A Child’s Garden of Verses Collection

My Ship and I - 1997

Edition of 500

Retail Price $695

Arthur: Porcelain/Wood 14"

Pylon: 4�" x 2�," rope and wood

Robert Louis Stevenson's, "My Ship and I", from A Child's Garden of Verses, recalls the universal dream of children to go a-sailing beyond the confines of their world. This 14" tall, fully articulated boy sits atop a rope twined pylon, dreaming of sailing ships and exotic places. He holds his varnished, hand-carved oak ship with its jaunty flag and canvas sails.

Picture Books in Winter - 1997

Edition of 500

Retail Price $695

Cecily: Porcelain/Wood 14"

Summer fading,

winter comes -

Frosty mornings,

tinglings thumbs,

Window robins,

winter rooks,

And the picture story books.

So begins Robert Louis Stevenson's beloved poems, "Picture Books in Winter", from A Child's Garden of Verses. She loves nothing better than to curl up with a picture storybook on a blustery afternoon in winter. Picture Books in Winter is a new size for Lawtons - a 14" fully articulated doll with a porcelain head and hands on a spring-jointed wooden body. Her picture book, published and hand-bound at Lawtons, features excerpts from A Child's Garden of Verses, with original artwork.

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