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Octavo, [20.625cm/8.25inches], full gilt-embossed halfbound, ox-blood coloured calf-bound marbled boards sans dust jacket, -as issued-, pp. 467, w/ deckled edges. Illustrated by John Rueben Bacon. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. . The online Robert Louis Stevenson Archive, -[www.robert-louis-stevenson.org]-, notes: "Sets: ill. de luxe ed. of 1000 copies. Bdg: One set is described as: Marbled boards, leather spine and corners, laid paper, black & white illustrations and tissue covered frontis, marbled endpapers. Beautifully illustrated by John Rueben Bacon. Spehner lists publisher as Bigelow, Smith & Co, National Library, 1906, Davos Press. The U. of Texas at Austin catalogue gives publisher as New York: National Library Co. and doesn t mention the name Manhattan Edition . Vol 8 includes Stevenson as a Poet by Edmund Gosse; vol 9 includes 'A critical essay on Robert Louis Stevenson by Leslie Stephen; vol. 10 includes Life of Robert Louis Stevenson by Sidney Colvin. A correspondent has a copy dated 1905. The book is from the library of Hugh Parks Jr. the owner of The Franklinsville Manufacturing Company in Randolph County North Carolina. [At the turn of the (19th)century, both Hugh Parks, Jr., the mill owner, and George Russell, the mill superintendent, were amateur photographers. Their work is now indistinguishable, as the oldest Franklinville photographs all descended among members of the Parks and Makepeace families, who were related to both Parks and Russell. Approximately the time of the 1923 sale of the Franklinsville Manufacturing Company to Randolph Mills, Inc., George Russell compiled a an extensive written and photographic history of the mill in identical scrapbooks, one kept by him and one given to Hugh Parks, Jr. The Parks scrapbook descended to Carrie Parks Stamey, the middle daughter of Hugh Parks, Jr., and was copied in 1985. Mrs. Stamey also possessed a number of unique individual photographs, which were also copied at that time. The George Russell scrapbook descended to Margaret Williams of Franklinville, and was given to Mac Whatley in 1987" -See: Notes on the History of Randolph County North Carolina [randolphhistory.wordpress.com/category/textile-history] In exceptionally good condition. Seller Inventory # 25311
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Bibliographic Details
Title: The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Volume ...
Publisher: National Library Company, New York
Publication Date: 1906
Binding: Hardcover
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Edition: Ltd. Edition of 1,000 copies.
