A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES
- London & Glasgow: Collins' Clear-Type Press, 1925
London & Glasgow: Collins' Clear-Type Press, 1925. Fine in very good plus box.. Lovely and scarce edition of Stevenson's classic poems, one of the better known works illustrated by portrait painter and children's artist Kate Olver. This copy has been gorgeously preserved by its retained box, also in a vivid indigo shade. 9.25'' x 7.25''. Original full indigo leather stamped in pictorial gilt. Top edge gilt. Blue silk ribbon bookmark. In original publisher's indigo box with pictorial paste-on. Pictorial endpapers. Four color plates and additional black and white illustrations by Olver. 191, [1] pages. Faint foxing to fore-edge and scattered faintly throughout. Unobtrusive corner repair to box and hint of sunning to edges.
Details
Title
A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES
Author
Stevenson, Robert Louis; Olver, Kate Elizabeth; Alma Tadema, Laurence
Condition
Very Good
Publisher
Collins' Clear-Type Press: London & Glasgow
Date
1925