Empire Annual for Girls [1914]

384pp. [1914 or possibly 1915] Tissue-guarded Colour plate frontis plus six further colour plate illustrations and sixteen black and white plate illustrations. Illustrated cloth boards (mottled, rubbed at edges, rippled around spine), decorated with image of girl on horseback jumping a fence, reminiscent of Jorrocks! Previous owner's inscription, dated 1915, in fly leaf. Includes chapter on the Defence of Lawn Tennis for Girls by Mrs Lambert Chambers, credited as the Ladies Wimbledon Champion of 1910, 1911 and 1913 (hence dating of volume to 1914). A collection of stories and articles for girls such as the Improving of Mrs Cann by Leslie Keith, To Girls Beginning Golf by Gladys R Bastin, A Girl in the Trenches (or, A word to girls who wish they were men) by William Canton and Claude Hayes-Fool, a detective story by Madge Bishop (41 in total).