Lullaby-Land. Songs of Childhood. Selected by Kenneth Grahame [...] and Illustrated by Charles Robinson.

(Robinson.) FIELD (Eugene) & Charles Robinson (Illustrator)

Publication details: John Lane, The Bodley Head, n.d. [circa1898,]

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With an original drawing by Charles Robinson to the flyleaf, within his inscription: 'To Norman Forbes Robertson, with best regards [Illustration] from Charles Robinson'. The recipient was the brother of Johnston Forbes Robertson, and like him an actor - he was also a leading society figure, and friends with Oscar Wilde, Ellen Terry, Henry Irving, et al.Early work by Robinson, in a similar style to his work on Stevenson's 'A Child's Garden of Verses'.

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FIRST EDITION, illustrations by Robinson throughout, some 200 of them, including frontispiece and title-page design (tissue-guarded), Publisher's list at rear also illustrated (including Robinson), pp. 229, [2], [1, ad], 12 [List], crown 8vo, original green cloth, lettered in gilt to backstrip and upper board with Robinson designs stamped in gilt to both, his vignette to lower board also, backstrip faded with spine slightly cocked, some light soiling to cloth, a.e.g., free endpapers gently browned, good

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