R. Louis Stevenson — Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin

London, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1912. Cloth. Stevenson's memoir of his friend Fleeming Jenkin, F.R.S. LL.D. Professor of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh. Best known as the inventor of the cable car, Jenkin (1833-1885) was something of a polymath, with talents as an economist, artist, linguist and dramatist. Originally published in 1888 alongside other works, this is its first issue in separate form. With a tissue-guarded frontispiece of Jenkin. In a cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine. Externally smart, though with slight cocking to spine, some marks to boards and very minor shelfwear. Internally firmly bound. Foxed to first and last few pages and to fore-edge. Pages otherwise bright and clean with just the occasional spot. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed .