Item #8196 Confessions of a Unionist: An Unpublished 'Talk on Things Current'. Robert Louis Stevenson.

Confessions of a Unionist: An Unpublished 'Talk on Things Current'

Cambridge MA: Privately Printed, 1921. 1st. Original wrappers. 1st edition thus. Octavo; 20 pages. Printed on hand-made paper. Laid in is a printed bibliographical entry to be inserted 'at page 203 of the revised edition of Colonel Prideaux's Bibliography of Stevenson...' Olive-grey Italian paper wrapper, the front lettered in black. Age toning to wrappers else a fine, unopened copy. Item #8196

Printed by Harvard librarian, G.P. Winship on English Kelmscott paper with the hammer and anvil watermark. 'This is the second impression, the Princeps consisting of the set of four galley proofs described as Livingston-Prideaux No. 100 [in the Harvard College Library]... this is the earliest issue which a collector can expect to acquire. No copies have been placed on public sale, this edition being intended for private distribution.' (Livingston-Prideaux) (Beinecke 476).

Price: $100.00

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