Lullaby-Land.

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

Lullaby-Land.

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

Description: 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

Publication Details: John Lane, The Bodley Head, n.d. [circa 1898]

Notes: 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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Price: £1,000

Subject: Modern Illustrated

Published Date: 1898]

Stock Number: 75852

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