A Child's Garden of Verses
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Overview:
- Title: A Child's Garden of Verses
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Year: 1885
- Publisher: Longmans, Green and Co.
- Pages: x+101
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Collection
- Title Reference: Young Night Thought
- Notes: First edition. Second edition also published in 1885. These two impressions can be distinguished as follows: The first impression has a curved apostrophe (almost a "7") on the spine, the second impression has a straight apostrophe. The first impression has the word "OF" on the spine less than half the size of other letters in the title; the second impression has letters more than half the size of other letters.
First printing had a print run of 1000 copies.
Data from multiple antiquarian book dealers. (Which agreed on notes above.)
Contains 64 poems. Blue cover with Longman's emblem at top left; gilt top edge.
- The full text and images of the second edition are available at Google Books.
- Only the contents that could be liberally interpreted as Speculative Fiction have been indexed.