Lullaby-Land. Songs of Childhood.
Selected by Kenneth Grahame.
Stock Code 104202
London; New York, John Lane The Bodley Head; Charles Scribner's Sons, 1898
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A great gift-book for children, compiled from the works of Eugene Field by Kenneth Grahame (of The Wind in the Willows fame). The edition went through a range of variant bindings, a selection of which are included here, alongside the first US edition, in itself an uncommon edition; the described copy being the preferred, first issue, with all edges gilt and the advertisements.
First edition, first issue(?); 6 volumes, 8vo; frontispiece, pictorial title and illustrations by Charles Robinson, 12pp. advertisements, contemporary ink name and spotting to front endpapers; publisher's green straight-grain gilt pictorial cloth, spine slightly browned, light sunning, gilt edges; with 4 other, variant issues of the same, and the first US edition.
First edition, first issue(?); 6 volumes, 8vo; frontispiece, pictorial title and illustrations by Charles Robinson, 12pp. advertisements, contemporary ink name and spotting to front endpapers; publisher's green straight-grain gilt pictorial cloth, spine slightly browned, light sunning, gilt edges; with 4 other, variant issues of the same, and the first US edition.
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