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Stevenson, Robert Louis.

'VIRGINIBUS PUERISQUE' AND OTHER PAPERS.

H.B. Turner, Boston., 1902

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Year of publication
1902
Author
Stevenson, Robert Louis.
Publishers
H.B. Turner, Boston.
Keyword
PUBLISHERS BINDINGS STEVENSION FICTION ILLUSTRATED 1905., BINDINGS FICTION. ILLUSTRATED
Binding description
S Soft cover
State of preservation
Very Good
Languages
English
Binding
Softcover

Description

pp. ix, 256, +Plus frontis portrait and marginal illustrations. 12mo. 200mm. Publisher's maroon cloth binding with cover lettered and decorated with gilt leaf design. Cover designed by Theodore Brown Hapgood with monogram. Spine lettered and decorated similarly. Cover gilt is bright and spine gilt rubbed. Spine faded and rubbed. Corners sharp but frayed lightly. Bookplate on inside pastedown 'The Homestead Elizabeth Caivield Selden. Love Well The Hour And Let It Go.' Hardbound. Very Good+. Virginibus Puerisque (1881) was the first collection of Stevenson's essays. They are personal essays in the tradition of Lamb and Hazlitt, which were previously published in the prestigious Cornhill Magazine. NW59