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A Child's Garden of Verses.

Illustrated by Charles Robinson.

Stock Code 109534

London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1896

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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.

Provenance

Provenance: Margaret De Courcy Lewthwaite Dewar 1878-1959, (her self-designed bookplate, Scottish designer and member of the 'Glasgow Girls')

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A Child's Garden of Verses.

STEVENSON, Robert Louis.

Stock code: 109534

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