ed. Harry Golding — Verses for Children

London and Melbourne, Ward, Lock & Co. Limited. c1930. Cloth. A sixth edition of this popular collection of children's poems, illustrated with colour plates by Margaret Tarrant and complete with the scarce dust wrapper. Containing verses by such writers as Robert Louis Stevenson, E. Nesbig, Walter de la Mare, Samuel Taylor Coleeridge, Norman Gale, Robert Browning, Robert Burns, William Shakespeare and Lewis Carroll.Bound in the publisher's original decorative cloth.Illustrated with forty-eight colour plates by Margaret Tarrant, an English illustrator and children's author known for her illustrations for 'The Water Babies', Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Stories and 'Alice in Wonderland&apos.Collated, complete.Presented with the scarce dust wrapper.A sixth edition of this popular collection of children's verses. In the publisher's original full cloth binding with an unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, generally smart, with some wear to the head and tail of the spine and extremities. Dust wrapper is in two pieces, with loss to the head and tail of the spine and the extremities; spine is sunned. Gift inscription dated 1941 to the verso of the front blank. Internally, firmly bound. Pages have the odd spot. Very Good . Ill.: Margaret W. Tarrant. Very Good/Fair.