STEVENSON, Robert Louis.

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The Works. The Vailima edition, publishing for the first time a substantial offering of new material, including: more than 100 poems and letters, his notebook and his mother's diary, two volumes of juvenilia, and literary fragments from published works, such as Treasure Island, his unfinished masterpiece-in-progress Weir of Hermiston, and many others.Contemporary critics were keen to speculate on the discoveries that awaited them in the then-upcoming volumes. On its completion, the edition was roundly praised for the quality of its editing and printing. "In the chasteness of its design, the skill shown in the arrangement and presentation of the material, the excellence of the typography, and the interesting series of frontispieces which adorn its volumes, this edition is such as would surely have gladdened the heart of Stevenson himself" (The Scotsman). This set is number 93 of 1,030 sets for the United States, from a total edition of 2,090 sets.

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