Robert Louis Stevenson — Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers

London, Chatto & Windus, 1919. Leather. A smartly bound collection of the essays of Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson. A collection of the essays of Robert Louis Stevenson, a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer best known for the novel Treasure Island (1883). These essays promote a spirit of playfulness in defiance of both the hardships of human life and the restrictions imposed by bourgeois Philistinism. Despite not selling well, they received a good critical reception. This collection contains: Virginibus Puerisque (I, II, III On Falling in Love, and IV Truth of Intercourse), Crabbed Age and Youth, An Apology for Idler, Ordered South, El Dorado, and many others. Bound in half calf with cloth covered boards. Externally, sound with light rubbing and fading to the extremities. The odd small mark to the boards. Minor cracking to the joints. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd small spot. A school prize bookplate to the front pastedown. Good . Ill.: None. Good .