A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES; By Robert Louis Stevenson by Stevenson, Robert Louis - 1885

London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1885. First Edition. Half leather over marbled boards. Very Good/None. 16mo (6 3/8" x 4 3/8"), dark green half Morocco with gold lettering & five raised hubs on spine over marbled maroon mottled boards, inner dentelles, top page edges gilt, thin black ribbon as page marker, x + 101 pages (with rough-cut fore-edges). A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES is one of the most famous collections of poetry for children about childhood, illness, play and solitude by the famous Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. This edition first appeared under the title Penny Whistles ([1883]). It contains about 65 poems including the classics "The Land of Story-Books," "The Lamplighter," "The Land of Counterpane," "Bed in Summer," "My Shadow" and the "Whole Duty of Children."<br/><br/>Attractively bound First Edition of Stevenson's children's classic (1885). Solid copy without internal annotations and no signs of previous ownership. Slight offset by dentelles on endpaper borders. The gilt lettering on the spine has faded somewhat. Pages are clean and quite bright with occasional light spots. Some rubbing to joints, corners, and edges. All-in-all, a hard-to-find and lovely copy of this classic.<br/><br/>Robert Louis Stevenson / A Catalogue ... Pirinceton University Library, 20A.