STEVENSON | Treasure Island, 1883

STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS

Treasure Island. Cassell & Company, 1883

8vo, FIRST EDITION, EARLY ISSUE (deadman's chest without capitals; "worse" for "worst"; the period is dropped from line 20 of p.178; advertisements dated 5R-1283), half-title, chart frontispiece printed in four colours, original green cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, 8pp. of publisher's catalogue, black-coated endpapers, spotting, slightly skewed

“The finest tale of maritime adventure that has been told since Defoe produced his great romance” (Prideaux)

LITERATURE:

Prideaux 11

PROVENANCE:

Harry Eaton Hart, bookplate

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