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Hard cover, 16mo, (4 x 6 3/4 inches), in red cloth blocked with titles in gold to top board and spine, small engraved Edinburgh bookseller's label to rear free endpaper, on laid paper, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, pencil inscription note, dated 1907, to ffep., 99pp. CONDITION: Near Fine, very light shelf wear to boards with one mark to the back board. Internally, offset from plates occasionally. Otherwise, very clean and bright. Glasgow-born Artist and book designer William Brown Macdougall (1868 - 1936) was responsible for the type design, the black and white photogravures from his paintings, and incidental carved print decoration for this volume. The Art Nouveau style for which he was so famous for, in larger works such as the magnificently bold and graphic bordered illustrations for books like "Isabella and the Pot of Basil," are perhaps hinted to here in the carved incidental decoration. He was married to Author Margaret Armour (1860-1943), who was also a poet, a translator of Germanic literature and a novelist. It was published a s a memorial after the death of Stevenson the prior year, 1894, on his estate in Samoa, and details his connection to the village of Colinton, part of Edinburgh, Scotland.
Ref: BIOG 9061
$65.00