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King Charles, Princess Anne, Sir Tim Laurence, Prince Edward, Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh, David, Lord Snowdon, Lady Sarah Chatto, Arthur Chatto and Samuel Chatto walking to St Mary Magdalene Church to attend the morning mass on 25th December 2023.
Born on July 28 1996, Samuel David Benedict Chatto is the eldest son of Lady Sarah Chatto and Daniel Chatto, the eldest grandson of Princess Margaret and a grandnephew of Queen Elizabeth II. He is currently 28th in the line of succession to the British throne.
Samuel graduated from Eton College and later studied Art History at the University of Edinburgh.
25 December 2022
Lady Sarah Chatto, Arthur Chatto, Samuel Chatto, Daniel Chatto and David Armstrong-Jones attend the Christmas Day church service, Sandringham
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) is a well-known Scottish writer and poet, but we just learned that he also tried his hand at woodcuts and wood engraving, illustrating several of his early works in small, handprinted editions. The wood engravings shown here are from a facsimile of his 1883 poetry chapbook The Graver & The Pen, included in A Stevenson Medley, published in London by Chatto and Windus in 1899 in a limited edition of 300 copies initialed by Walter Biggar Blaikie, who was director of the book's Edinburgh printer T. and A. Constable.
Stevenson had established his own private press, Davos Press, with his then 14-year-old stepson, American author Samuel Lloyd Osbourne (1868-1947), after his winter stays in Davos, Switzerland in 1881 and 1882. The press quickly morphed into S. L. Osbourne & Co. of Edinburgh, Scotland. This booklet was originally printed by Osbourne in the small Scottish Highland town of Kingussie on a press borrowed from the bookseller and stationer George A. Crerar because "ours was broken." The engravings were made in boxwood and for this facsimile they were "printed -- no easy task -- from the original blocks . . . ."
View our other posts of works by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Princess Anne, her husband Sir Tim Laurence, their niece Lady Louise Windsor as well as the Earl of Snowdon and Samuel Chatto wearing matching scarves as they attend the Christmas Day service at St Mary Magdalene Church, on 25 December 2023 🥰