Books and Manuscripts

Stevenson, Robert Louis
A Child's Garden of Verses
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1885. First edition, first printing (one of 1,000 copies printed). 12mo. (ii), x, 101 pp. Publisher's blue cloth-covered beveled-edge boards, stamped in gilt, slightly cocked, spine and boards darkened and slightly soiled, joints rubbed, corners worn, spine ends frayed and lightly chipped; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; front hinge starting; contemporary booksellers ticket at bottom of front paste-down, book-plate of Francis Wilson on same, with their signature on front free endpaper. Beinecke 193; Prideaux 14

First edition of Stevenson's classic verses for children.