B12.1 TOT AND TIM ANNUAL [1927]

TOT AND TIM | ANNUAL | [at left, a drawing, in colour of two children:] | [at right, within rectangle with a curved top and flared bottom, all with background colour of pale yellow:] [in red, curved type]: AUTHORS | [in black:] ROBERT | GRAVES | BARBARA E. | TODD | MARJORY | ROYCE | [in red:] ARTISTS | [in black:] DOROTHY | REES | WINIFRED | M. ACKROYD | AUSTIN | MOLLOY | [below]: EIGHTH YEAR | OF ISSUE | LONDON [publisher's emblem] GLASGOW | COLLINS' CLEAR-TYPE PRESS

p. [1] book-plate page; p. [2] coloured frontispiece; p. [3] title-page; p. [4] [drawing of girl holding a dove]; p. 5-10 contents; pp. 11-19 text; p. [20] illustration; pp. 21-28 text; p. [29] illustration; pp. 30-35 text; p. [36] illustration; pp. 37-44 text; p. [45] illustration; p. 46 text; p. [47] illustration]; pp. 48-51 text; p. [52] illustration; pp. 53-60 text; p. [61] illustration; pp. 62-67 text; p. [68] illustration; pp. 69-76 text; p. [77] illustration; pp. 78-83; p. [84] illustration; pp. 85-92; p. [93] illustration; pp. 94-99 text; p. [100] illustration; pp. 101-108 text; p. [109] illustration; pp. 110-115 text; p. [116] illustration; pp. 117-124; p. [125] illustration; pp. 126-130 text; p. [131] - [132] illustrations; pp. 133-138 [139]

25.4 × 19.6 cm. Bulk: 2.7/3.5 cm. Heavy white wove paper; all edges trimmed. White wove endpapers. Bound in pale yellow paper-covered boards; back blank; front has picture in multiple colours of two girls playing badminton. At top: [two lines in red:] Tot and Tim | Annual | [in black, large and small capitals:] STORIES AND VERSES BY | Robert Graves | Marjory Royce | Katherine Tynan | [within a yellow-orange square with a green border:] Joyce | Mercer; at bottom of front cover: a black band. Spine printed entirely in blue [from top to bottom]: Tot | and | Tim | Annual | [all within a blue rectangle:] [a drawing of a girl with doll, golliwog doll and mice | [publisher's emblem] | COLLINS

Price: 3s.6d. Published September 1927. Probably issued without dust-jacket.

Notes: Graves's contribution is the poem 'The Two Farmers' (p. 11).

The cover illustration described above is pictured in the 1927 Collins’ Clear-Type Press catalogue, p. 17.

There is another binding style of this book of cream paper-covered boards; back blank; front, at top [two lines in brown]: TOT and TIM | ANNUAL | [a brown rectangular single-rule box inset with colour illustration showing a boy and girl atop a grassy mound with a rabbit and teddy bear at foot] | [brown band]; spine as above except printed in brown.

Reference: Collins 1927.