A very RARE and beautiful children book!!! A sixth edition of this popular collection of children's poems, illustrated with colour plates by Margaret Tarrant. Containing verses by such writers as Robert Louis Stevenson, E. Nesbig, Walter de la Mare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Norman Gale, Robert Browning, Robert Burns, William Shakespeare and Lewis Carroll. Bound in the publisher's original decorative cloth.Illustrated with forty-eight colour plates by Margaret Tarrant. Book in good condition. Inside illustrations in very good condition, very light scattered foxing especially around margins. Beautiful illustrated endpapers. Externally light wear around edges and corners, some shelfwear, wear head and tail-see photos as part of description. Light stains on boards-see photos as part of description. Rarity.