A Child's Garden of Verses.
STEVENSON Robert Louis (1885.)
£2000.00 [First Edition]
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First edition, first printing. Small 8vo., original blue cloth with bevelled edges, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, publisher's device in gilt to front cover, top edge in gilt, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Housed in a custom slipcase. London, Longmans, Green & Co.
Stevenson's classic collection of poetry written for children. The correct first printing, without 'Two Words' included in the list of works 'By the same author' to verso of opening leaf, and in the usual binding variant, with the apostrophe in 'Child's' to spine resembling a small number 7.
A very good copy, engraved bookplate of John Francis Neylan and small contemporary bookseller's label to front pastedown, faint offsetting to endpapers, tips of spine and corners rubbed.
Prideaux, 14.
Stock Code: 220750