A Child's Garden of Verses

On accepted first-issue copies, the word 'of' in the spine title is set in smaller type than the rest of the lettering, and the list of the author's other works at the front makes no mention of a 'Second Series.' Dealers disagree on whether a curved-tail or a '7'-shaped apostrophe in 'Child's' on the spine marks the true first state, so that detail alone should not be used to date a copy