Stevenson, Robert Louis; Sidney Colvin (ed.) — A Stevenson Medley

London: Chatto & Windus, 1899. 8vo. Dark Blue Quarter Morocco with Gilt Title on Spine and Page Tops, 51 pp. frontispiece (portrait) plates, map, facsimiles (some folded) diagrams. A facsimile of Stevenson's signature on guard sheet accompanying frontispiece. Printer's mark of the Davos press on label mounted on Title Page. One of 300 Copies. Copy signed in manuscript: "W.B.B." Very Good, some wear to spine, some toning to pages. "The .. medley .. is the same, with a few modifications, as was added by way of appendix to the limited Edinburgh edition of Mr. Stevenson's works." The facsimiles are reproductions of two manuscript poems and of twelve productions (booklets and broadsides) from the Davos press, written and engraved by Stevenson and printed, with one exception, by his stepson, Lloyd Osbourne, then a boy of twelve. cf. Prefatory note [printed] by S.C. [i.e. Sidney Colvin]. Four woodcuts without text. Provenance: From the collection of the late Lloyd Dinkelspiel Sr (1889-1959) and his wife, Florence Hellman Dinkelspiel (1904-1954) , granddaughter of Isaias Wolf Hellman (1842 -1920), the founder of Wells Fargo Bank. .