The Book

The Old Garden and Other Verses
Margaret Wade Campbell Deland (1857–1945)
Walter Crane (1845-1915), Illustrator
London: Osgood, 1893.
McIlvaine & Co. First edition.
Margaret Deland (1857-1945), Allegheny, Pa.; novelist, poet, and short story writer. Deland is best known her novel John Ward, Preacher and 'Old Chester" tales. Around the 1880's Deland started writing verse for a greeting card company. Soon after her poems were appearing in Harper's Magazine. In 1886 a collection of these works were first published as "The Old Garden". Beautifully illustrated and decorated by English illustrator Walter Crane in a 1893 version. Chapters of: The Old Garden; Nature; Love Songs; Poems of Life; Verses for Children. Decorative type with each page ornately illustrated to fit the verse, all in color. Decorated color title page. Folded paper in the Japanese style.