Works of Robert Louis Stevenson [Pentland Edition]: With Bibliographical Notes by Edmund Gosse
by STEVENSON, Robert Louis
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London: Cassell and Company Limited, 1906. Full description:
STEVENSON, Robert Louis. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson [Pentland Edition]. With Bibliographical Notes by Edmund Gosse. London: Cassell and Company Limited, 1906-1907.
The Pentland Edition. One of 1550 numbered copies, this being number 554. Complete in twenty octavo volumes (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 217 x 140 mm).
Bound by Riviere & Son in half dark green morocco over green cloth. Boards double ruled in gilt. Spines stamped and lettered in gilt. Blue endpapers. All spines uniformly sunned to a golden brown. Top edges gilt. Previous owner's bookplate in front pastedowns. Overall an about fine set.
Beinecke. Prideaux.
HBS 68898.
$4,000.
STEVENSON, Robert Louis. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson [Pentland Edition]. With Bibliographical Notes by Edmund Gosse. London: Cassell and Company Limited, 1906-1907.
The Pentland Edition. One of 1550 numbered copies, this being number 554. Complete in twenty octavo volumes (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 217 x 140 mm).
Bound by Riviere & Son in half dark green morocco over green cloth. Boards double ruled in gilt. Spines stamped and lettered in gilt. Blue endpapers. All spines uniformly sunned to a golden brown. Top edges gilt. Previous owner's bookplate in front pastedowns. Overall an about fine set.
Beinecke. Prideaux.
HBS 68898.
$4,000.
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- Bookseller
- Heritage Book Shop, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 68898
- Title
- Works of Robert Louis Stevenson [Pentland Edition]
- Author
- STEVENSON, Robert Louis
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Cassell and Company Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1906
- Keywords
- English Literature|Sets
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- Edges
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- Gilt
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- Fine
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- Morocco
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- Octavo
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