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A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES
1925Best.-Nr. 18434London & Glasgow: Collins' Clear-Type Press 1925. Fine in very good plus box. Lovely and scarce edition of Stevenson's classic poems one of the better known works illustrated by portrait painter and children's artist Kate Olver. This copy has been gorgeously preserved by its retained box also in a vivid indigo shade. 9.25'' x 7.25''. Original full indigo leather stamped in pictorial gilt. Top edge gilt. Blue silk ribbon bookmark. In original publisher's indigo box with pictorial paste-on. Pictorial endpapers. Four color plates and additional black and white illustrations by Olver. 191 1 pages. Faint foxing to fore-edge and scattered faintly throughout. Unobtrusive corner repair to box and hint of sunning to edges. Collins' Clear-Type Press unknown
Type Punch Matrix · Vereinigte Staaten675,00 $≈ 603,06 €
