B12.2 COLLINS’ CUBS AND BROWNIES’ ANNUAL [1927]

[three lines in blue:] COLLINS’ | CUBS’ AND BROWNIES’ | ANNUAL | [illustration in multiple colours of child with bundle of twigs] | [in red:] STORIES AND VERSES BY | [remainder in blue:] George Surrey, Rose Fyleman, Arthur Lee Knight, | Ethel Talbot | [publisher’s emblem] | LONDON & GLASGOW | COLLINS’ CLEAR-TYPE PRESS

Collation: 66 leaves, including the frontispiece, but excluding the plates.

p. [1] TO CUBS AND BROWNIES (poem and illustration); p. [2] coloured frontispiece; p. [3] title-page; p. [4] illustration in black of two children and showing one holding a buttercup flower under the chin of the other; pp. 5-8 contents; pp. 9-131 [132] text and illustrations, with pp. [28, 37, 44, 53, 60, 63-65, 69, 76, 85, 92, 109, 113-114, 116] being unnumbered and with colour plates between pp. 22-23, 46-47, 80-81, 120-121.

23.2 × 17.2 cm. Bulk: 3.1/4.1 cm. Heavy white wove paper; top edges trimmed; front and bottom edges rough-trimmed. White wove endpapers. Bound in cream paper-covered boards with cream cloth spine; back blank; front has pasted on a picture in multiple colours of a cub and brownie running; at top: [3 lines in red:] Collins’ | Cubs’ and | Brownies’ | Annual; spine printed in blue: Collins’ | Cubs’ and | Brownies’ | Annual | [publisher’s emblem] | COLLINS

Price: 5s. Published September 1927. Probably issued without dust-jacket.

Note: Graves’s contribution is the poem ‘Mother’s Song in Winter’, p. 95.

Reference: Collins 1927.