The Old Garden and Other Verses

First American edition. Octavo. Color illustrations throughout, and cover design, by Walter Crane. Text printed on one side of page only (recto or verso blank). Original color pictorial cloth, color floral endpapers (a bit rubbed). No dust jacket. Good. 114 pages. Masse page 44. Old tape stains on page 98. Top edge stained green.

London: Osgood McIlvaine & Co. 1893. 8vo.Illustrated. ix, 114 pp. Original pictorial cloth. Boards rubbed & edgeworn. Early ink owner's name to front endpaper. Pictorial endpapers. Internally clean. Colour illustrations and decorations to each page by Walter Crane. Binding firm. . Good. Pictorial Cloth. First Edition. 1893.

Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1894. First American Edition. In original colourfully decorated cloth, which is slightly rubbed but in very good condition overall. Inside the poetry is beautifully highlighted by historiated initials and framed within decorative borders - all by Walter Crane. Floral endpapers. Neatly repaired closed tear to front end paper. Pages are French folded (so… Read more about this item

Boston / New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1894. Collection of sentimental poems, the author's first book, here newly & exquisitely illustrated by the influential English artist Walter Crane with almost every page featuring decorative initials & illustrations, many in multiple colors. First American edition thus, 1894, first published in this form in England the previous year. Hardcover, as pictured. Light wear… Read more about this item

Houghton Mifflin Co.. Good. 1888. Hardcover. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) by author laid in, dated June 25th 914 from Kennebunkport, Maine: ".....The verses which you ask about are in a little volume of mine, called 'An Old Garden'...." 1888 printing of 6th edition of author's first book. Plain white boards with gilt titles, soiled. Remains of… Read more about this item

Boston, New York, Cambridge: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, The Riverside Press, 1888. 4th Edition . Hardcover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Firmly bound, decorated gray cloth boards with a floral rose design, cream spine and spine edges with gilt titles, spine marks from dust and handling, foxing on the end papers, old signature inside, fourth… Read more about this item

BiblioLife, 2009-06-04. Hardcover. Used:Good.

BiblioLife, 2009-06-04. Hardcover. Used:Good.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007-10-02. Paperback. Used:Good.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007-10-02. Paperback. Good.

BiblioLife, 2009-06-04. Paperback. Used:Good.

BiblioLife, 2009-06-04. Paperback. Used:Good.

Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1894. Decorative Cloth . G to Vg. Decorated By Walter Crane. Bound in olive green cloth with floral decoration of the boards in dark green, brown, beige and white, colour patterned endpapers, the verses are arranged under 5 headings, "The Old Garden", "Nature", "Love Songs", "Poems of Life", and "Verses for Children", Illuminated title… Read more about this item

Hardback. New.

Hardback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

New.

New.

New.