Sales catalogue 629: Maggs Bros

Date:
1936
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/166
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 629: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SIR WALTER SCOTT. 278 Kenilworth: A Romance. First EpDITION. 3 vols. Post 8vo, uncut copy in original boards. Edinburgh, 1821. £12 12s 279 Waverley: or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. FIRST EDITION. 3 vols. 12mo, a very fine copy in contemporary half calf. Edinburgh, 1814. £52 10s Complete with the half-title and imprint leaves. 280 Woodstock: or, The Cavalier. A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-One. FIRST EDITION. Post 8vo, fine copy in the original boards, with the paper labels. Uncut. Edinburgh, 1826. | aoa 25S 2381 E. G@ SOMERVILLE and “MARTIN ROSS.” Further Exper. iences of an Irish R.M. With 35 illustrations. First EDITION. Post 8vo, original cloth. London, 1908. &2 2S 282 ———— In Mr. Knox’s Country. With 8 full-page illustrations by E. Somerville. FIRST EDITION. Post 8vo, original cloth. London, 1915. &1 is PRESENTATION Copy to HIs MOTHER. 283 STEVENSON (R. L.). The Ebb-Tide: A Trio and Quartette. FIRST EDITION. Post 8vo, original cloth, uncut. London, 1894. £63 Presentation Copy from Robert Louis Stevenson to his Mother, with inscription by her on fly-leaf:—‘ This is my Presentation Copy of the Ebb Tide, but my dear Son always forgot to put his name on it till it was too late. M. I. Stevenson, Dec. 1894.”’ This book was written in collaboration with his step-son Lloyd Osbourne, who has made a further interesting inscription on the fly-title:—‘ To Aunt Maggie. In memory of the patrimoni & the never-to-be-forgotten days of our voyaging in the Eastern Pacific, from hers ever affectionately, Lloyd Osbourne. Vailima, March 3rd, 1895.” Mrs. Stevenson joined her son at Vailima in the Spring of 1891 and remained there till after his death (December 4th, 1894). This volume was evidently inscribed by Lloyd Osbourne when Mrs. Stevenson was leaving Vailima. His MoruHer’s Copy. 284 ———— New Arabian Nights. First EDITION. 2 vols., post 8vo, original cloth, uncut. London, 1882. &150 With 32 pp. advertisements, dated May, 1882. Mrs. Stevenson’s (R. L.’s mother) Copy, with her signature and note “M. I. Stevenson. This was my original presentation copy, but through a mistake it never was signed by the Author. M. I. S.” PRESENTATION Copy To H1s MorHEr. 285 ———— More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter. New Edition. Small 8vo, original cloth. London, 1885. £52 10s With interesting autograph inscription by the author on half-title:— *“Consolation Copy, in return for one that has been lost by the incurable incuria of my mother. Robert Louis Stevenson.” [31]
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