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A Child's Garden of Verses - A Collection of Poetry for Children - Robert Louis Stevenson - A Child's Garden of Verses is a collection of poetry for children by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. The collection first appeared in 1885 under the title Penny Whistles, but has been reprinted many times, often in illustrated versions. It contains about 65 poems including the cherished classics "Foreign Children," "The Lamplighter," "The Land of Counterpane," "Bed in Summer," "My Shadow" and "The Swing." The classical scholar Terrot Reaveley Glover published a translation of the poems into Latin in 1922 under the title Carmina non prius audita de ludis et hortis virginibus puerisque.

A Child's Garden of Verses is a collection of poetry for children by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. The collection first appeared in 1885 under the title Penny Whistles, but has been reprinted many times, often in illustrated versions. It contains about 65 poems including the cherished classics "Foreign Children," "The Lamplighter," "The Land of Counterpane," "Bed in Summer," "My Shadow" and "The Swing."

Hardcover; Fair; Hard cover with illustrated front boards. (No ISBN stated) The classic book of children's poems and stories and illustrations in an abbreviated version the size of 5½ inches by 6½ inches. 44 glorious black and white illustrations copywrited in 1919 (Ruth Mary Hallock). Fair copy securely attached to boards, page edges heavily soiled, pages lightly soiled, stray children's scribbles on three pages, owner's name written on first page, fair boards, heavily soiled, delicately colored illustration on front board of "The Wind." Children's