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STEVENSON, Robert Louis (1850-1894). A Child's Garden of Verses. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1885.
Small 8o (162 x 107 mm). Original blue cloth over bevelled boards, front cover gilt-stamped with printer's device, spine gilt-lettered, top edge gilt, others uncut (extremities slightly rubbed); quarter morocco folding case. Provenance: Ruth Chamberlain (signature dated April 13, 1885 on front free endpaper) -- A.S.W. Rosenbach Collection (card laid in) -- purchased from John F. Fleming, New York, 11 November 1966. Exhibited: Grolier Club, 'This powerfull rime,' 1975, no. 63.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, binding with apostrophe on spine. Ashley VI, p. 5; Beinecke 192; Hayward 297. A FINE COPY.
Small 8o (162 x 107 mm). Original blue cloth over bevelled boards, front cover gilt-stamped with printer's device, spine gilt-lettered, top edge gilt, others uncut (extremities slightly rubbed); quarter morocco folding case. Provenance: Ruth Chamberlain (signature dated April 13, 1885 on front free endpaper) -- A.S.W. Rosenbach Collection (card laid in) -- purchased from John F. Fleming, New York, 11 November 1966. Exhibited: Grolier Club, 'This powerfull rime,' 1975, no. 63.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, binding with apostrophe on spine. Ashley VI, p. 5; Beinecke 192; Hayward 297. A FINE COPY.