The master of Ballantrae /
Stevenson, Robert Louis,1850-1894.
Prideaux, William Francis,1840-1914.Bibliography of the works of Robert Lewis Stevenson.
[New York : C. Scribner's Sons],
1888.
"Price one shilling"--at head of front wrapper.
This is a 'copyright edition' of the first five chapters of the novel printed a year before the novel's general release for the purposes of securing copyright.
According to Prideaux, only 10 copies of this copyright edition were printed, one of which was destroyed.
Beinecke