A Child's Garden of Verses.
Illustrated by Charles Robinson.
Stock Code 109534
London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1896
Original price
$3,250.00
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Original price
$3,250.00
Original price
$3,250.00
$3,250.00
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$3,250.00
Current price
$3,250.00
A first illustrated edition and still second only to the first edition, published in 1885 in the exceptionally rare, early state dust-jacket.
First illustrated edition (second overall) 8vo (222 x 142 mm), 16 pp. publisher's catalogue to rear dated 1895, the odd, random spot, browning to extreme edges, otherwise very good; publisher's gilt-decorated green cloth, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, offsetting and the a couple of spots to endpapers, dust-jacket with a few chips to extremities, spine-panel toned, front flap largely replaced but still a notably early example of the dust jacket.
First illustrated edition (second overall) 8vo (222 x 142 mm), 16 pp. publisher's catalogue to rear dated 1895, the odd, random spot, browning to extreme edges, otherwise very good; publisher's gilt-decorated green cloth, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, offsetting and the a couple of spots to endpapers, dust-jacket with a few chips to extremities, spine-panel toned, front flap largely replaced but still a notably early example of the dust jacket.
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