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A Child's Garden of Verses

Robert Louis Stevenson

First published 1885
Publisher Longmans, Green and Co.
Format Hardcover
Type Collection
Pages x+101

  • 65 poems (manual count)
  • Contents entered are only those that may liberally be interpreted as speculative fiction (12 poems, all 7 publication records as of August 2017).
  • There are at least eight Project Gutenberg editions: ebook #136, without bibliographic data or images, and seven documented illustrated editions originally from 1895 to 1919: #19722, 25608, 25609, 25610, 25611, 25617, and 28722.

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.

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
A Child's Garden of Verses Cover 1905 Charles Scribner's Sons Hardcover Collection Jessie Willcox Smith 105
A Child's Garden of Verses Cover 1948 Puffin Paperback Collection PS22 Eve Garnett 110
A Child's Garden of Verses Cover 1994 Puffin Paperback Collection Alan Cracknell xii+104
A Child's Garden of Verses 2008 Project Gutenberg eBook Collection 25609 Jessie Willcox Smith
A Child's Garden of Verses Cover 2008 Puffin eBook Collection Eve Garnett
A Child's Garden of Verses Cover 2012 Alfred A. Knopf eBook Collection