You'll love this wonderful edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's beloved book of poetry. A best seller for years, this book has been published in numerous editions with many different illustrators. It was especially popular in the 1910s and 20s. This deluxe hardcover edition combines the art of some of the favorite illustrators from years past:

• Jessie Willcox Smith
• Eulalie
• E. Mars
• Clara M. Burd
  
• Willy Pogany
• Millicent Sowerby
• H. Willebeek Le Mair
• Bessie Collins Pease
• M. Dibdin Spooner
• Ruth Mary Hallock
• Margaret Tarrant
• Charles Robinson
• Myrtle Sheldon
• Florence Edith Storer
• Dorothy E. Russell
• Josephine Wheeler Weage
• George Reiter Brill
• Juanita C. Bennett
• Paula Rees Good
• Maria L. Kirk
  

As you can imagine from the number of illustrators, every page is illustrated. Over half of the illustrations are in full color and many are full page illustrations. In the back of the book there is a list of each illustration, its artist, and the date. This book is a delight for children just beginning their experience with these poems and a treasure for the collector who can enjoy the work of so many great children's book illustrators of the past in one volume. Also includes a mini-biography of the author, Robert Louis Stevenson in the back.

This is a hardcover book with a dust jacket published by Chronicle books of San Francisco in 1989. It's a pictorial hardcover: the book cover looks the same as the dust jacket. Illustrated endpapers. 4to (ca. 11 1/4" high). 121 pp. Compiled by Cooper Edens.

Very good condition. Solid binding. No edge wear or corner bumping. There is a small rough spot on the back of the dust jacket and an inscription dated 2005 on the front endpaper (partially covered by the dust jacket flap.) Otherwise it is like new.

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