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Auction archive: Lot number 181

STEVENSON, Robert Louis (1850-1904) Extensive notebook of au...

Estimate
US$40,000 - US$60,000
Price realised:
US$100,000
Auction archive: Lot number 181

STEVENSON, Robert Louis (1850-1904) Extensive notebook of au...

Estimate
US$40,000 - US$60,000
Price realised:
US$100,000
Beschreibung:

STEVENSON, Robert Louis (1850-1904). Extensive notebook of autograph poetry and prose, most entries heavily revised and amended, several pages with brief Latin passages in a different hand than Stevenson's; undated (but some of the same verses in other sources are dated 1871-1879).
STEVENSON, Robert Louis (1850-1904). Extensive notebook of autograph poetry and prose, most entries heavily revised and amended, several pages with brief Latin passages in a different hand than Stevenson's; undated (but some of the same verses in other sources are dated 1871-1879). An extensive notebook, containing a rich collection of Stevenson's early compositions, many evidently unpublished, at least one drafted here was later published in Underwoods , others in Poems Hitherto Unpublished , ed. George S. Hellman, Boston, 1916. Pages 17 to 22 contain verses beginning "An' Johnies deid..."; its four-line stanzas have been numbered 1 though 13, by Stevenson, indicating their sequence. Stanza 11 of this work mentions Shakespeare and Keats; one line in the verses on p.24 reads "Browning couldn't sing at all." The pages of prose would appear to be part of an unfinished critical essay; page 48 reads: "Dr John Brown calls this, is his preface to it, a delightful book, and Dr. John Brown is a good judge. A delightful book it certainly is, and delightful in no ordinary way..." 4to. 220 x 175mm (8 ¾ x 6 3/8 in.). 57 pages (50 pages of verse, 7 pages prose, evidently a book review) written in pencil, written on rectos only of heavy, unwatermarked writing paper. Red morocco gilt, upper cover gilt-lettered "R.L. Stevenson. / Original Autograph Poems" gilt top edge, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Protective clamshell box. At least a few verses also appear in oems hitherto Unpublished: "When aince Aprile has fairly come / And winter turned his icy brown, / Love, in our auld recruitin' drum / ..." (p.8) An lord! But lassies eyes are bright / And lassies dresses are unco' tight, / A lad's heart trembles at the sight..." (p.9). Multiple stanzas. Cf Beinecke 7138 and 7139, first published in Underwoods, 1887. Another verse: "Love, what is love? A great and aching heart; / Warm hands; and silence; and a long despair. Life, what is life? / A branch, gray and bare, / To see her coming and see love depart." Cf Beinecke 6547. First published in Poems: Hitherto Unpublished., v.1, p. 254; 6548, dated 6548, dated March 1876.

Auction archive: Lot number 181
Auction:
Datum:
14 Dec 2016
Auction house:
Christie's
New York
Beschreibung:

STEVENSON, Robert Louis (1850-1904). Extensive notebook of autograph poetry and prose, most entries heavily revised and amended, several pages with brief Latin passages in a different hand than Stevenson's; undated (but some of the same verses in other sources are dated 1871-1879).
STEVENSON, Robert Louis (1850-1904). Extensive notebook of autograph poetry and prose, most entries heavily revised and amended, several pages with brief Latin passages in a different hand than Stevenson's; undated (but some of the same verses in other sources are dated 1871-1879). An extensive notebook, containing a rich collection of Stevenson's early compositions, many evidently unpublished, at least one drafted here was later published in Underwoods , others in Poems Hitherto Unpublished , ed. George S. Hellman, Boston, 1916. Pages 17 to 22 contain verses beginning "An' Johnies deid..."; its four-line stanzas have been numbered 1 though 13, by Stevenson, indicating their sequence. Stanza 11 of this work mentions Shakespeare and Keats; one line in the verses on p.24 reads "Browning couldn't sing at all." The pages of prose would appear to be part of an unfinished critical essay; page 48 reads: "Dr John Brown calls this, is his preface to it, a delightful book, and Dr. John Brown is a good judge. A delightful book it certainly is, and delightful in no ordinary way..." 4to. 220 x 175mm (8 ¾ x 6 3/8 in.). 57 pages (50 pages of verse, 7 pages prose, evidently a book review) written in pencil, written on rectos only of heavy, unwatermarked writing paper. Red morocco gilt, upper cover gilt-lettered "R.L. Stevenson. / Original Autograph Poems" gilt top edge, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Protective clamshell box. At least a few verses also appear in oems hitherto Unpublished: "When aince Aprile has fairly come / And winter turned his icy brown, / Love, in our auld recruitin' drum / ..." (p.8) An lord! But lassies eyes are bright / And lassies dresses are unco' tight, / A lad's heart trembles at the sight..." (p.9). Multiple stanzas. Cf Beinecke 7138 and 7139, first published in Underwoods, 1887. Another verse: "Love, what is love? A great and aching heart; / Warm hands; and silence; and a long despair. Life, what is life? / A branch, gray and bare, / To see her coming and see love depart." Cf Beinecke 6547. First published in Poems: Hitherto Unpublished., v.1, p. 254; 6548, dated 6548, dated March 1876.

Auction archive: Lot number 181
Auction:
Datum:
14 Dec 2016
Auction house:
Christie's
New York
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