A Child's Garden of Verses

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.