Estimate: | £100 - £150 |
Hammer price: | £50 |
STEVENSON, Robert Louis (1850-94). Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes. London: Chatto and Windus, 1909. Large 8vo (230 x 160mm). Half title, title printed in blue, 12 coloured and 12 monochrome mounted plates by Noel Rooke (half title with patchy browning, a few very light spots and stains). Original pictorial vellum gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut. Provenance: C. Mackenzie, April 10th 1922 (signature on front free endpaper). NUMBER 70 OF 100 COPIES. With 2 other illustrated books, namely Heinrich von Kleist’s Das Erdbeben in Chili (Berlin, [1921], lithographed plates by Alois Kolb, original vellum and patterned boards, ONE OF 400 COPIES, signed in pencil by the artist on the title) and Charles Kingsley’s The Water Babies (London, Boots the Chemists, [1929], coloured plates by Jessie Wilcox Smith, original pictorial cloth, dust-jacket, A FINE COPY). (3)