1901 Memories & Portraits, Men & Books, and Virginibus Puerisque

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Leather Binding, Signed Binding

Three volumes. Written by Robert Louis Stevenson, a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet, and travel writer best known for his works Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and A Child's Garden of Verses. This set includes: Memories and Portraits Tenth edition. A collection of essays with titles such as: The Foreigner at Home, Old Morality, An Old Scotch Gardener, Memories of an Islet, The Character of Dogs, and many others. Familiar Studies of Men and Books Sixteenth edition. A collection of literary criticism on: Victor Hugo's Romances, Some Aspects of Robert Burns, The Gospel According to Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau: His Character and Opinions, and much more. Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers Twenty-fourth edition. A collection of short essays with titles such as: An Apology for Idlers, Ordered South, El Dorado, The English Admirals, Child's Play, and many others. Bound by Maclehose, Glasgow.