Collected works > Edinburgh edition, 1894-98 - Works of Robert Louis Stevenson > Volume 28, 1898 - Appendix

PREFACE AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
With the delivery of Vol. XX VII., containing the story of St. Ives,
the Edinburgh edition of Mr. Stevenson's works is completed according
to promise. His Executor and Editor have every reason to be gratified
with the success of their scheme, and it has occurred to them that a small
supplementary volume or Appendix, added gratuitously by way of bonus,
and in acknowledgment of the support and appreciation which tlie
edition has received, may not be unwelcome to subscribers. Such a
volume is accordingly herewith presented [but with no pledge, it should
be understood, that copies on other paper and in another binding may not
also be offered for sale to the general public.) It is a medley, made up
of items some serious and some trifling, which for one reason or another
were not included in the main edition. Among them are things which
various subscribers have already expressed a desire to possess. Such are
The Charity Bazaar ; the two papers on Lighthouse Illumination
and The Thermal Influence of Forests ; and the sets of cuts
and verses done and printed to amuse the writer and his young
stepson at Davos. The first-named of these, which opens the volume,
is a boyish skit privately printed on a charity occasion at Edinburgh,
I believe in 1868, and in its original form has for some time been
a rarity competed for by collectors. The two second were contributed
to the Transactions of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts for 1871 and
the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh for 1873 respectively.
They are not literature, and do not proceed from any natural bias of
the writer s mind. They do, however, represent the circumstances of his
origin and early training as a member of a distinguished family of civil
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