Another Book of Verses for Children. Edited by E.V. Lucas With Colour Frontispiece & Title-Page, and Black & White Illustations by F. D. Bedford. London: Wells, Gardner, (1907). Pp, 431. A fine clean copy in fully decorated cream boards and illustrated endpapers. Ideal gift edition.

The illustrator Francis Donkin Bedford better known for illustrating the first edition of ‘Peter Pan & Wendy.’ The poets in this collection include Robert Louis Stevenson, William Blake, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, Charles & Mary Lamb, Tennyson, Longfellow, Ewing, William Cowper, Charles Kingsley and many others.