 Author Name: SIMPSON, E. BLANTYRE.
Title: THE ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON ORIGINALS.
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Very Good
Edition: First American edition
Publisher: New York: Charles Scribners's Sons, 1913.
Seller ID: 4435
A biographical study of R.L.S. of the various areas and people in his life from where he drew his characters from. Illustrated with 31 tipped in plates, letter facsimiles. Tipped in oval color plate of R.L.S., creased to edge, with rubbed area. Simpson drew his sources from a lecture on R.L.S. as a dramatist, by Sir Arthur Pinero; Chambers Journal where he published many articles in his youth; Chronicle of Friendships, by Will Low's descriptions of the two cousin Stevensons in their Fountainbleau days when the lived with Loudon Dodd and his artist friends; Mrs. Thomas Stevenson's letters from Saranac (their cottage in Saranac Lake NY), and on a subsequent cruise; which tell of R.L.S. and his sea travels; from Vailima Table Talk (his life in Samoa, by his step-daughter, provides facts and insight into his mode of work when she was his amanuensus. The Appin murder trial, formed the basis of two modern novels besides Kidnapped and Catriona, is set forth in Notalble Trails, edited by David N. Mackay. Telling without the embellishment of fiction the shooting of Campbell of Glenure, the condemnationa and execution of James Stewart, and Alan Breck, one of R.L.S.'s truest originals. Including his friendship with Lord Guthrie, Stevenson's fellow student during their legal studies, Lord Guthrie lived for part of the year at the Stevenson's old summer home, Swanson Cottage, where he preserved and cared for collected portraits and relics of the the author.
Bound in brown buckram, with bright gilt lettering, title and publisher to spine mildly dulled. TEG, deckled fore-edges, some pages unopened. Moderate toning of text , foxing of rear e.p., and prelim. Oval color frontispiece of R.L.S. tipped in, painting by Count Nerli. Right side of portrait creased to edge. All else clean, tightly bound. In archival polyester protective film. 213 pp, 8 vo. Two pages of ads from The Literary Memoir Series. First Edition. Copyright page stating "First Published 1913". Click title for image.
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