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

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
the exception of one, by his young stepson, now well known as Mr. Lloyd
Osbourne. With the last three cuts, lettered Robin and Ben ; or, the
Pirate and the Apothecary, no text was printed. But in connection
with them a copy of verses was written, which in form only, were half
childish like the rest, but in substance a satire, not without Swiftean
touches, on commercial morality. Starting with this, the author planned
a whole volume of Moral Tales in the same vein ; but besides
Robin and Ben only one of these was written, namely, The Builder's
Doom. Both are here printed for the first time, bringing to a close
this Appendix and the Edition.
It remains for Editor and Executor to express their sense of obligation
to their friends, the famous printers, for the care and enthusiasm which
from the outset they have thrown into the task of making the Edinburgh
edition what it seems acknowledged on all hands to be, a model of every
excellence in their art and craft.
s.c.
May 25, 1898.
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