Apr 26, 2018 - Sale 2475

Sale 2475 - Lot 58

Price Realized: $ 1,625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
CRANE, WALTER /ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATION ART. "An Inland Voyage." Pencil study for the frontispiece published in Robert Louis Stevenson's An Inland Voyage (London: C. Keegan Paul and Co., 1878). 165x104 mm; 6 1/2x4 inches, on 8 3/4x6 3/4-inch sheet. Brief description in lower margin in an unknown hand, unevenly toned, pinhole in centaur medallion at top and another in right margin. Laid into custom board and linen chemise and cloth-backed case (the latter worn). ex-collection henry e. gerstley with his book label mounted to inside flap. Np, circa 1878

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A charming, fairly detailed study of the well-known image for the first English edition of Stevenson's famous travelogue. Gerstley's fine collection of Stevenson resides at Princeton University Library's Department of Rare Books and Special Collections.