Kidnapped, Being the Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751, Collector's Edition

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1991. First Edition thus. Leather bound. Fine. N.C. WYETH. First edition thus. 8vo; xiv, 289pp; gilt-stamped green grained leather, color pictorial onlay to front board; gilt stamped 3 raised band spine; pale peach moiré linings; all edges gilt; silk bookmark; 14 color plates including frontispiece; 2 pp map after xiv, Sketch of the Cruise of the Brig Covenant, and the probable course of David Balfour's Wanderings; fine. The novel was first published in 1893 as a serial in Young Folks magazine and features an historical plot of murder after the Jacobite uprising in Scotland in 1745. Some dialogue of Lowland Scots. (Inventory #: 891)