Q: Hi there,
Looking at your website, I was able to find a similar book cover – but not quite the same linen print. This one that has been in the family since 1911 (inscribed as a gift)

Can you tell me a bit more about the book? Is it part of series 57? sw-1 seems to be the best match. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

A: You are right. This book is part of the fifteen book Boys and Girls Classics Series.

This series was published between 1908 and 1926. The books mostly used the same internal text as well as the title pages from the earlier Young People’s Library books. Your book as well as the others of this series originally came within a labeled floral decorated box (shown here).

A number of different linen cover patterns have been seen. They are shown on the series page. I have arbitrarily numbered them -yours is “Swatch 1”. I believe it is the most common of the various covers. It was published from 1908 until the early teens.