• Publication: A Child's Garden of VersesPublication Record # 382757
• Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
• Date: 1885-03-00
• Publisher: Longmans, Green and Co.
• Pages: x+101
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: COLLECTION
• Notes: 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.

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 6 • Young Night Thought • juvenile • poem by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 9 • Pirate Story • juvenile • poem by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 10 • Foreign Lands • juvenile • (1884) • poem by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 13 • Travel • juvenile • poem by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 20 • The Land of Counterpane • juvenile • (1884) • poem by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 21 • The Land of Nod • juvenile • poem by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 44 • Fairy Bread • juvenile • poem by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 45 • From a Railway Carriage • juvenile • poem by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 50 • North-West Passage • juvenile • (1884) • poem by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 55 • The Unseen Playmate • juvenile • poem by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 80 • The Flowers • juvenile • poem by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 88 • Historical Associations • juvenile • poem by Robert Louis Stevenson