THE SECRET GARDEN

First UK edition in book form and the first Charles Robinson illustrated edition, first printing. Publisher's original green cloth with titles and illustrations in gilt to the upper board and spine. Top edge green. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrated with 8 beautiful full page colour plates by Charles Robinson complete with captioned tissue guards, as well as a black and white design to the title page and a vignette to the half title. A lovely near fine copy, the binding square and firm with just minor rubbing to the extremities, the cloth and gilt bright and fresh. The contents, with a previous owner's inscription to the half title are otherwise clean throughout. All of the plates and tissue guards remain in fine condition. The green top edge is bright and without fading. A lovely example in entirely original condition, scarce thus.

The Secret Garden was originally serialised in The American Magazine, beginning in Autumn 1910; the first edition in book form was first published simultaneously in the summer of 1911 by Frederick A. Stokes in New York (with illustrations by M. B. Kork) and by William Heinemann in London (with illustrations by Charles Robinson).