Lot 144 , Stevenson, Robert Louis - A Child's Garden of Verses, limited edition (printed on Japanese vellum) of 150 copies. pictorial title and illus. throughout (by Charles Robinson)

° Stevenson, Robert Louis - A Child's Garden of Verses, limited edition (printed on Japanese vellum) of 150 copies. pictorial title and illus. throughout (by Charles Robinson); this whole edition (somewhat curiously) put up in the Methuen's Edinburgh Edition cloth binding, with the publisher's own green gilt pictorial cloth mounted on e/ps. John Lane and (N.|Y.) Charles Scriber's Sons, 1896; Prideaux, W.F. A Bibliography of the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson. portrait and nine facsimiles; original red cloth with printed spine label, gilt top. Frank Hollings, & (N.Y.), Charles Scriber's Sons, 1903: A Stevenson Medley. Limited Edition (of 300 copies, signed by the publisher). portrait frontis., title illus. mounted, text illus., facsimiles at end (some folded, some as booklets), publisher's morocco backed cloth with gilt top, 1899
£100-140

Condition:
Child's - spine label soiled, fore-edge foxing, o/w good. 20th pict, bkplt., spare label tipped-in, XIV, 140 and (3)pp., incl. advert leaf, incl. pict. half title; Prideaux - 'Edinburgh Edition' bndg, as previous, fore-edge foxing o/w good, 20thC bkplt.; spare label tipped-in, XVI, 301pp. and advert. leaf; Medley - sl. spine wear, else good, XI, 51pp

Sold for £130