• Publication: A Stevenson MedleyPublication Record # 77176
• Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
• Date: 1899-00-00
• Publisher: Chatto & Windus
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: COLLECTION
• Notes:

  • From OCLC record: "This edition consists of three hundred copies." L.C. copy signed in manuscript: W.B.B. "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, signed: S.C. [i.e. Sidney Colvin].
  • Here are the contents as listed in William Francis Prideaux's Bibliography of the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (1903); he states that it is exactly identical to the contents of the Appendix (Volume XXVIII) of the Edinburgh Edition, June 1898, except for containing several additional woodcuts and facsimile pages. Most likely, none of this is genre-relevant except the preface to The Master of Ballantrae.
    • The Charity Bazaar (Originally printed at Edinburgh in 1869)
    • The Light Keeper [I. The brilliant kernel of the night; II. As the steady lenses circle] (Printed from a manuscript for the first time in the Edinburgh Edition)
    • On a New Form of Intermittent Light for Lighthouses (Appeared as a pamphlet in 1871, "From the Transactions of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts, vol. viii, 1870-71")
    • On the Thermal Influence of Forests (Appeared as a pamphlet in 1878, printed by Neill and Company, Edinburgh)
    • Reflexions and Remarks on Human Life (Printed for the first time in the Edinburgh Edition from the notebook of the author)
    • The Ideal House (Printed for the first time in the Edinburgh Edition from the notebook of the author)
    • Preface to The Master of Ballantrae (Printed for the first time in the Edinburgh Edition from the notebook of the author)
    • Moral Emblems, etc.: Facsimiles—
      • Advertisement of Black Canyon
      • Black Canyon, or Wild Adventures in the Far West
      • Not I, and Other Poems
      • Moral Emblems
      • Advertisement of Moral Emblems: Édition de Luxe
      • Advertisement of Moral Emblems: Second Collection
      • Moral Emblems: Second Collection
      • A Martial Elegy for some Lead Soldiers
      • Advertisement of The Graver and the Pen
      • The Graver and the Pen
    • Moral Tales—
      • Robin and Ben; or, The Pirate and the Apothecary
      • The Builder's Doom

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• Preface to The Master of Ballantrae • (1898) • essay by Robert Louis Stevenson