TREASURE ISLAND
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Book: Treasure Island
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher: Charles Scriber’s Sons
Publication place: New York
Publication year: 1924
Language: English
Size: 20,3 x 14,2 cm.
Pages: 388
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Robert Louis Stevenson. William Blake Richemond, oil on canvas, 1887. London, National Portrait Gallery
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) showed his Treasure Island in instalments in the magazine Young Folks, between October 1, 1881 and January 28, 1882, without anything predicting then the enormous success that the first edition in book format by Cassel & Company would have (London, 1883). The following year it was edited in the original English version by Bernhard Tauchnitz (Leipzig, 1884) and immediately translated into French as L´île du trésor by Pierre-Jules Hetzel (Paris, 1885). The first edition in the United States by Roberts Brothers (Boston, 1886), new British editions such as those of Chatto & Windus (London, 1887) or that of Collins Clear Type Press (London & Glasgow, 1890) will not be long in coming either, the latter already after the Spanish version published by Agustín Sáenz de Jubera (Madrid, 1889). The fateful year of the author’s death, his countrymen Thomas and Archibald Constable printed the first collection of his works for Longmans Green and Co. (Edinburgh, 1894), of course also with his Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde from 1886, and in 1895 a large edition appeared on the initiative of the Roberts Brothers themselves with four black and white plates by F. T. Merrit. Already in the 20th century, the most nice editions are that of the prestigious Charles Scribner’s Sons (New York, 1902-1905), with illustrations by Walter Paget and that of Charles E. Merrit (New York, 1909), with introduction and notes by Franklin T. Baker. Cassel, the first publisher, also returned to market the work at that time with a profusely illustrated edition with 46 engravings and a map (London, 1906). Later, until reaching the first quarter of the century, must be mentioned those now centenaries of Scribner’s from 1911, with illustrations by Newell Covers Wyeth, 1917-1918 and 1923-1924 with four colour plates and 43 engravings by Plaget. Finally, the careful reproduction of the first edition of Cassel from 1883 by Boni & Liveright Modern Library (New York, 1917) and the very exquisite one by John C. Winston (Philadelphia, 1924) with introduction and notes by Gilbert Sykes Blakely, and with four plates in colour and many illustrations by Frank Godwin enter in this time periode. In 1908 the first film screening directed by John Stuart Blackton was presented. The film produced by Metro Goldwyn Mayer was released in 1934.
Treasure Island. Metro Goldwyn Mayer
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