[ Books ] (CRAIG, EDWARD GORDON.) Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Essay on Walt Whitman. Frontispiece portrait, illustrated title-page by Louis Rhead, and watercolored initials throughout. 8vo, publisher's red suede wrappers lettered in gilt, rubbed and

[ Books ] (CRAIG, EDWARD GORDON.) Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Essay on Walt Whitman. Frontispiece portrait, illustrated title-page by Louis Rhead, and watercolored initials throughout. 8vo, publisher's red suede wrappers lettered in gilt, rubbed and chipped; few leaves becoming loose from binding. East Aurora: Roycroft, 1900 E350/500 FIRST EDITION. GORDON CRAIG'S COPY INSCRIBED TO HIM FROM HIS MOTHER, ELLEN TERRY, as a Christmas gift in 1900, and with his bookplate. Pencil notations throughout by Craig, mostly criticisms of Stevenson: "You are an idiot Stevenson with your `comicalities' . . ." Also inscribed by Gordon Craig's son to a former owner.