Q: I recently came into possession of an old book entitled Heroes and Hero Worship by Thomas Carlyle. It doesn’t have a copyright date and is in pretty poor shape as I don’t think it was well taken care of. Could you please enlighten me as to when it may have been published?

A: This book is part of the Vademecum Series and was published in the 1909-1912 timeframe. All of the titles within this series are reprints.

It originally came in a labeled box. A representative box is shown below.