A Child's Garden of Verses
| 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.
| Page | Title | Author(s) | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | Young Night Thought | Robert Louis Stevenson | Poem |
| 9 | Pirate Story | Robert Louis Stevenson | Poem |
| 10 | Foreign Lands | Robert Louis Stevenson | Poem |
| 13 | Travel | Robert Louis Stevenson | Poem |
| 20 | The Land of Counterpane | Robert Louis Stevenson | Poem |
| 21 | The Land of Nod | Robert Louis Stevenson | Poem |
| 44 | Fairy Bread | Robert Louis Stevenson | Poem |
| 45 | From a Railway Carriage | Robert Louis Stevenson | Poem |
| 50 | North-West Passage | Robert Louis Stevenson | Poem |
| 55 | The Unseen Playmate | Robert Louis Stevenson | Poem |
| 80 | The Flowers | Robert Louis Stevenson | Poem |
| 88 | Historical Associations | Robert Louis Stevenson | Poem |
| Title | Year | Publisher | Format | Type | Catalog ID | Cover Artist | Pages | |
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1905 | Charles Scribner's Sons | Hardcover | Collection | Jessie Willcox Smith | 105 | |
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1948 | Puffin | Paperback | Collection | PS22 | Eve Garnett | 110 |
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1994 | Puffin | Paperback | Collection | Alan Cracknell | xii+104 | |
| A Child's Garden of Verses | 2008 | Project Gutenberg | eBook | Collection | 25609 | Jessie Willcox Smith | ||
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2008 | Puffin | eBook | Collection | Eve Garnett | ||
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2012 | Alfred A. Knopf | eBook | Collection |