A child’s garden of verse

Illustrated by Charles Robinson. London : John Lane, The Bodley Head, circa 1910. Octavo, finely bound by Bayntun-Riviere of Bath in full crushed blue morocco, ruled in gilt with decorative floral design on upper and lower boards, spine in compartments with raised bands, lettered in gilt with floral ornamentation, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, pp. [xvi]; 156, (4 – catalogue), colour plates, black and white illustrations, a fine copy.

An exquisitely bound copy of this classic book of verse for children, the elaborately gilt binding by Bayntun-Riviere encasing this treasury of illustrated rhymes and verse.