STEVENSON, Robert Louis.

The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson.

"Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well": The Edinburgh Edition of The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson; Finely bound by Zaehnsdorf

London: Printed by T. and A. Constable For Longmans Green and Co: Cassell and Co. Seeley and Co: Chas. Scribner's Sons and Sold by Chatto and Windus, 1894.

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The Edinburgh edition of the works of Robert Louis Stevenson. Octavo, 33 volumes bound in three quarter crushed levant morocco over marbled boards by Zaehnsdorf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbons bound in, tissue-guarded frontispiece to select volumes, original paper spine labels tipped in at rear of each volume. Appendix volume with tipped-in chapbooks, as issued. One of one thousand and thirty-five numbered copies. this is number 399. Uniformly bound with five additional biographical volumes: Balfour, Life of Robert Louis Stevenson [two volumes, London: Methuen, 1901]; The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson [two volumes, London: Methuen, 1899]; Stevensoniana [one volume, London: Grant Richards, 1903]. In very good condition.

"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).