[Rarebooks] FS: SIGNED Photograph of Robert Louis Stevenson

[Charles Agvent]

STEVENSON, Robert Louis. SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH. Sepia-colored albumen 
photographic print (5-3/8" x 7-5/8") of Scottish writer Robert Louis 
Stevenson (1850-1894) after Sir Percy Florence Shelley SIGNED "Robert 
Louis Stevenson" on the verso of the brown paper mount to Will H. 
Low/from phot. of Sir P. Shelley Bart." Low has dated the photograph 
1885 and monogrammed it "WHL" below Stevenson's inscription. Taken 
between the publication of TREASURE ISLAND and THE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL 
AND MR. HYDE, the photograph depicts Stevenson in profile draped with an 
amorphous cloak concealing everything but one corner of a stiff collar, 
his longish hair tucked behind his ears. Light creasing with moderate 
discoloration and fading to the image. Photo mount edges are weakened 
and repaired at bottom left and right corners. A Good example of a 
scarce SIGNED photo of Stevenson.

Will H. Low, 1853-1933, was an American painter and illustrator, friend 
and dedicatee of a published poem by Stevenson. Sir Percy Florence 
Shelley, 3rd Baronet of Castle Goring, a friend of Stevenson's, was the 
son of writers Sir Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) and Mary Shelley 
(1797-1851). This landed gentleman of impressive literary heritage was 
also an amateur photographer. Stevenson dedicated his 1889 work THE 
MASTER OF "BALLANTRAE to Shelley and his wife. (#018642)        $4,500.00

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