BIBLIOGRAPHY OF R. L. STEVENSON
LIST OF ETCHINGS.
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| The Queen's Entry into Edinburgh in 1876, | Frontispiece |
| Advocates' Close, | 6 |
| Greyfriars, Edinburgh, | 18 |
| Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh, | 24 |
| View from Calton Hill, | 28 |
| Distant View of Edinburgh, | 36 |
There are also twelve woodcuts in the text.
This work was originally published in The Portfolio, vol. ix., June-December 1878, pp. 82-85, 104-108, 125-128, 130-134, 146-150, 162-165, 189-192, and, though dated 1879, was issued in book form in December 1878 at the price of eighteen shillings. It has now considerably increased in value, copies selling at auctions from four to seven guineas, according to condition.
First Octavo Edition: 1888.
Edinburgh | Picturesque Notes | by | Robert Louis Stevenson | Author of An Inland Voyage, Treasure Island, etc. | New Edition | (Woodcut, View of Princes Street, Edinburgh) | London | Seeley & Co. Essex Street, Strand, | 1888.
Collation :—Crown octavo, pp. viii+180, consisting of Half-title, Edinburgh, pp. [i, ii], verso blank; Title-page as above, pp. [iii, iv], verso blank ; Contents, pp. [v, vi], verso blank ; List of Illustrations, pp. [vii, viii], verso blank ; Text, pp. [l]-180; at the foot of page 180 is the imprint, ‘London | Printed by Strangeways & Sons, Tower St., Cambridge Circus.’
Issued in the roxburghe style of binding, grey cloth boards with persian leather back, the tops gilt, other edges uncut, lettered on back, within a plain line border, ‘Edinburgh, | Picturesque | Notes | By R. L. Stevenson,’ in gold.
This edition does not contain the etchings by Brunet-Debaines which were contained in the first issue, but the woodcuts are numerously reproduced.
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