Map of Treasure Island

Category

Library Item

Item no

21949

Title

Map of Treasure Island

Description

A map of Treasure Island used to illustrate Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island. It consists of a printed map with annotations in different coloured ink. The map is dated August 1750. At the top a scale is surrounded by mermaids and fish. A compass and a boat are depicted to the south of the island.

Artist / maker

Unknown

Date

1886

Type

Document

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Map of Treasure Island published by Cassell & Co. Ltd. 1886 in their illustrated edition of "Treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stevenson. The name of the illustrator is not given.

Born in Edinburgh on 13th November 1850, Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, playwright and travel writer. Although he was plagued by ill health all his life, he was extraordinarily well-travelled, visiting Europe, America and the South Seas. He married American born Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne in 1880 and is best-known for works like Treasure Island (1883), Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (both 1886). From the late 1880s, Stevenson stayed in the South Pacific with his family on his own estate in Vailima in Samoa. He died here on the 3rd December 1894 of a brain haemorrhage at the age of 44, leaving what many consider his best work, Weir of Hermiston (1896) unfinished.

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