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STEVENSON, Robert Louis (1850–1894). A Child’s Garden of Verses. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1885. 12mo (159 x 108 mm). Half–title, printer’s device to title. Publisher’s blue cloth over beveled boards, publisher’s gilt device stamped to upper cover, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt; others uncut (sig. D quire starting, contemporary gift inscription to ffep); cloth clamshell gilt lettered. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with the curved apostrophe in the word “Child’s” and “of” in smaller type on spine. AN ATTRACTIVE COPY with the first appearances of “The Land of Nod”, “The Land of Counterpane”, “Uncle Sparky” and other first appearances of notable children’s poetry by Stevenson. McKay 192; Prideaux 14.