Virginibus Puerisque
by STEVENSON, Robert Louis
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Shelf wear. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Tight and clean.
This is an attractive antique copy of Stevenson's classic essay collection ("Of Maidens and Youths" in Latin). This copy is from the estate of Rex Maughan (1936-2021), major Robert Louis Stevenson collector and archivist who, as Chairman of the Robert Louis Stevenson Museum, greatly contributed to the preservation of Stevenson's estate in Valima, Samoa.
Synopsis
With the single exception of Falstaff, all Shakespeare's characters are what we call marrying men. Mercutio, as he was own cousin to Benedick and Biron, would have come to the same end in the long run. Even Iago had a wife, and, what is far stranger, he was jealous. People like Jacques and the Fool in LEAR, although we can hardly imagine they would ever marry, kept single out of a cynical humour or for a broken heart, and not, as we do nowadays, from a spirit of incredulity and preference for the single state.
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- Uncharted Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2944
- Title
- Virginibus Puerisque
- Author
- STEVENSON, Robert Louis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Chatto and Windus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1903
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