Robert Louis Stevenson
Carr did not state that he had published more than one impression of the poems of Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) in his History of the QTP (1987). The first edition was one of the first 15 titles that Carr published in the early 1970s although an ISBN was registered in August 1975. It is possible that there were two editions before it was re-issued in about 1990, when an impession edited by Heulwen Williams was issued with the serial number 95. Two impressions have been seen, but there may be more.
(Last updated on 22/11/2020)
SBP-STE1: First edition
Title: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher: J.L. Carr Publisher, 27 Milldale Road, Kettering
Year: 1975, possibly earlier
ISBN: 0900847646 (may not be applied to this impression)
Size: 128 x 94 mm
Pages: 16
Staples: one
Binding: white printed glossy covers
Paper: white
Editor: (J.L. Carr)
Cover artist: Christopher Fiddes
Internal illustrations: none
Number in series: none stated
Colophon: sun face 1964 with name above and address below
Telephone number: 4995
Printing history: none stated
Number of other titles listed: 15
Printed by: Harry Richardson (Printers) Ltd., Water Street, Kettering
Rear and front covers (click to enlarge)
Inside rear cover (click to enlarge)
Content: Dates of birth and death; quotation; Go little book, and wish to all...; I will make you brooches...; Bright is the ring of words...; To the heart of youth...; Let beauty awake in the morn...; She rested by the broken brook...; The infinite shining heavens...; Home no more home to me...; In dream unhappy...; Sing me a song of a lad that is gone...; This is the song of the sword of Alan; The celestial surgeon; Blows the wind today; We'll walk the woods no more...; I have trod...; Requiem.
Notes: This is the first edition but, given the number of titles listed, it may not be the impression given an ISBN in August 1975, as that is a later date than other impressions that also list only 15 titles. It was issued in Mini-Poets
series.
SBP-STE2: Second impression?
Title: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher: J.L. Carr, 27 Mill Dale Road, Kettering
Year: 1989/1990?
ISBN: none
Size: 130 x 95 mm
Pages: 16
Staples: two
Binding: white printed glossy covers
Paper: cream laid
Editor: Arranged by Heulwen Williams
Cover artist: [Christopher Fiddes]
Internal illustrations: 14 small illustrations and flower decorations
Number in series: 95
Colophon: sun face 1964
Telephone number: none
Printing history: none stated
Number of other titles listed: none
Printed by: none stated
Rear and front covers (click to enlarge)
Inside rear cover (click to enlarge)
Content: Dates of birth and death; Go little book, and wish to all...; Sing me a song of a lad that is gone...; We'll walk the woods no more...; I will make you brooches...; Bright is the ring of words...; Blows the wind today...; She rested by the broken brook...; The celestial surgeon; Let beauty awake in the morn...; Home no more home to me...; To the heart of youth...; In dreams unhappy...; The infinite shining heavens...; This is the song of the sword of Alan; To Alison Cunningham; To any reader; Happy thought; To my mother; Whole duty of children; Looking forward; I have trod...; Requiem; quotations.
Notes: This is a late impression, probably produced after 1987. This is one of seven titles numbered 95. The others are: Belloc, Byron, Pleasing Instructor, The Young Women's Old Testament, Margaret Wells, and the Dictionary of English Cricketers volume 2.