Robert Louis Stevenson — Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1912. Cloth. Robert Louis Stevenson's memoir of his friend Fleeming Jenkin. Illustrated with portrait frontispiece. Originally published in 1888 alongside other works, this is its first issue in separate form. Fleeming Jenkin was an engineer known as the inventor of the cable car. Jenkin was an electrician and cable engineer, economist, linguist, critic, actor, dramatist and artist, as well as a lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. Written by Robert Louis Stevenson, a Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, a friend of Jenkin, and the well known author of works such as Treasure Island and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. In the original black cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light shelf wear to the extremities and bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with the odd small spot. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .