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Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, London, United KingdomMaggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA

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Illustrated with line drawings by Charles Robinson. First Charles Robinson edition. 8vo. Original green cloth with charming gilt designs on both covers, gilt lettering and design on spine. London: John Lane; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896 [i.e. One of the classic books of verse for children ? much loved and much reprinted, very frequently with Robinson?s illustrations. This book of simple verse was written after Stevenson and his wife Fanny moved to Hyères in the South of France, where he suffered a haemorrhage in 1882 which affected his ability to write prose. Includes some of his most famous verse: ?The Land of Counterpane?, ?From a Railway Carriage?, and ?The Lamplighter? Robinson?s cover designs are characteristically playful. The spine and back cover depict little girls gardening. The front cover is perhaps a play on the notion of the enclosed / walled garden. The garden seems at once to be growing from the plant pot held by the child and conjured up from their imagination. With a gift inscription, dated Xmas 1895, to Margaret Knatchbull-Hugessen from her mother. The recipient (1883-1957) was the daughter of the Liberal peer and politician Edward Knatchbull-Hugessen, 2nd Baron Brabourne. 16 pp. publisher?s ads at end. Fine, bright copy.…

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Bibliographic details

Title
A Child's Garden of Verse.
Author
ROBINSON, Charles., illustrations. & STEVENSON, Robert Louis.
Publication year
1895
Binding
Hardcover

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Established in 1853, Maggs Brothers is one of the world's oldest antiquarian booksellers still operating today. We sell books worldwide through the internet as well as from our regularly published catalogues, and we are delighted to welcome customers to our two premises in Bloomsbury and Mayfair.

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Travel Books, illustrated books, Illuminated manuscripts and miniatures, Bookbindings, Continental books including incunabula, Fine printing, Autographs and Manuscripts, English-language literature of all periods, books of the Far East including Japanese photobooks

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Maggs Bros. Ltd., 48 Bedford Square
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