Today I am adding a couple of pictures of early Format 3 Wee Books for Wee Folks.

The Format 3 books in this series have the familiar book appropriate appliqué on the front cover. Although the general format was unchanged between 1917 and 1933, there are differences which make it easy to date these books.

An example is shown here. Books printed between 1917 and 1920 have yellow or red lettering on the cover, rather than more commonly found black lettering. Note this book has the yellow letters and plain endpapers. The endpapers were plain until 1921.

Also note the dust jacket here only lists books up to The Night Before Christmas which was published in 1918.

Look at the other book shown here. It also has plain endpapers. The jacket lists books published in 1920. Since the lettering is black but the endpapers are still plain. This book was published in 1921.

1918-1919 book

1921 Book