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Synopsis

Being memoirs of the adventures of david balfour in the year 1751. how he was kidnapped and cast-away; his sufferings in a desert isle; his journey in the wild highlands; his acquaintance with alan breck stewart and other notorious highland jacobites; with all that he suffered at the hands of his uncle, ebenezer balfour of shaws, falsely so-called: written by himself and now set forth. by robert louis stevenson. with 16 illustrations by w. b. hole.

Item Description

8vo. 7.5 x 5.25 inches. [vi] + [ii] + 311 pp. + [15] pp. publisher's catalogue. Bound in original dark green cloth, gilt, with black block on front board. Patterned endpapers. Extremities a little worn with slight damp cockling. Hinges just starting to crack and occasional scattered foxing; otherwise a very good copy. 1889 signature on first free endpaper. Illustrated by folding map frontispiece in outline colour and by 16 black and white plates. An early illustrated edition of Stevenson's well known novel first published in i886, also by Cassell.