Quarto. 164pp. With a chromolithograph frontispiece, seven further chromolithograph plates, facsimile handwriting samples of Princess Mary and Maurice Maeterlinck, numerous in-text illustrations, and one in-text sheet of music. Original publisher's blue cloth boards, lettered in blind to spine and upper board, pictorial paper label pasted to upper board. With original pictorial paper dust-wrapper. Lightly rubbed and marked, with heavy chipping and browning to dust-wrapper, and losses to upper wrapper, obscuring text. Light scuffing, spotting and browning to leaves.

The first edition of an illustrated educational compilation of inspirational excerpts, stories, and sheet music for the use of Girl Guides, co-edited by Girl Guide leader Ann Kindersley (1899-1973) alongside her partner, fellow Guiding executive Lady Helen Whitaker (1890-1929).