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Bournemouth, 1900. First Edition. Framed Plans. Very good +. THE RARE: ORIGINAL PLANS FOR IMPROVEMENTS TO MIDDLE ROAD WHICH LEADS TO SKERRYVORE, Robert Louis Stevenson's home in Bournemouth where John Singer Sargent painted Stevenson and his wife and where Stevenson had the famous dream which inspired his great work "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", which tale, among other great works, he wrote at Skerryvore, a property later owned by Heywood Sumner, Esq., a successor in ownership to the home, who was closely involved with the Arts and Crafts movement and the late-Victorian London art world. Sumner, who was qualified as a Barrister, also employed much of his time as an amateur archaeologist, geologist, naturalist, and folklorist.] Skerryvore, whose lawns ran down from the house to Alum Chine Road, is where Stevenson lived from 1885 until his departure for Samoa (where he died in 1894). Thus, the Plans for Middle Road improvements were prepared soon after his departure from that house and…
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RARE: Original Plans for an Addition to Skerryvore the Home of Robert Louis Stevenson [Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde]
by Stevenson, Robert Louis; Sumner, Heywood
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