A Child's Garden of Verses

by Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Robinson

$375 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books · No longer available

London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1896. Children's FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION, first impression thus. Octavo 20 x 13cm , pp.xiv; 137 23 Publisher's catalogue at rear dated 1895. With wood engraved illustrations by Robinson throughout. Publisher's green cloth, with gilt titles and further decoration to spine, and gilt decoration to boards. All edges gilt. Contents clean, engraved bookplate to pastedown, gilt is bright, one bump to lower corner of rear

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