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Illustrated Editions - A Child's Garden of Verses
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Illustrated Editions - A Child's Garden of Verses
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illustrator |
title |
publisher |
date |
illlustr. |
notes |
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*** |
Robert Louis Stevenson Reader. |
NY: Scribner’s. |
1906 |
ills. b&w and col freely combined with the text with some full-page plates |
A selection from CGV and texts about RLS's childhood. Ed. Catherine T Bryce. Although the illustrator is anonymous is clearly someone of artistic talent. The content of the book can be seen at http://www.archive.org/stream/robertlouisstev00stevgoog |
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Daisies From a Child's |
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1898 |
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*** |
A Child's |
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1948 |
ill. (part col) |
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Banks, Eulalie |
A Child's |
NY: Platt & Munk |
[1929] |
4 cp, b&w ld on every p |
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Bennett, Juanita C. |
A Child's |
Racine, Wisc.: Whitman Publishing Co. / New York: Grosset & Dunlap |
1932 |
Cps facing each p and col pics on most text pages too. |
60 pp.; 1938 edition by Grosset & Dunlap with these illustrations has only 24 pp., so is probably a selection |
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Boswell, Hilda |
A Child's |
London: Collins. |
n.d. or 1963 |
Colour pictures (c. 200) on every page mixed with text (poss first ill. full-colour ed. of CGV) |
120 (or 124) pp. 280 mm.. |
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Brill, George Reiter |
A Child’s Garden of Verses |
NY: Barse and Hopkin. |
1915 c. |
6 cp |
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Burd, C[lare] M. |
A Child's Garden of Verses |
Akron (Ohio):Saalfield Publishing Company |
1930 |
cp; 1930 ed reported with cover illustration of three children heaping autumn leaves; 1937 ed reported with dec covers (four children marching on a garden path, same back and front) |
pages are thick card, h 260 mm |
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Burns, Eloise |
A Child's Garden of Verses |
Chicago: M.A. Donohue |
1930 |
6 cp & num b&w ill. |
pict. covers (front, boy & girl opening garden gate; back, young girl in a swing). An edition of CGV illustrated by Eloise Burns Wilkin is listed as Little Golden Book , 493 (1957); it is not clear if this is a reissue or a totally new edition with new illustrations. The cover of the 1957 edition shows a chubby girl at a garden gate, a more typical Wilkins later style. |
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Comstock, Frances Bassett [1880-1922] and Enos B. Comstock [1879-1945] (photos) |
A Child's Garden of Verses |
New York: McLoughlin Brothers |
1909 |
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husband and wife. |
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Corvino, Lucy |
Robert Louis Stevenson. |
NY: Sterling (Poetry for Young People Series). |
2000 |
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Schoonmaker, Frances (ed.). A collection of 32 poems, mostly from A Child’s Garden |
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Dale, Penny |
My Shadow |
Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press |
1999 |
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From Child’s Garden |
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Dobkin, Alexander |
A Child’s Garden of Verses |
Cleveland & NY: World Publishing Company |
1946 |
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Duvoisin, Roger |
A Child’s Garden of Verses |
NY: The Heritage Press (Limited Editions Club) |
1944 |
B&w and cp |
Introduction by William Rose Benet |
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Eulalie |
A Child’s Garden of Verses |
NY: The Platt & Munk Co. |
1929 |
cp, ld |
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Felix, Monique |
My Shadow |
Mankato: Creative Editions. |
2002 |
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From Child’s Garden |
Fernandes, Kim |
The Little Land |
Toronto, ON: Kids Can Press |
2002 |
the 3-D style illustrations have been produced by "Fimo" |
poem from A Child's Garden of Verses |
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Frissell, Toni (1907-88) |
A Child’s Garden of Verses |
NY: U.S.Camera Publishing Corp. |
1944 |
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Photographic illustrations |
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Good, Paula Rees |
A Child’s Garden of Verses. |
Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing.Mckay |
1931 |
Silhouette-style illustrations. |
91 pp. |
Goode, Diane |
A Child's Garden of Verses. |
NY: William Morrow |
1998 |
More than seventy full-color and black-and-white images |
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Green, Donna |
Leaves from A Chid's Garden of Verses |
Cohasset, MA : Vermilion, 1996 |
1996 |
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Hardcover, ISBN: 1883746116; published 2002 |
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Grover, Max |
Where Go the Boats?: Play-Poems of Robert Louis Stevenson. |
***: Harcourt/Browndeer |
1998 |
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4 poems form A Child’s Garden of Verses |
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Gyo, Fujikawa (1908-98) |
A Child's Garden of Verses. |
New Yor: Grosset & Dunlap |
1957 |
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Also New York: Sterling (2007) |
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Hallock, Ruth Mary |
A Child’s Garden of Verses |
Chicago: *** |
1919 |
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Col. Pl. |
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Hassall, Joan [1906-1988] |
A Child's Garden of Verses |
Edinburgh: Hopetown Press. |
1947 |
wood engravings |
Repr. 1948, 1950. Reset London: Blackie, 1958; repr. 1959, 1961, 1964, 1965, 1971, 1974,1975, 1986. Also London: Penguin, 1992. The illustrations in the 1975 Blackie printing (and perhaps others) have a slightly 'over-inked' appearance (compare p. 54 and title page): perhaps the Hopetown Press editions are better. |
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Horejs, Milada |
My Shadow |
Fredericton, N.B.: Brunswick Press |
1953 |
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From Child’s Garden |
Kirk, Daniel |
Block City |
Simon & Schuster |
2005 |
double-page spreads |
poem from A Child's Garden of Verses |
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Kirk, Maria L. |
A Child’s Garden of Verses. |
Philadelphia: Lippincott. |
1919 |
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199 pp. |
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Lang, Glenna |
My Shadow. |
Boston, MA: David R. Godine. |
1989 |
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From Child’s Garden |
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Le Mair, Henrietta Willebeek |
A Child's Garden of Verses |
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see under: various ill. |
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Le Mair, Henrietta Willebeek |
A Child's Garden of Verses |
Philadelphia: David McKay |
1926 |
12 cp |
Repr. L: Harrap, 1931; L/NY: Warne, 1999 |
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Mars, E[thel] and M[aud]H[unt] Squire |
A Child’s Garden of Verses |
L/NY: R. H. Russell |
1900 |
12 cp, 22 b&w plates, illustrated page borders, many b&w ills. throughout |
29.5 cm, 115 p. Also Chicago, New York: Rand McNally, 1902. 94 p. (omits last 3 sections). On-line at http://www.childrensbooksonline.org/child_garden_verses/index.htm. |
Morstad, Julie |
The Swing |
Vancouver, Canada: Simple Read Books |
2012 |
16-page boardbook, with different children and swings for each line of the poem |
from A Child’s Garden of Verses |
Mulazzani, Simona |
Nella Terra dei sogni [A Childʼs Garden of Verses] |
Milano: Rizzoli |
2012 |
A selection of twelve CGV pieces. including, ʻThe Land of Counterpaneʼ. William |
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Noé, Eva |
A Child's Garden of Verses |
NY: J. H. Sears. |
1927 (also listed as '[n.d. (1925])' |
243 pp., 25 cm. |
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Olver, Kate Elizabeth [1881-1960] |
A Child's Garden of Verses |
London: Collins |
1927 (also listed as '[n.d. (1925])' |
7 full-page col. illustrations by Kate Elizabeth Olver, numerous b/w text ills. (some full-page); or.cl.; decorated & gilt, pictorial endpapers |
With an Introduction by Laurence Alma Tadema |
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O'Reilly, Dorothy |
A Child's Garden of Verses |
Chicago: Flanagan |
1921 |
Red, white and black illustrations throughout the book |
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Pearson, Tracy Campbell |
The Moon [from Child’s G of V] |
NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux |
2006 |
Plates from watercolours |
Pearson’s watercolours turn Stevenson’s poem into a story of a father and his young son taking a late-night boat trip. |
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Pease, Bessie Collins [1876–1960] |
A Child’s Garden of Verses |
NY: Dodge.. |
1905 |
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141 pp. 21 cm. Pease belongs to the ‘Golden Age’ American school of Howard Pyle and Bessie Wilcox Smith. |
Rand, Ted |
My Shadow |
NY: G.P.Putnam. |
1990 |
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From Child’s Garden |
Rasmussen, Marcel [1913-1964] |
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Den saelsomme Beretning om Dr Jekyll og Edward Hyde) |
Copenhagen: Rosenkilde og Baggers Forlag |
1946 |
b&w drawings |
R also designed the dustjacket |
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Reiner, Imre |
Child’s Garden of Verses |
Vienna: Herbert Reichner |
1935 |
6 woodcuts |
Reiner was also the designer of the typography |
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Robinson, Charles Heath (1870-1937) |
A Child's Garden of Verses |
NY/L: Scribner's/John Lane-Bodley Head |
1895/1896 |
ld |
1992 : L: David Campbell Publishers Ltd; NY, Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf, Everyman's Library Children's Classics; 199*: Edinburgh: Mainstream ('Facsimile Edition', hb, a.e.g.). First illustrated edition of the work. Also published in a large-paper limited edition. See also: various illustrators |
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Russell, Dorothy E. |
A Child’s Garden of Verses. |
Philadelphia, Chicago [etc.]: John C. Winston. |
1928 |
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Introduction and notes by Blanche E. Weekes. |
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Scott, Janet Laura |
Child’s Garden of Verses |
Racine, WI : Whitman Publishing |
1947 |
b&w and colour ill. |
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Sheldon, Myrtle |
A Child's Garden of Verses |
***: M.A. Donohue and Company |
1916 |
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Smith, Jessie Willcox |
A Child's Garden of Verses |
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons L: Longmans, Green & Co. |
1905 |
12 cp, pict. ep, onlaid pict. label |
The Longman edition printed at De Vinne Press, N.Y. NY: Children's Classics/Crown Publishers (1995) incl. 8 plates See also: various illustrators |
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Smithson, Helen |
A Child's Garden of Verses |
L: Folio Society |
1998 |
cp |
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Sowerby, Millicent |
A Child's Garden of Verses |
L: Chatto & Windus |
1908 |
12 cp, ill ep |
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Spooner, M[innie] Dibdin |
A Child's Garden of Verses |
L: *** |
1908 |
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Storer, Florence Edith |
A Child's Garden of Verses |
NY: Scribner's |
1909 |
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Storer, Florence Edith |
A Child's Garden of Verses |
NY: Scribner’s |
1909 |
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Repr. NY: Scribner’s 1924. |
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Tarrant, Margaret |
Songs with Music from A Child's Garden of Verses |
L: T.C. & E.C. Jack |
[?1918] |
cd, b&wd |
12 songs; music by Rev. Thomas Crawford |
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Tudor, Tasha (1915 - 2008) |
A Child's |
NY: |
1947 |
18 cp [other report: 15; another: 4 colour divisional title pp & 15 cp] & many small b&w ill. |
Also 1981. |
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various illustrators |
A Child's |
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1989 |
'over 100 ill.' (40 cp); 128 p.
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incl Jessie Willcox Smith, Henrietta Willebeek Le Mair, & Charles Robinson |
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Weage, Josephine Wheeler |
A Child’s Garden of Verses. |
Chicago: Whitman Publishing Co. |
1917 |
col plates |
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Weihs, Erika |
A Child's |
**: Samuel Lowe Company |
1945 |
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“Sturdibilt Book” |
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Wildsmith, Brian |
A Child's |
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1966 |
Colour illustrations integrated with text |
New edition, Long Island City (NY): Star Bright Books, 2008. |
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Wilkinson, |
A Child's |
L: |
1910 |
10 cp |
limited edition |
Wolff, Ashley |
Block City |
NY: Dutton Juvenile |
1988 |
double-page spreads |
poem from A Chikd's Garden of Verses |
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Yoshida Midori |
A Child's |
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1998 |
col and b&w brush drawings |
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