STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. Autograph manuscript of the poem "A Visit from the Sea" ("Far from the loud sea beaches Where he goes fishing and crying,..."), n.d. [c.1884, published in 1887]. 7 pages of irregular size (originally written on one piece of ruled foolscap, which had been divided into six sections, each section inlaid to a larger sheet), 20 lines in 5 stanzas, written only on rectos, bound with etched portrait by S. Hollyer and printed text of the poem in aqua morocco gilt, front cover gilt-panelled and with white morocco onlaid sea gull emblem, inner gilt borders, with a gilt seashell in each corner, watered white silk doublures and end-leaves, g.e., extremities worn, front cover detached. A working manuscript showing deletions and revisions in two lines. Published as the sixth poem in Underwoods, London, 1887 (see Beinecke 445). Bookplate of Harry Glemby.

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STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. Autograph manuscript of the poem "A Visit from the Sea" ("Far from the loud sea beaches Where he goes fishing and crying,..."), n.d. [c.1884, published in 1887]. 7 pages of irregular size (originally written on one piece of ruled foolscap, which had been divided into six sections, each section inlaid to a larger sheet), 20 lines in 5 stanzas, written only on rectos, bound with etched portrait by S. Hollyer and printed text of the poem in aqua morocco gilt, front cover gilt-panelled and with white morocco onlaid sea gull emblem, inner gilt borders, with a gilt seashell in each corner, watered white silk doublures and end-leaves, g.e., extremities worn, front cover detached. A working manuscript showing deletions and revisions in two lines. Published as the sixth poem in Underwoods, London, 1887 (see Beinecke 445). Bookplate of Harry Glemby.