THE SECRET GARDEN Illustrated by Charles Robinson

BURNETT, Frances Hodgson
Published by William Heinemann in London 1911
SKU: 59863
£2,000.00
FIRST UK EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION. 8vo. green cloth hardback with decorative gilt to spine and gilt title and vignette illustration to upper board. Top edge green. Illustrated endpapers. vii, 306pp. plus 6pp. Advertisements at end. Illustrated by Charles Robinson with 8 tissue-guarded colour plates and decorative title page, printed in red and black with vignette illustration. Ink gift inscription, dated 1911, to half title. Occasional light foxing, heavy to prelims and foredge. Front inner hinge slightly stretched. Small closed tear to endpaper of rear inner hinge. Light wear to top and base of spine and light rubbing to spine edges and corners. A VERY GOOD COPY.