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A very scarce complete limited edition twenty volume set of this collection from the author of Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. A very scarce complete twenty volume set of works by Robert Louis Stevenson, with bibliographical notes by Edmund Gosse.The Pentland Editions.A limited edition set, with these being No. 1022/1550.A fantastic set of works by Louis Robert Stevenson, best known as the author of the children"s classicTreasure Island(1882), and the adult horror story,The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde(1886). Both of these novels have curious origins. A map of an imaginary island gave Stevenson the idea for the first story, and a nightmare supplied the premise of the second. In addition to memorable origins, these tales also share Stevenson"s key theme: the impossibility of identifying and separating good and evil.In publisher's original black cloth bindings.Each illustrated with a frontispiece.With the bookplate of Alexander James McNiell Reid, a Glasgow art dealer and amateur artist, and friend ofJames Abbott McNeill WhistlerandVincent van Gogh. He was one of the most influential art dealers in Europe in the early 20th century.Including:Vol I- An Inland Voyage, Travels With A Donkey In The Cevennes, A Mountain Town in France, Edinburgh: Picturesque NotesVol II- The Amateur Emigrant, The Old And New Pacific Capitals, The Silverado Squatters, "Virginibus Puerisque", And Other PapersVol III- Familiar, Studies of Men and Books, The Body-SnatcherVol IV- New Arabian Nights, The Story of a LieVol V- Treasure Island, Will O' The Mill, The Treasure of FranchardVol VI- Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Thrawn Janet, The Merry Men, More New Arrabian Nights, The DynamiterVol VII- Prince Otto, The Wrong BoxVol VIII- The Black Arrow, Markheim, The Misadventures of John NicholsonVol IX- Memories and Portraits, Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin, F.R.S., LL.D.Vol X- Kidnapped Being the Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour, Catriona- Part IVol XI- Catriona- Part II, The Master of BallantraeVol XII-The Wrecker written in collaboration with Lloyd OsbourneVol XIII- A Child's Garden of Verses, Underwoods, Ballads, Songs of Travel, Additional PoemsVol XIV- Deacon Brodie, Beau Austin, Admiral Guinea, MacaireVol XV- Records of a Family of Engineers, Additional Memoires and Portraits, Later Essays, Lay Morals, Prayers Written for Family Use at Vailima Vol XVI- A Footnote to History, Island Nights' Entertainments, Olalla, HeathercatVol XVII-In The South Seas, Letters From SamoaVol XVIII- The Ebb-Tide, Weir of Hermistor, The Great North Road, The Young ChevalierVol XIX- St. Ives Being the Adventures Of A French Prisoner In EnglandVol XX- Juvenilia and Other Papers, Fables, The Davos Press In publisher's original black cloth binding. Externally, generally very smart. Book plate to front paste downs. Offsetting to free endpapers. Spotting to paste downs. Bumping to heads and tails of spines. Slight fading to spines. Occasional light rubbing to boards. Mark to front board of Vol XII, Vol XIII, Vol VI, and Vol XX. Rear hinge cracking to Vol XIII, Vol XIX, Vol VII. Front hinge cracked to Vol VII. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with the odd spotting and age toning, most significant to the front and rear of the works. Very Good.
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