Nine watercolours by Sophie MacCarthy
Unlike the standard edition which was bound in quarter white parchment with red paper boards patterned in gold
Counselor Ayres' Memorial by Machado de Assis
unclipped dust wrapper with heavily foxed and a little darkened panels
with textured white paper sides printed with a green
Treasure Island Agatha Christie Nine watercolours by Sophie MacCarthyTreasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson. London, Paris & Melbourne: Cassell and Company, 1894. Reprint, fifty second thousand. Illustrated edition. Hardcover. Octavo (185 x 125 x 30 mm.). Pp. viii, 292 pp, plus 20 pages of publisher's advertisements at rear. Publisher's original decorative blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, patterned endpapers, illustrated with numerous engraved plates. Acceptable copy only, with front free endpaper and plate opposite