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."