STEVENSON, Robert Louis.

£2,000 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

A Child's Garden of Verses. First edition, first issue. Stevenson's collection of 64 poems is considered one of the most influential children's works of the 19th century.This copy has all points of first issue: the apostrophe on the spine shaped like the number "7", "of" on the spine in smaller type, and no mention of "Two Series" in the list of the author's works.

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