The Best Thing in Edinburgh

San Francisco: John Howell, 1923 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Number 72 of 250 copies printed on handmade paper. Introduction by Katharine D. Osbourne. Thin quarto. Pp. [4], 8, [1]. Two initials in blue. Gray-blue boards, tan cloth spine, white paper label. Upper rear corner ever so slightly jammed, lower edge of rear free endpaper with small half inch section torn away. Overall, a fine copy of a fragile book. An address by Stevenson to the Speculative Society of Edinburgh in March, 1873. The colophon states the typography was designed by Edwin Grabhorn, and printed by The Kennedy-ten Bosch Company under the direction of Haywood H. Hunt. A note in the Grabhorn bibliography (p.34) states that the colophon statement was an error and that the Press had nothing to do with the publication..