Portrayed sympathetically from multiple viewpoints we find ourselves amidst genuine 18th-century Scottish events, notably the 1745 Appin Murder, committed in the aftermath of the Jacobite rising. Many characters, including a principal, Alan Breck Stewart, are real people.

The work’s fuller title — “Kidnapped: Being the Adventures of David Balfour: How he was Kidnapped and Cast away; his Sufferings in a Desert Isle; His Journey in the Wild Highlands; his acquaintance with Alan Breck Stewart and other notorious Highland Jacobites; with all that he suffered at the hands of his Uncle, Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws, falsely so-called: Written by Himself and now set forth by Robert Louis Stevenson.”

Generally considered the ultimate printing because this is first edition to include the final changes sent by RLS from Samoa just before his demise …

Hardback, around five inches by 7.5 tall, is bound in its publisher's original dark blue cloth. Tilting to the back-strip protecting the spine is all original gilt.

45,000th published by Cassell, London, in 1895. Free from permanent inscription and markings to the text.

Although interior condition is overall good, because this original letterpress book is old, it does display minor signs of use and age [as photos, below] — tear to map’s right edge; tear without loss to plate at p 264 which, like one other, is loose but present; occasional minor markings; the usual discolouration to old paper — consistent with a printed object of this vintage. All (viii) preliminary pages + 319 pp main text + (16 unpainted pp) publisher’s list at rear are complete and otherwise correct.

¶ Robert Louis Stevenson aka Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson (1850–1894); Scottish novelist, essayist, poet ¶

¶¶ William Brassey Hole RSA (1846–1917); Scottish painter, engraver and illustrator ¶¶

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