STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. Ballads. London: Chatto & Windus 1890. 8vo, original dark blue cloth, t.e.g., unopened, covers slightly marked, blue half morocco slipcase. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author on the half-title: "B.R. Wise from R.L.S."; pasted to the inside front cover is an Autograph Letter Signed (initials) from Stevenson to Wise referring to this copy, n.p., n.d. [Sydney, 1893], 1 page, 8vo : "I sent you my address by the hands of your brother three weeks ago and have myself beaten repeatedly on the unresponsive panels of your office. Then I have been ill...can see no one, and leave to board the Lubeck in a few hours. It must stand over till next time, but if ever I trust your brother again! I send a book by the messenger. It [isn't grand?] but the offering is well meant." Beinecke 532. This English edition followed the American by five days; a very good copy. The recipient, Bernhard Ringrose Wise, was an Australian author of several books on law and economics. Graham Balfour, in his Life of Stevenson , mentions that in the early part of 1893 Stevenson spent several weeks at Sydney where there were "a number of friends in whose company he delighted, especially Fairfax Ross and the Hon. R.B. Wise." Provenance : E.H. Mills, bookplate -- Doris L. Benz, bookplate (sale, Christie's New York, 16 November 1984, lot 374).
STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. Ballads. London: Chatto & Windus 1890. 8vo, original dark blue cloth, t.e.g., unopened, covers slightly marked, blue half morocco slipcase. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author on the half-title: "B.R. Wise from R.L.S."; pasted to the inside front cover is an Autograph Letter Signed (initials) from Stevenson to Wise referring to this copy, n.p., n.d. [Sydney, 1893], 1 page, 8vo : "I sent you my address by the hands of your brother three weeks ago and have myself beaten repeatedly on the unresponsive panels of your office. Then I have been ill...can see no one, and leave to board the Lubeck in a few hours. It must stand over till next time, but if ever I trust your brother again! I send a book by the messenger. It [isn't grand?] but the offering is well meant." Beinecke 532. This English edition followed the American by five days; a very good copy. The recipient, Bernhard Ringrose Wise, was an Australian author of several books on law and economics. Graham Balfour, in his Life of Stevenson , mentions that in the early part of 1893 Stevenson spent several weeks at Sydney where there were "a number of friends in whose company he delighted, especially Fairfax Ross and the Hon. R.B. Wise." Provenance : E.H. Mills, bookplate -- Doris L. Benz, bookplate (sale, Christie's New York, 16 November 1984, lot 374).
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