B74 MILLIGAN’S ARK [1971]

[all flush left of center:] MILLIGAN’S | ARK | Edited by Spike Milligan and Jack Hobbs | Foreword by HRH. The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh | KG, PC, KT, GMBE FRS. | Margaret and Jack Hobbs | [drawing of an elephant]

Collation: [1]–[7]8, 56 leaves.

p.[1] Milligan’s Ark; p.[2] edition, copyright, designer’s, publisher’s, printer’s and distributor’s notices; p.[3] title-page; p.[4] Acknowledgements; pp.5–7 text and pictures; pp.8 [9] list of contributors; p. [10] blank]; p.[11] letter from The Prince Philip; p.[12] blank; p. 13 text; pp.14-[15] TO ALL WILDLIFE; pp.16–111[112] text and pictures, with pp.[31, 36, 37, 44, 56, 65, 90, 91] being unnumbered.

25.6 × 20.1 cm. Bulk: 0.7/1.2 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. White wove endpapers; pastedown white; inner sides of free endpapers printed with bookworm and hole, front disappearing down hole, rear emerging. Bound in boards covered with paper printed in blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, purple and black, pictorially. Down spine in white: MILLIGAN’S ARK/ HOBBS

Price: £1.25. Number of copies undetermined. Published in November 1971 in white dust-jacket printed pictorially as the covers.

Note: Graves’s contribution is a drawing of a camelopard (p.99).