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| Early editions of Robert Louis Stevenson > Fiction > Book editions > Kidnapped > (9) Title page |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74554870 |
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| Description | Title page. Reads: Kidnapped being memoirs of the adventures of David Balfour in the year 1751: How he was kidnapped and cast away; his sufferings in a desert isle; his journey in the wild Highlands; his acquaintance with Alan Breck Stewart and other notorious Highland Jacobites; with all that he suffered at the hands of his uncle, Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws, falsely so-called. Written by himself, and now set forth by Robert Louis Stevenson. |
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1751 [Date/event in text] |
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Balfour, David (Fictitious character) [Subject of text] Cassell & Company [Subject of text] Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 [Subject of text] Stewart, Alan Breck (Fictitious character) [Subject of text] |
| Description | Being memoirs of the adventures of David Balfour in the year 1751. The first published English edition of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic adventure story. Published in London in 1886 by Cassel and Company Limited. |
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| Shelfmark | H.S.843 |
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1886 [Date published] Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746 [Date/event in text] |
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London
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Children's literature Fiction First editions Scottish Adventure stories |
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Cassell & Company [Publisher] Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 [Author] |
| Description | Full text versions of early editions of works by Robert Louis Stevenson. Includes 'Kidnapped', 'The Master of Ballantrae' and other well-known novels, as well as 'Prince Otto', 'Dynamiter' and 'St Ives'. Also early British and American book editions, serialisations of novels in newspapers and literary magazines, and essays by Stevenson. |
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