid-18th-century. The main character, 16-year-old David Shaw Balfour, is kidnapped by a villainous uncle, escapes and befriends Alen Breck Stewart, a fiery Jacobite, and is caught up in the bitter armed struggle of the Scottish highlanders against English rule.
The two drafts are each headed "Kidnapped." The title-page, which Stevenson deliberately wanted to evoke the wordy title-pages of 18th-century sensationalist narratives, reads: "Kidnapped: Being containing the personal adventures of David Shaw; how he was Kidnapped and shipwrecked castaway; his voyage in the wild Highlands; and what he suffered from his uncle Ebenezer Shaw. Written by himself, And now first printed by Robert Louis Stevenson." Beneath, Stevenson has added an eight-line poem:
"On the grey rocks he stood
In his hand was the cold iron
A thousand pretty men had fallen before his hand,
Yet was the wrist not weary.
He turned and looked at the bright sun
That stood in the midst of heaven
Bright sun, when you are weary
So will be the sum of slaughter."
The poem, perhaps conceived as a prefatory verse, was not used in the published book. The accompanying manuscript, headed "Kidnapped David Shaw," appears to be an early outline or scheme for the novel. Each of the 22 segments has been neatly numbered, probably by Stevenson. These parallel but differ considerably from the 30 chapter headings ultimately adopted for the published book. Here, Stevenson records sequential elements of his story: "1 He leaves home - 2 Is he a chapter day on the journey? - 3 He comes to his uncle's house - 4 he has a dreadful fright - 5 He goes into Newcastle and meets Captain Hoseason - 6 On board the Kidnappers" etc. The final few chapter headings as presented here are "20 They come through the McGregor country to Callendar - 21 Where they are parties to a curious affair - 22 They come one night to his uncle's backdoor." Beneath, Stevenson has sketched a four-part structure for the book: "Part 1 Part 2. Kidnapped. Part 3. Castaway. Part 4 In With the wild Highlandmen."
| Artiste: | Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894) |
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| Lieu d'origine: | Angleterre, Écosse |
| Catégorie maison de vente aux enchères: | Lettres, documents et manuscrits |
| Artiste: | Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894) |
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| Lieu d'origine: | Angleterre, Écosse |
| Catégorie maison de vente aux enchères: | Lettres, documents et manuscrits |
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