Research Catalog

Title

The black arrow : a tale of the two roses / by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Author

Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894.

Publication

New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1888.

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Details

Additional Authors

Charles Scribner's Sons, publisher.

Description

xi, 322 p. : 11 pl.; 19 cm.

Summary

In fifteenth-century England, when his father's murderer is revealed to be his guardian, seventeen-year-old Richard Shelton joins the fellowship of the Black Arrow in avenging the death, rescuing the woman he loves, and participating in the struggle between the Yorks and Lancasters in the War of the Roses.

Subject

• Richard III, King of England, 1452-1485 > Fiction
• Richard III, King of England, 1452-1485
• 1455-1485
• Adventure and adventurers > Fiction
• War > Fiction
• Great Britain > History > Wars of the Roses, 1455-1485 > Fiction
• Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 1455-1485 (Guerre des Deux-Roses) > Romans, nouvelles, etc
• Great Britain

Genre/Form

• Fiction
• History
• Historical fiction.
• Fiction.
• Juvenile literature.
• Publishers' advertisements.
• Romans.

Note

• Authorized edition (cover).
• "Author's Edition."
• Red smooth cloth.
• Inscribed by Stevenson on half-title: "To Marie. With compliments of the Author Robert Louis Stevenson. 1888."
• Book label of H. R. S[tern]. Jr.
• Yellow paper wrappers.

Indexed In (note)

• George L. McKay, comp., A Stevenson Library; Catalogue of a Collection of Writings by and about Robert Louis Stevenson Formed by Edwin J. Beinecke, New Haven, Yale University Library, 1951-64
• Wainwright (Parrish), Stevenson

Source (note)

• Morris L. Parrish Collection of Victorian Novelists, bequest of Mr. Parrish.
• Acquired through the generosity of, or presented by, Robert H. Taylor.

Provenance (note)

• ExParrish copy signed by the author.

LCCN

04018331

OCLC

• ocm02584434
• 2584434
• SCSB-307838

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library