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Robert Louis Stevenson
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A Child's Garden of Verses
Robert Louis Stevenson
STEVENSON, Robert Louis (1850-1894). A Child's Garden of Verses. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1885.
First edition, first printing, a fine copy in the rare binding variant with apostrophe on spine. Stevenson's poems for children are dedicated to his childhood nurse Alison Cunningham. Many of them were written when Stevenson was ill in bed. Ashley VI, p. 5; Beinecke 192; Hayward 297.
Octavo. Half-title and ad leaf. Original blue cloth over bevelled boards, front cover gilt-stamped with printer's device, top edges gilt, others uncut (light wear at corners).
Robert Louis Stevenson
STEVENSON, Robert Louis (1850-1894). A Child's Garden of Verses. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1885.
First edition, first printing, a fine copy in the rare binding variant with apostrophe on spine. Stevenson's poems for children are dedicated to his childhood nurse Alison Cunningham. Many of them were written when Stevenson was ill in bed. Ashley VI, p. 5; Beinecke 192; Hayward 297.
Octavo. Half-title and ad leaf. Original blue cloth over bevelled boards, front cover gilt-stamped with printer's device, top edges gilt, others uncut (light wear at corners).
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