John Lane; The Bodley Head; 1903. Eighth edition. Green cloth covered boards with gilt decoration and lettering to front and spine. Slight shelf wear to spine top and bottom. Corners rubbed. Page edges gilded. Previous owners name to FFEP. Tanning to FFEP and RFEP. Very minor age spots. Illustrated by Charles Robinson. A beautiful copy.

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Bookseller: Book Attic (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 0104051
Title: A Child's Garden Verse
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator: Charles Robinson
Format/Binding: Hbk.
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: Eighth Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: John Lane; The Bodley Head
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1903
Pages: 137 pp.
Weight: 0.00 lbs
Bookseller catalogs: Children - Poetry;

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Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
Shelf Wear: Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
RFEP: The portion of the endpaper which is left loose after binding. The first loose page upon opening a book from the rear. It may be...
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
FFEP: A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...