Treasure Island by STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS - 1883

London, Paris & New York: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1883. Original brown silk-grained cloth, bordered in blind, black coated endpapers, gilt spine lettering (issued in various colours without priority). Pp. viii, 292, followed by 4 pages of publisher's advertisements numbered 5G-783. Original frontispiece map in 4 colours with tissue guard. Bookplate of noted British bibliophile, Eric S. Quayle, to front pastedown, covers lightly soiled, very slight lean, upper corner lightly bruised, paper over rear joint split which has been somewhat crudely repaired, housed in a custom, highly durable, clamshell box of brown/maroon pebbled cloth with inset mounted copy of map and lettered in gilt, double gilt-stamped leather spine labels. A very good copy, with first edition points as follows: P. 2 & 7: "deadman's chest" not capitalized; P. 40, last two lines: the "v" in vain, and also the "m" in the word miscreant above is broken; P. 63: "A" missing in line 6; P. 83: the "8" in pagination is supposed to be missing, here it is present; P. 127: "7" is missing from page number; P. 178: full-stop missing following "opportunity" in 4th paragraph; P. 197, Line 3: "worse" for worst. Prideaux 11.. First Edition, First Issue. Hard Cover. Very Good.