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Stevenson, Margaret Isabella; Osbourne, Katharine D. (Note to the Reader) : Stevenson's Baby Book: Being the Record of the Sayings and Doings of Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson, Son of Thomas Stevenson, C. E. and Margaret Isabella Balfour or Stevenson

John Howell, San Francisco, CA, 1922

Signed and inscribed by the publisher. Printed by John Henry Nash: "Printed for John Howell by John Henry Nash." Limited Edition, no. 456 of 500 copies. Original publisher's beige paper-covered boards backed with light blue cloth. Black-and-white miniature pattern of tiny cherubs on the paper portion of the boards. 6 1/4" x 9 1/4." Fifty-eight pages, complete. Black-and-white illustrations, complete. Included among the illustrations is a tipped-in frontispiece portrait, which is likely of Robert Louis Stevenson when he was a child. The publisher's signed inscription is handwritten in purple ink on front free endpaper: "To Marjorie Anne [?], with cordial regards from a friend of her father the [...?] and his son, John Howell, Warren [?] R. Howell, Nov. 25, 1940." Pages are very clean and intact except for tape residue on front pastedown and some offsetting at the fore-edge of the pages in the very front and very back. The rest of the pages have no offsetting. Covers are clean and intact overall except for slight darkening on the spine, browning to the paper portions of the boards, a few tiny splits at head and tail of spine, and some corner and edge wear. A Very Good copy. An endearing and interesting look at the early life of the prominent Scottish author, Robert Louis Stevenson. Stevenson's baby records and documentation of his life from infancy into his early childhood are reprinted in facsimile and also transcribed in the latter half of the book. These records were kept by Stevenson's mother, Margaret Isabella (Balfour) Stevenson. Excerpt from Katharine D. Osbourne's Note to the Reader: "This Baby Record was meant by the young mother who wrote it, as all such Records are, to keep, for memory's sake, an account of the first years of her adored child. A few of the notes were added by her in later years. What gives this Records extraordinary value, what sets it apart from countless others, undertaken in the same sweet cause, is that it proved to be the first chapter of the biography of one of the best-loved men who ever lived ...." Back colophon: "Five hundred copies printed of which this is No. 456.". Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover

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