By R.L. Stevenson
London   T.C. and E.C. Jack
10.5" by 8" 55pp
A colourfully illustrated children's work of garden verses, written by noted Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson.
By R.L. Stevenson

c1915 Songs with Music

London   T.C. and E.C. Jack
10.5" by 8" 55pp
A colourfully illustrated children's work of garden verses, written by noted Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson.
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Description

Colour Plates, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

A children's book containing many charming verses and ballads about nature, the outdoors, and other delightful topics. 

Written by renowned nineteenth-century Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson, most well-known for his work Treasure Island (1883).

Containing numerous in-text illustrations, many of which are in colour, by Margaret Tarrant. 

Music has been supplied by Reverend Thomas Crawford. 

The first and only edition of this work.

Containing a previous owner's ink inscription to the front free-endpaper: 'To Jo, with fond love, from Auntie'.

Condition

In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding with pictorial paper covered boards. Externally, some shelf wear to the boards and bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities. A few light marks to the front board and tidemarks to the rear board. Previous owner's ink inscription to the front free-endpaper. Internally, front hinge is starting to the head, and binding is slightly tender. Rear free-endpaper has been amateurly removed. Pages are bright and clean throughout.

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