[Rarebooks] Missing RLS Book

[Pia Oliver]

This book has gone missing from us :'( :

[Forgery] STEVENSON, Robert Louis. A Child's Garden of Verses. 
London: Longmans, Green, 1885. 12mo, rebound in full blue crushed 
morocco decorated in gilt, spine with raised bands and gilt 
decorations and lettering, inner gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, 
top edges gilt by Bayntun, in half morocco slipcase. Lower portion of 
spine leather split over hinge, lower edges a little rubbed, else 
fine. First edition.

The title page bears the signature "R. L. Stevenson" and there are 
fifteen charming and accomplished ink illustrations in the margins 
throughout the book. Unfortunately, neither the signature nor the 
drawings are in the hand of "our" Robert Louis Stevenson. An overlay 
of a copy of this signature and that of RLS's from our R.L. Stevenson 
catalogue item # 212 (STEVENSON, Robert Louis. Across the Plains with 
Other Memories and Essays. London: Chatto & Windus, 1892)  match 
exactly, leading us to believe they are both the work of Eugene 
Field, the younger.

  #12798

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