A Child's Garden of Verses. Illustrated by Charles Robinson.

Bookseller Notes

The flyleaf is inscribed: 'to Antony[sic] Eden. Xmas 1906.' Above this is the likely contemporary note, presumably in the recipient's hand, recording it as a gift 'From Nancy Cunard'; Eden's armorial bookplate is on the facing pastedown. The future Prime Minister was then nine years old, whilst Cunard - poet, printer and political activist to be - was ten; both were from influential aristocratic families and evidently acquainted from an early age. Harold Nicolson's diaries record the attempts of Lady Cunard, Nancy's mother, to exert her influence on Eden during the latter's political career.