- Octavo, red cloth with printed paper labels on the spines. The top edges are gilt & the endpapers are patterned in gilt on a maroon ground. The binding is rubbed & bumped with some spotting & staining. The spines are slightly faded & the labels are soiled & chipped. xliv & 375 pages with an errata slip bound in; and xiii & 384 pages. A spare label is laid in at the rear of each volume. There is a black-and-white portrait frontispiece with a tissue guard in each volume. A folding facsimile is tipped into Vol. 2. There is offsetting from the frontispieces to the titles & the tissue guards are darkened with a short tear to the Vol. 1 tissue guard. There is a bookseller's notation on the verso of the Vol. 1 rear endpaper & a small label has been partially removed from it. All in all, the contents are very good.

First edition.

LITERATURE; AUTHOR; NOVELIST; BRITISH; ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON; CORRESPONDENCE; LETTERS; SIDNEY COLVIN; PORTRAITS; FACSIMILE; NINETEENTH CEN TURY; 19TH CENTURY; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.