Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson - 1927

London : Ernest Benn Limited, 1927 A very good copy of the first edition of this work illustrated by Edmund Dulac. In the original brown textured cloth binding with decorative gilt design to board edges and green leather spine label with gilt titles. With 12 colour plates by Dulac and numerous black and white illustrations, vignettes, head and tail pieces and decorative initial capitals. The cloth binding is in very good condition with only very slight bumping to corners (most noticeable on the back board top corner) and pulling to spine. Internally there is a neat ink signature to the fep and a small Stevenson copyright stamp overwritten with 1/6 to the reverse of the fep. There is slight darkening to the rear free endpaper and isolated light spotting generally to page edges visible when the book is closed, but this is a very clean copy. A few pages have a very slight ripple towards the top outer corner mirroring the very slight bumping to the back board corner.