Peacock Pie: a book of rhymes / by Walter De La Mare; with embellishments by C. Lovat Fraser

Walter de la Mare

RA Collection: Book

Record number

15/1129

Author

Imprint

London; Bombay; Sydney: Constable & Company Ltd., [1924]

Physical Description

ix, 127, [1] pages ; col. front., col. plates. ; 26 cm.

General Note

Illustrated with pen and ink drawings reproduced as colour line blocks printed on coated paper.
The printer is named at the foot of page [128]: "Printed in Great Britain at The Mayflower Press, Plymouth. William Brendon & Son., Ltd."
Publication date of 1924 taken from the Dedication page. In the dedication the author states that Claud Lovat Fraser made the illustrations, (or `embellishments'), in 1912; the rhymes themselves were first printed in 1913. This is the first time that they appear together in print.

Contents

Up and down -- Boys and girls -- Three queer tales -- Place and people -- Beasts -- Witches and fairies -- Earth and air -- Songs.

Provenance

The front pastedown carries the engraved bookplate of Edward Mason Hutchinson, over which is pasted the engraved bookplate of Edward and Cicely Hutchinson.

Binding Note

Pictorial dust-jacket. Blue cloth binding with gilt peacock design on upper board. Lettered in gilt on spine: "Peackock Pie. A book of rhymes by Walter de la Mare with embellishments by C. Lovat Fraser. Constable."

Subject

Illustrated books
Children's poems

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