Cover & spine edges rubbed with some surface marks. Blue pencil marks on flyleaf. Retains original tissue key to the illustration on the front cover. Several tipped-in colour plates. Contributions from many well known authors of the time, world-wide, including Rudyard Kipling, John Masefield, Nellie Melba, Baden-Powell, Baroness Orczy, G K Chesterton & Rabindranath Tagore. No date, but on inside back cover is a date in pencil 23/11/23, and it is known there was a 1923 edition of this book.