A Child's Garden of Verses by Stevenson, Robert Louis - 1885

London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1885. First edition, first issue. Hardcover. Very good. 101pp. Sextodecimo [16.5 cm] Blue cloth over boards, with beveled edges, a gilt stamped title on the backstrip, and the publisher's device stamped in gilt on the front board. Top edge gilt. Fore and bottom edges rough-trimmed. The spine is slightly rolled, and the extremities are gently bumped and rubbed. The endpapers are darkened. The rear free endpaper has a 4" crack along the hinge (the book is very sound structurally). There is a faint blindstamp to the title page. Housed in custom green cloth chemise, and 3/4 leather with marbled paper slipcase. The spine of the slipcase is sunned.

No mention of "Two Series" in the author's list of books. "Of" on spine in smaller type. Gilt stamped apostrophe is curved.

Ex-libris George Barr McCutcheon, with his bookplate on the front pastedown. George Barr McCutcheon (1866-1928) was an American novelist, primarily known for the romantic novel Graustark, and the comic fantasy Brewster's Millions.

The front pastedown also bears the later, gilt-stamped leather bookplate of Janet Cook Loeb, prominent social worker, and founder and first president of the Adoption and Children's Services of the Family Service of Westchester, NY. One of the primary works of children's literature, and a title which to this day occupies a central position in many children's libraries. A first edition in the preferred binding.