Prose, verse, and illustrations
Records of the 1925 publications contain some and link much more information about the contents and contributors.
- "The Flying Carpet was an anthology of original short stories, original poems, and original illustrations" by prominent children's writers and illustrators.
--Wikipedia: "Doctor Dolittle Meets a Londoner in Paris" (one of the short stories)
- Asquith "established a standard for ghost-story Anthologies that few have bettered. CA applied the same exacting standards to her anthologies for children, which contain many magical fantasies."
--SFE: Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), biog. entry by MA (Mike Ashley?)
- Perhaps the first Asquith anthology.
The encyclopedia article cited above provides a list of works including 8 anthologies "as editor for children" published 1925 to 1932 and 1950 (this is the first, and the only in ISFDB as of 2017-04-06). The list may be selected for genre as well as the child audience. There may be no overlap of the "ghost-story Anthologies" and those for children.
Known speculative fiction (prose) contents alone listed below.
Contents (3 in sequence with page numbers) copied 2016-12-30 from ISFDB record of 1st US ed. (1925) (in turn, viewed online) because the two eds. have identical reported page-counts and lists of contents.
Price from review column Manchester Guardian 1925-12-02 pIX "Christmas Books: Mainly for Children" (about 25); this one as "designed by Cynthia Asquith".
Otherwise not found 2017-04-06 in automated search of UK newspapers 1925.
OCLC:
-- "200 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. (4 col.) ; 26 cm." (US ed. shows 4 plates color, may be mounted)
-- Contents, list of 34 by 24 writers
-- "Designed [and edited] by Cynthia Asquith"
-- Summary and Abstract identically state: "An anthology of prose and verse for children, with illustrations by Mabel Lucie, Attwell [sic], [14 others]."
OCLC list of illustrators is alphabetical.
OCLC list of Contents groups multiple titles by writer together, with writers in sequence of their first appearances in the book (from comparison with the US ed. table of contents, viewed online).
