B10 COLLINS’ CHILDREN’S ANNUAL [1926]

[first 4 11. in red:] COLLINS’ | CHILDREN’S ANNUAL | [to right:] TWELFTH YEAR | OF ISSUE | [14 1l. to left in cream box, mainly rectangular:] [in red:] AUTHORS | ROBERT | GRAVES | BARRY | PAIN | KATHARINE | TYNAN | [in red:] ARTISTS WINIFRED | ACKROYD | ANNE | ANDERSON | DOROTHY | REES | [in centre and to right of cream box is red, yellow and blue picture of tot fishing for golliwog doll] | [publisher’s emblem] | LONDON & GLASGOW | COLLINS’ CLEAR-TYPE PRESS

Collation: π2 [A]4 B–P6, 90 leaves.

p.[1] book-plate page; p.[2] coloured frontispiece; p.[3] title-page; p.[4] cut of caravan; pp.5–10 lists of contents; pp.11–183 [184] text, with pp.[15,19, 22, 25, 31, 44, 49, 55, 62, 67, 71, 74, 79, 86, 91, 98, 103, 109, 110, 115, 122, 127, 134, 139, 146, 151, 158, 163, 170, 184] unnumbered and pp.[27/28] and [37/38] being included in the pagination, though plates (first blank recto, second verso) not included in collation.

27.3 × 21.3 cm. Bulk: 3.5/4.3 cm. Heavy white wove paper; all edges trimmed. White wove endpapers; inner sides printed in pink and grey with picture of a boy and girl swinging; first and fourth sides blank. Bound in cream boards; back blank; front has pasted on a picture of boy and girl playing and in gold at top: COLLINS’ | CHILDREN’S ANNUAL; light tan cloth spine printed in blue: Collins’ | Childrens’ Annual | [rectangular box with picture of two girls and a boy] | [publisher’s emblem] | COLLINS

Price: 5s. Number of copies unknown. Published in August 1926.

Note: Graves’s contribution is ‘The Story Teller’ (p.11) and ‘The Penny Fiddle’ (p.12). A revised version of ‘The Story Teller’ was published as ‘Jock o’Binnorie’ in C665. A revised version of ‘The Penny Fiddle’ was published in A92a.

Reference: Collins 1926-1927.