Lot Details
Lot 177
STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS A Child's Garden of Verses.
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1885. First edition, first issue, one of perhaps 1,000 copies. Publisher's blue cloth, with publisher's logo in gilt at top left of front cover, gilt apostrophe on spine with curved tail, gilt "of" on spine in smaller type; housed in a leather-backed slipcase and chemise. 6 1/4 x 4 inches (16 x 10.5 cm); x, 201, [1] pp., without ads as issued. Boards a little rubbed and soiled, lacking front free endpaper, partially erased 1885 ownership in a child's hand on first blank , internally some foxing and spotting.
Dedicated to Stevenson's nurse Alison Cunningham, this collection of verses by Stevenson is among the first such by a major author to be addressed to a juvenile audience. Prideaux 14; Hayward 297; Grolier Club Stevenson 55; Gumuchian 5440; Osborne II: 662.
C The Library of Duncan Cranford
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