Lot Details
Lot 173
STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS Notice of a New Form of Intermittent Light for Lighthouses.
Edinburgh: Printed by Neill and Company [Offprint from the Transactions of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts], 1871. First edition, likely one of about 50 copies thus, inscribed "With the author's compliments" at the head of the title. Self-wrappers, housed in a cloth chemise and slipcase. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (21.5 x 14 cm); 7, [1] pp.; diagrams. Some minor dust-soiling, but near fine.
The essay received the Society's silver medal and a cash prize of three sovereigns, when it appeared in the Transactions... Prideaux states that the copies were printed separately from the types of the journal publication (probably at Stevenson's request, as was done with his paper on the thermal influence of forests) with an added title and altered pagination, as here. Prideaux II, 3.
C The Library of Duncan Cranford
Additional Notes & Condition Report
No condition report? Click here to request one.