A Child's Garden of Verses.

  • 1978
By Stevenson, Robert Louis; JOYCE LANCASTER WILSON
1978. LANCASTER, Joyce Wilson. A Child's Garden of Verses. By Robert Louis Stevenson. 114, [4] pp. Illustrated throughout by Joyce Lancaster Wilson with 9 full-page woodcuts, 36 woodcut initials, and several woodcut vignettes of various sizes. Large 8vo., 250 x 160 mm, bound in half morocco over boards, title in gilt on spine. San Francisco: The Press in Tuscany Alley, 1978. Nine poems by Stevenson are published here for the first time. The book is a combination of colourful initials, vignettes and full-page plates, designed and printed by Joyce Lancaster Wilson and skillfully printed by her husband, the renowned San Franciscan scholar-printer Adrian Wilson, in Centaur and Arrighi types. One of 500 copies, signed by the illustrator.

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Title

A Child's Garden of Verses.

Author

Stevenson, Robert Louis; JOYCE LANCASTER WILSON

Condition

Unknown

Date

1978


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