Kidnapped : being memoirs of the adventures of David Balfour in the year 1751: how he was kidnapped and cast away; his sufferings in a desert isle; his journey in the Wild Highlands; his acquaintance with Alan Breck Stewart and other notorious Highland Jacobites; with all that he suffered at the hands of his uncle, Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws, falsely so-called: / written by himself, and now set forth by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894.

Contributor:

Cassell & Company., Publisher, Printer.

Belle Sauvage Works., Printer.

G.H. Last (Firm)., Former owner.

Turner, Evan H., Donor.

Turner, Albert Morton., Former owner.

British Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kidnapping--Fiction.

Kidnapping.

Castaways--Fiction.

Castaways.

Inheritance and succession--Fiction.

Inheritance and succession.

Adventure stories.

Voyages and travels--Fiction.

Voyages and travels.

Scotland--History--18th century--Fiction.

Scotland.

Genre:

Publishers' advertisements -- 1886.

Juvenile literature -- 1886.

Physical Description:

viii, 311, [17] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : col. map ; 20 cm. (8vo)

Place of Publication:

[London] : Cassell & Company, Limited:, MDCCCLXXXVI. [1886]

Notes:

First edition, first issue. with "business" instead of "pleasure" on p. 40, line 11, "nine o'clock" instead of "twelve o'clock" on p. 64, line 1, and "Long Islands" instead of "Long Island" on p. 101, lines 9/10.

With half-title.

Publisher's advertisements on p. [2]-[17] at end.

"Printed by Cassell & Company, Limited, La Belle Sauvage, London, E.C."--p. 311.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Bound in original bright red cloth with the boards ruled in blind, black endpapers and gilt lettering on spine.

Athenaeum copy: Gift of: Evan H. Turner (2006), from the collection of Professor Albert Morton Turner (1890-1976).

Athenaeum copy with invoice and description from catalog of bookseller G.H. Last (Kent, England) laid in.

OCLC:

174570734