The Secret Garden. Illustrated by Charles Robinson. London; Heinemann, 1911. First Edition. Publishers green cloth boards, title & line drawing in gilt to upper cover, spine richly decorated in floral gilt motifs. Light shelf-wear to covers, otherwise a nice bright copy.

Illustrated with eight plates in colour, each with a titled tissue-guards.

The Secret Garden was first serialized, starting in autumn 1910, in The American Magazine, a publication aimed at adults.

First published in book-form in the summer of 1911 by Frederick A. Stokes in New York and simultaneously by Heinemann in London, with illustrations by Charles Robinson. 

Set in England, it is one of Burnett’s most popular novels and seen as a classic of English children’s literature. Several stage and film adaptations have been made.