The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson. Edinburgh Edition. edit

1894 [-98] Edinburgh Edition (28 vols.)

London: Charles Baxter & Sidney Colvin on behalf of Robert Louis Stevenson (printed by Constable, distributed by Chatto & Windus).

I. Miscellanies Vol. I: Picturesque Notes on Edinburgh / Memories and Portraits / 5 ‘additional Memories and Portraits’ from Across the Plains with Other Memories and Essays (Nov 1894) [1]

II. Travels and Excursions, Vol. I: An Inland Voyage / Travels With a Donkey (Dec 1894) [2]

III. Travels and Excursions, Vol. II: The Amateur Emigrant / Across the Plains / The Silverado Squatters / Monterey / San Francisco* (Jan 1895) [3]

IV. Tales and Fantasies Vol. I: New Arabian Nights / Pavilion / Lodging / Malétroit / Providence (Feb 1895) [4]

V. Miscellanies Vol. II: Familiar Studies of Men and Books (Mar 1895) [5]

VI. Romances Vol. I: Treasure Island (Apr 1895)

VII. Tales and Fantasies Vol. II: The Dynamiter / The Story of a Lie (May 1895) [6]

VIII. Tales and Fantasies Vol. III: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / The Merry Men and Other Tales (Jun 1895) [7]

IX. Romances Vol. II: Prince Otto (Jul 1895) [8]

X. Romances Vol. III: The Black Arrow (Aug 1895)

XI. Miscellanies Vol. III: Virginibus Puerisque / Later Essays: Fontainbleau, Realism*, Style*, Morality*, Books which have Influenced Me, Day after Tomorrow*, Letter to a Young Gentleman, Pulvis, Christmas Sermon, Damien (Sep 1895) [9]

XII. Romances Vol. IV: Kidnapped (Oct 1895) [10]

XIII. Romances Vol. V: Catriona (Nov 1895)

XIV. Poetry: A Child’s Garden of Verses / Underwoods / Ballads / Songs of Travel* (Dec 1895)

XV. Romances Vol. VI: The Master of Ballantrae (Jan 1896)

XVI. South Sea Yarns Vol. I: The Wrecker, vol. I (Mar 1896) [11]

XVII. South Sea Yarns Vol. II: The Wrecker, vol. 2 (Mar 1896) [12]

XVIII. Biography: Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin / Records of a Family of Engineers** (Apr 1896)

XIX. South Sea Yarns Vol. III: Island Nights' Entertainments / The Ebb-Tide (May 1896) [13]; [14]

XX. Travels and Excursions, Vol. III: In the South Seas* (Jun 1896) Supplementary volumes:

XXI. Miscellanies Vol. IV: Juvenilia and Other Papers –: Pentland** / Satirist** / Nuits** / Wreath** / Nurses** / A Character** / Edinburgh Students* / Modern Student* / Debating Societies* / Umbrellas* / Nomenclature* / Retrospect** / Cockermouth** / Roads* / Young Children* / Unpleasant Places* / Autumn Effect* / Carrick* / Forest Notes* / Mountain Town in France* / Lytton’s Fables* / Salvini’s* / Bagster’s* / Appeal to the Clergy / My First Book / Genesis of Ballantrae** / Rosa quo locorum** / Lay Morals** / Prayers** (Dec 1896) [15]

XXII. Tales and Fantasies Vol IV: The Misadventures of John Nicholson / The Wrong Box / Fables (Feb 1897) [16]

XXIII. Drama: Brodie Austin Guinea / Macaire (Apr 1897)

XXIV. Correspondence: Vailima Letters (Jun 1897) [17]

XXV. History: Footnote to History / Letters to The Times etc.* / Letters to Young People* (Oct 1897)

XXVI. Romances Vol. VII: The Great North Road* / The Young Chevalier** / Heathercat** / Weir of Hermiston (Dec 1897) [18]

XXVII. Romances Vol. VIII: St. Ives (May 1898)

XXVIII. Appendix: The Charity Bazaar / The Light-Keeper** / A New Form of Intermittent Light / On the Thermal Influence of Forests / Reflections and Remarks on Human Life** / The Ideal House** / Preface to The Master of Ballantrae** / Moral Emblems (facsimiles) / Moral Tales (facsimiles). (Jun 1898). This volume was also published separately as a limited edition with the title A Stevenson Medley, London: Chatto & Windus, 1898. [19]; [20]

Other volumes were produced "uniform with the 'Edinburgh Edition'" (dark crimson buckram, top edge gilt, other untrimmed, pasted-on red and black spine label; red and black title page); An Object of Pity (Edinburgh, 1898), The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson to his Family and Friends (2 vols, 1899), Balfour's Biography (2 vols, 1901), Prideaux' Bibliography (1903) and Hammerton's Stevensoniana (1910).

The Biographical Edition of the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson edit

Started to be issued from 1905; preface to most vols. by Mrs Stevenson (these had been printed together in a book of Registration Prefaces in 1905); 25 volumes in 1905; 27 volumes in 1907 (2 vols of letters added); 31 volumes in 1911 (Lay Morals and Other Papers, 2 more vols of letters, and the abridged 1-vol. ed of Balfour’s Biography added).

NOVELS AND ROMANCES edit

SHORTER STORIES edit

  1. New Arabian Nights [27], [28]
  2. The Dynamiter [29]
  3. The Merry Men [30], nd
  4. Island Nights' Entertainments [31], 1917

ESSAYS, TRAVELS & SKETCHES edit

  • An Inland Voyage [32], 1905
  •   Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
  • Virginibus Puerisque [33]
  • Familiar Studies [34], 1905 (no intro)
  • The Amateur Emigrant and The Silverado Squatters
  • Memories and Portraits [35], 1906 (no intro)
  • In the South Seas [36], 1909 (no intro)
  • Across the Plains [37], 1905 (no intro)
  • Essays of Travel and in the art of Writing [38], 1905 (no intro)
  • Lay Morals and Other Papers [39], 1911

POEMS edit

  • Complete Poems [40], 1905

LETTERS edit

  • THE LETTERS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. VOL. I [41], [42], [43]
  • THE LETTERS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. VOL. II [44], [45], [46], [47]
  • THE LETTERS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. VOL. III [48], [49]
  • THE LETTERS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. VOL. IV [50]

THE LIFE OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON By Graham Balfour. Abridged Edition in one volume [51], 1916