Virginibus Puerisque & Other Papers

Stevenson, Robert Louis and Norman Wilkinson (illust.)

Verlag: Published for The Florence Press by Chatto & Windus, London, 1910

Beschreibung

VELLUM COPY. Limited edition (number 5 of 10 copies on vellum for sale, of a total edition of 262). London: Published for The Florence Press by Chatto & Windus, 1910. Quarto (9 3/4" x 7 3/8", 248mm x 188mm). 12 chromolothographed plates (on paper) by Norman Wilkinson, each with a captioned tissue guard. Bound in publisher's laced vellum with green cloth ties and yapp edges. Title gilt to the front cover and to the spine. Fine. With toning to one plate ("An Apology for Idlers"). Ex libris of Maude Bentley on the front paste-down. (Purchased from the Sotheby's sale of Jacques Levy, 20 April 2012, lot 319.) 'Virginibus Puerisque' (published 1881) was "the first collection of Stevenson's essays. Containing what would have been regarded as personal essays in the tradition of Lamb and Hazlitt, the volume brought together essays previously published in the prestigious 'Cornhill Magazine' ("Walking Tours" and "Virginibus Puerisque" [1876]; "On Falling in Love" and "Apology for Idlers" [1877]; "Crabbed Age and Youth", "Aes Triplex", "English Admirals" and "Child's Play" [1878]; "Truth of Intercourse" [1879]) as well as essays printed in Macmillan's ("Ordered South" [1874]) and 'London' ("A Plea for Gas Lamps", "Pan's Pipes" and "El Dorado" [1878]), and the previously unpublished "Some Portraits by Raeburn" and the second part of "Virginibus Puerisque". The essays promote a spirit of playfulness in defiance of both the hardships of human life and the restrictions imposed by bourgeois Philistinism. The volume did not sell well but had a good critical reception, confirming the author of 'Inland Voyage' (1878) and 'Travels with a Donkey' (1879) as one of the rising stars on the literary scene, notable for his youthful high spirits and elegant, if sometimes too showy, literary style.". Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 6JLR0048

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Virginibus Puerisque & Other Papers

Verlag: Published for The Florence Press by Chatto & Windus, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1910

Einband: Softcover

Zustand: Fine

Auflage: Limited.