EDINBURGH; Picturesque Notes / Robert Louis Stevenson / With twenty-three Photographs by Alvin Langdon Coburn and a Preface by Jane Adam Smith

Stevenson, Robert Louis & Coburn, Alvin Langdon (photos)

Published by Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1954

Condition: Very Good Hardcover

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Small quarto [4to] ,7 5/8"x 10") white paper over boards with silver spine lettering, Preface by Janet Adam Smith, illustrated with 23 B&W gravure photos by Alvin Langdon Coburn, archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (price-clipped) with image by Coburn, 107 pages. This is the well-produced first photogravure illustrated edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's second book (1878) reprinted with important photographs by Alvin Langdon Coburn and printed by the Chiswick Press. Alvin Langdon Coburn (1882 - 1966) was an early 20th-century photographer and a key figure in the development of American pictorialism. Elected a member of Alfred Stieglitz's Photo-Secession, he became the first major photographer to emphasize elevated viewpoints, cityscapes--as here--, and later made some of the first completely abstract photographs. During World War I, Coburn became involved with the Vorticists, among them Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound. In his pursuit of abrstract art, the photographer even invented a kaleidoscopic lens attachment that created fragmented images which Pound dubbed a "Vortescope." (Note impressionistic plates 1, 11, & 16.) Coburn also took noteworthy photos of George Bernard Shaw, Henry James, and William Butler Yeats. Condition: Cloth and contents are Very Good in a Good slightly age-toned dust jacket (price-clipped). Tight, internally clean copy. Light bumps to corners and touching edges. A 1/4" nick to the inner lip of the rear pastedown. Top of d/w spine frayed, and there's a clean 1" tear at the top of the rear dj. Photo plates remarkably clean and unfoxed. First Thus Reprinted with Coburn Photographs by Chiswick Press. Seller Inventory # 5297

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Title: EDINBURGH; Picturesque Notes / Robert Louis ...

Publisher: Rupert Hart-Davis, London

Publication Date: 1954

Binding: Cloth

Illustrator: Alvin Langdon Coburn

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Good

Edition: 1st Edition

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