A Child's Garden of Verses

New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1900. Three-Quarter Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. Robinson, Charles. Rebound, and gifted by binder to a relative. Edges rubbed, ink names. 1900 Three-Quarter Leather. xiv, 136 pp. Scottish novelist, poet and essayist Robert Louis Stevenson dedicated A Child's Garden of Verses to Alison Cunningham, the nurse of his early childhood years in Edinburgh—a time whose essence he strove to recapture in the sixty-four poems of this long-treasured collection.