"A Child's Garden of Verses" by Robert Louis Stevenson with one hundred illustrations by Frances Brundage, Companion Edition together with "The Little Lame Prince" by Miss Mulock, also illustrated by Frances Brundage, published by The Saalfield Publishing Company, Akron, Ohio, 1924.

Hard boards, original cloth with paper illustration on the front board [heavy wear and spine soiling: see photos]]; 6.1/2" x 9"; color frontispiece has a bent corner [see photo]; the endpapers are creased at the hinges, unpaginated, c. 350 pages, 100++ line illustrations, some soiling and wear, good condition.

"A Child's Garden of Verses" is a collection of children's poems by Robert Louis Stevenson. Some of his best poems are often featured in other collections that have been published through the decades. Even if you've never "read" this one in its entirety, chances are you'll be familiar with a handful of these poems. For example, "My Shadow," and "The Swing."

"The Little Lame Prince" is an old time story about a prince who is made lame shortly after birth and is sent away to live locked up in a tower, but through the help of his Fairy God mother is able to use a flying carpet to escape his tower and experience life, is a wonderfully simple story with a powerful message , that all people have worth."

Frances Isabelle Lockwood Brundage (1854-1937) was an American illustrator best known for her depictions of attractive and endearing children on postcards, valentines, calendars, and other ephemera published by Raphael Tuck & Sons, Samuel Gabriel Company, and Saalfield Publishing. She received an education in art at an early age from her father, Rembrandt Lockwood. Her professional career in illustration began at seventeen when her father abandoned his family and she was forced to seek a livelihood.

In addition to ephemera, Brundage illustrated children's classics such as the novels of Louisa May Alcott, Johanna Spyri, and Robert Louis Stevenson, and traditional literary collections such as The Arabian Nights and the stories of King Arthur and Robin Hood. She was a prolific artist, and, in her late 60s, was producing as many as twenty books annually. Her work is highly collectible.

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