The Child’s Book of Verse. Illustrated by Margaret W. Tarrant. London: Ward, Lock, (1958). The Sunshine Series. Small folio. A very good copy in pictorial dust jacket.

Illustrated by Margaret W. Tarrant with sixteen enchanting colour plates.

English illustrator, and children’s author, Margaret Tarrant specializing in depictions of fairy-like children and religious subjects. Her pretty, naturalistic illustrations were widely known and very popular, particularly in the 1920s and 1930s when she was very prolific and famous.