Stevenson, Robert Louis | "The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.”

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Stevenson, Robert Louis

A Child’s Garden of Verses. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1885

Small 8vo (160 x 105 mm). Half-title, with no mention of "Two Series" in list of works by the author. Publisher’s blue cloth, bevel boards, publisher’s signet gilt on cover, spine gilt-lettered with the apostrophe like the number "7" and "of" in smaller type, top edge gilt, newspaper clipping obituary for Stevenson’s nurse Alison Cunningham, for whom this book was dedicated, laid in; text block slightly shaken. Housed in custom clamshell case.

First edition, first issue, one of 1,000 copies. One of the most enduring collections of verse for the young, Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses brought together poems concerning childhood, illness, play, and solitude. 

REFERENCE:

Beinecke 193

PROVENANCE:

John Kensington (signature to verso of "by the same author")