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| Early editions of Robert Louis Stevenson > Fiction > Book editions > Kidnapped > (11) [Page v] - Dedication |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74554874 |
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| Description | Dedication to Charles Baxter (a friend of Stevenson's) in which Stevenson mentions" how little I am touched by the desire of accuracy" and says: "This is no furniture for the scholar's library, but a book for the winter evening school-room when tasks are over and the hour for bed draws near" |
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Argyll and Bute >
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Caption titles Dedications (documents) Preliminaries |
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Balfour, David (Fictitious character) [Subject of text] Stewart, Alan Breck (Fictitious character) [Subject of text] Baxter, Charles, Writer to the Signet [Dedicatee] |
| 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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Written and printed matter > Books |
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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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Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 [Author] |
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