Treasure Island and Kidnapped: N. C. Wyeth Collector’s Edition (2-vol. clothbound set) Hardcover – November 16, 2021 by Robert Louis Stevenson

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Author: Stevenson Robert Louis

Package Dimensions: 55x232x1286

Number Of Pages: 576

Release Date: 16-11-2021

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Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic adventure stories, with N. C. Wyeth’s iconic illustrations―now available in a collectible two-volume set N. C. Wyeth’s illustrations to
Treasure Island and
Kidnapped―first published in 1911 and 1913, respectively, by Charles Scribner’s Sons―made his artistic reputation. With a bold mastery of light and color, Wyeth brilliantly conveyed action, character, and setting, lending an extra excitement to Robert Louis Stevenson’s tales of pirates and buried treasure, and intrigue in the Scottish Highlands. Now readers can enjoy this classic author-illustrator pairing in a handsome two-volume set with a new introduction by Christine B. Podmaniczky, a leading expert on N. C. Wyeth.
Book Description
Two-volume boxed set
About the Author
Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Scotland in 1850 and died in Samoa in 1894. He is one of the world’s best-loved writers in prose and verse.

N. C. Wyeth (1882–1945), the celebrated American painter and muralist, illustrated many works of classic literature.

Christine B. Podmaniczky is Curator Emerita, N. C. Wyeth Catalogue Raisonné, at the Brandywine River Museum of Art. Until 2019, she was the museum’s Curator of N. C. Wyeth Collections and Historic Properties