STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. [Cover title:] The Pentland Rising. A Page of History. 1666. Edinburgh: Andrew Elliot 1866. 12mo, original printed lime-green wrappers, rear cover a little dust-soiled, blue half morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION of Stevenson's very scarce first book, which his father had privately printed in a small edition when the author was 16. Beinecke 1; William A. Jackson, An Exhibition of Books Published When They Were 21 or Younger by One Hundred Authors Who Later Became Famous (Cambridge: The Houghton Library 1961), 90. A very good copy.

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STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. [Cover title:] The Pentland Rising. A Page of History. 1666. Edinburgh: Andrew Elliot 1866. 12mo, original printed lime-green wrappers, rear cover a little dust-soiled, blue half morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION of Stevenson's very scarce first book, which his father had privately printed in a small edition when the author was 16. Beinecke 1; William A. Jackson, An Exhibition of Books Published When They Were 21 or Younger by One Hundred Authors Who Later Became Famous (Cambridge: The Houghton Library 1961), 90. A very good copy.

Provenance: Pencilled inscription at inside front cover (by George Barr McCutcheon?): "formerly belonging to Mrs. Stevenson"--George Barr McCutcheon, bookplate (sale, AAA, 22 April 1926, lot 516).