The Library of an English Bibliophile, Part IV

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Lot 161
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Stevenson, Robert Louis

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Description

  • Stevenson, Robert Louis
  • A Child's Garden of Verses. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1885
  • paper
8vo (159 x 104mm.), FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, half-title, original blue cloth stamped and lettered in gilt (Beinecke first binding), top edge gilt, blue cloth case and slipcase, offsetting to endpapers, minor wear to cloth

Provenance

J.W. Mackail, ownership signature

Literature

Prideaux 14; Beinecke 192

Catalogue Note

A near fine copy of this much reprinted collection of verse in which classic childhood poems such as 'The Land of Counterpane', 'The Land of Nod', 'My Shadow' and 'My Bed is a Boat' first appear.