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A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES

by Robert Louis Stevenson

Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith

Published by Longmans, Green & Co.. Circa. 1910

Fair condition. Dark blue cloth, gilt title to spine. Large pictorial onlay to front. Decorated endpapers. 12 colour plates with tissue-paper guards. Numerous b/w text illustration. Top edge gilt.

Covers are very worn and badly dampstained. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Name in ink to front pastedown. Inscription in ink to half title-page. Endpapers lightly browned. Front joint cracked between endpaper and half-title, showing webbing beneath. Some light fingering but contents generally clean.

Stock no. 1324901

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Contents

  • To Alison Cunningham from Her Boy
  • Bed In Summer
  • A Thought
  • At The Sea Side
  • Young Night Thought
  • Whole Duty of Children
  • Rain
  • Pirate Story
  • Foreign Lands
  • Windy Nights
  • Travel
  • Singing
  • Looking Forward
  • A Good Play
  • Where Go The Boats
  • Auntie's Skirts
  • The Land of Counterpane
  • The Land of Nod
  • My Shadow
  • System
  • A Good Boy
  • Escape at Bedtime
  • Marching Song
  • The Cow
  • Happy Thought
  • The Wind
  • Keepsake Mill
  • Good and Bad Children
  • Foreign Children
  • The Sun Travels
  • The Lamplighter
  • My Bed is A Boat
  • The Moon
  • The Swing
  • Time to Rise
  • Looking Glass River
  • Fairy Bread
  • From a Railway Carriage
  • Winter Time
  • The Hayloft
  • Farewell to the Farm
  • Northwest Passage - 1, Good Night, 2, Shadow March, 3, In Port
  • THE CHILD ALONE
  • The Unseen Playmate
  • My Ship and I
  • My Kingdom
  • Picture Books in Winter
  • My Treasures
  • Block City
  • The Land of Story Books
  • Armies in the Fire
  • The Little Land
  • GARDEN DAYS
  • Night and Day
  • Nest Eggs
  • The Flowers
  • Summer Sun
  • The Dumb Soldier
  • Autumn Fires
  • The Gardener
  • Historical Associations
  • ENVOYS
  • To Willie and Henrietta
  • To My Mother
  • To Auntie
  • To Minnie
  • To My Name Child
  • To Any Bearer

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