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South Seas jnl, Beach of Falesá, final version of St Ives. The Pierpont
Morgan Lib has juvenilia, final version of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and
draft of Weir of Hermiston. Harvard has letters, Memoirs of himself,
Markheim, and final version of Catriona. Princeton has juvenile story
The plague cellar, earliest ms of St Ives, correspondence with Scribner’s,
and books including variant bindings. The Mitchell Lib, Sydney, has ms of
1890 printing of In the South Seas. The Robert Louis Stevenson Silverado
Museum, St Helena CA, has mss of poems and essays, letters, portraits,
photos, and many personal articles, also letters and paintings by Stevenson’s
wife and others. Baker Cottage, Saranac Lake NY, has books and ms material
originally from Stevenson Soc of America, personal articles, and two of RLS’s
mother’s scrapbooks of reviews. Stevenson House, Monterey State Historic
Park CA, has portraits of Stevenson by his wife, Joe Strong and A. J. Daplyn,
furniture, personal articles, books, and four of Stevenson’s mother’s scrapbooks.
Bibliographies
Prideaux, W. F. A bibliography of the works of Robert Louis
Stevenson. 1903, 1917 (rev F. Livingston).
Rosenbach, A. S. W. A catalogue of the books and manuscripts of
Robert Louis Stevenson in the library of the late Harry Elkins
Widener. Philadelphia 1913. Collection now at Harvard.
Slater, J. H. Robert Louis Stevenson: a bibliography of his complete
works. 1914. Earlier version 1894.
Autograph letters, original manuscripts, books, portraits, and
curios . . . of the late Robert Louis Stevenson. Anderson Auction
Company 3-part sale, New York 1914–16. More than 1,300 lots,
consigned by RLS’s stepdaughter Isobel Field.
Grolier Club. First editions of the works of Robert Louis Stevenson,
1850–94, with other Stevensoniana exhibited Nov 5–28 1914.
New York 1915 (illus edn).
Ehrsam, T. G. and R. H. Deily. In their Bibliographies of twelve
Victorian authors, New York 1936.
Edinburgh Public Libraries. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850–1894.
Catalogue. Edinburgh 1950; supplementary catalogue,
Edinburgh 1978.
McKay, G. L. A Stevenson library: catalogue of a collection of writings
by and about Robert Louis Stevenson formed by Edwin J.
Beinecke. 6 vols New Haven CT 1951–64.
Edinburgh Libraries and Museums. Lady Stair’s House Museum.
Edinburgh 1966.
Wainwright, A. D. Robert Louis Stevenson: a catalogue. Princeton
1971.
Swearingen, R. G. The prose writings of RLS: a guide. Hamden CT
1980.
Collections
Many important works and fragments appeared or became widely known for
the first time in the collected edns, in the Edinburgh and Vailima edns especially.
As with edns of separate works, the hundreds of collections and reprints
of stories, essays and fiction that appeared in the century since RLS’s death in
1894 are omitted.
Edinburgh edition. Ed S. Colvin 28 vols 1894–8.
Thistle edition. 27 vols New York 1895–9, 1911–12.
Biographical edition. 31 vols New York 1905–12. Prefaces by Fanny
Stevenson.
Household edition. Ed C. C. Bigelow and T. Scott 10 vols New York
1906. Also pbd as Bournemouth, Casco, Marquesan, Monterey,
Ticonderoga, and no doubt other edns, each such ‘Edition De
Luxe’ limited to 1,000 sets.
Pentland edition. Ed E. Gosse 20 vols 1906–7.
Swanston edition. Ed A. Lang 25 vols 1911–12.
Vailima edition. Ed L. Osbourne 26 vols 1922–3.
Tusitala edition. 35 vols 1924.
Skerryvore edition. 30 vols 1924–6.
South Seas edition. 32 vols New York 1925.
Joseph Henry Shorthouse | Robert Louis Stevenson
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First British and American edns are listed in order of publication date even
when RLS himself worked only on a later edn. Examples include Dr Jekyll
and Mr Hyde (RLS saw and worked on the Longman edn), The Master of
Ballantrae (he worked on the version in Scribner’s Mag), and others. Englang
edns and reprints before 1900 are listed only if possibly significant textually
or authorised. Piracies, other reprints and the hundreds of edns, reprints
and adaptations since 1900 are omitted. See also the separate sections on
Translations and Textual and bibliographical studies.
The Pentland rising: a page of history. Edinburgh 1866 (priv ptd
pam).
An appeal to the clergy of the Church of Scotland. Edinburgh 1875.
The charity bazaar: an allegorical dialogue. Edinburgh [1875] (priv
ptd folder).
An inland voyage. 1878, 1881 (‘Second Edition’, actually 2nd printing),
1887 (also ‘Second Edition’ but first by Chatto and Windus),
Boston 1883, 1885, Leipzig 1886.
Edinburgh: picturesque notes, with etchings.‘1879’ [1878], ‘1889’
[1888] (new edn, 8vo), New York 1889, London 1896. First pbd partially
in Portfolio June–Dec 1878.
Travels with a donkey in the Cévennes. 1879 (‘Second Edition’ 1879
actually 2nd printing), Boston 1879 (additional printings as late
as 1892), 1886 (first Chatto and Windus).
Deacon Brodie, or the double life: a melodrama founded on facts in
four acts and ten tableaux. Edinburgh 1880 (priv ptd), 1888 (rev,
priv ptd), 1892 (in Three plays), 1896 and 1907 (in The plays),
‘1897’ [1896]. With W. E. Henley.
Virginibus puerisque and other papers. 1881, 1887 (2nd edn), New
York 1887 (called 2nd edn but actually 1st). 15 essays, chiefly rptd
from Cornhill Mag.
Familiar studies of men and books. 1882, 1886 (2nd edn), New York
1887 (Dodd, Mead edn), 1887 (Scribner’s edn, from Dodd, Mead
plates). 9 essays, chiefly rptd from Cornhill Mag.
New Arabian nights. 2 vols 1882 (‘Second Edition’, actually 2nd
printing), New York 1882, 1 vol London 1882 (‘A New Edition’,
Cheap Edition), Hamburg 1883, 1 vol London 1884 (Cheap
Edition, illus covers), 1894 (illus). Vol 1 The suicide club, The
rajah’s diamond; vol 2 The pavilion on the links, The Sire de
Malétroit’s door, Providence and the guitar. The stories in vol 1
originally appeared in London 8 June–26 Oct 1878, as Latter-day
Arabian nights; those in vol 2 were rptd from Cornhill Mag,
Temple Bar and London.
The Silverado squatters. 1883, Boston 1884, London 1886 (‘A New
Edition’). First pbd in Century Mag Nov–Dec 1883.
Treasure Island. 1883, 1884 (2nd edn), Boston 1884 (illus; additional
printings as late as 1895), Leipzig 1884, London 1885 (‘Illustrated
Edition’). First pbd as Treasure Island; or, the mutiny of the
Hispaniola, by Captain George North in Young Folks 1 Oct
1881–22 Jan 1882.
Admiral Guinea: a melodrama in four acts. Edinburgh 1884 (priv
ptd), 1892 (in Three plays), 1896 and 1907 (in The plays), 1897.
With W. E. Henley.
Beau Austin: a play in four acts. Edinburgh 1884 (priv ptd), 1892 (in
Three plays), 1896 and 1907 (in The plays), 1897. With W. E.
Henley.
A child’s garden of verses. 1885 (‘Second Edition’ 1885 actually 2nd
printing), New York 1885, 1895 (illus), London 1896 (illus). Trial
issue, 48 poems, ptd 1883 as Penny whistles (copies at Yale,
Harvard, Princeton), much rev and augmented; 6 of the poems
pbd 1884, Mag of Art; 9 poems in trial issue omitted by RLS from
1st edn; these were priv ptd from the trial issue by L. S. Livingston
as Verses by RLS, 1912, also in Widener Collection catalogue, 1913;
first pbd San Francisco 1978.
More new Arabian nights: the dynamiter. 1885, New York 1885.
Except for Zero’s tale of the explosive bomb, largely the work of
Fanny Stevenson.
1689 | 1690