Robert Louis Stevenson — Moral Emblems and Other Poems

London, Chatto & Windus, 1921. Cloth. A lovely illustrated copy of this collection of poems by Robert Louis Stevenson. Illustrated with woodcuts throughout. A collection of poems, illustrated by the author, which originally consisted of two small booklets of poetry and engravings published in limited copies in Davos in 1882. This printing contains poems such as: Not I, A Martial Elegy for Some lead Soldiers, Moral Tales, and more. Written and illustrated by Robert Louis Stevenson, a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer best known for Treasure Island (1883), Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), and the poetry collection A Child's Garden of Verses (1885). With the original edition of this work having been written, illustrated, and engraved by Stevenson, in collaboration with his stepson Samuel Lloyd Osbourne, an American writer. Previously held in the library of Everard Reginald Hay-Neave, an English colonial administrator who held the office of Acting Judge of the High Court in Allahabad, India, between 1924 and 1926. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and fading to the extremities. The odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with light age toning to the endpapers. Previous owners' bookplates to the front pastedown. Very Good . Ill.: Robert Louis Stevenson. Very Good .