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Prayers written at Vailima / by Robert Louis Stevenson ; with an introduction by Mrs. Stevenson.

Accession number
PML 251514
Creator
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894.
Published
Los Angeles : Dawson's Bookshop, 1973.
Credit line
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman, 1994.
Notes
"500 copies printed by Saul & Lillian Marks at the Plantin Press, Los Angeles. Wood engraving by Mary Kuper"--Colophon.
"(First complete separate edition of twenty Prayers, 'masterpieces in the literature of devotion'. They were writte in Stevenson's home in Samoa from 1890-1894. Earlier editions include fourteen of the twenty prayers. This edition includes the introduction by Mrs. Stevenson to the 1904 edition and an explanatory note written for this edition by Miss Ellen Shaffer, Curator of the Silverado Museum in St. Helena, California. ... Binding designed by the printers and executed by Bela Blau"--J.P. Wightman card file.
Housed in Dawson's box II.
Description
xxxviij, 61 pages : illustrations ; 62 mm
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman, with her bookplate.
Binding
Orange boards backed in gray; printed in red.
Classification
Department