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Henry
Altemus
published
numerous
series,
mostly
with
beautifully
decorated
covers,
which were
completely
composed
of
reprints
of
religious
stories,
poetry,
moralistic
tales,
adventures
and
fiction
novels.
Authors
like
Nathaniel
Hawthorne,
Thoreau,
Edgar
Allan Poe,
Emerson,
Drummond
and the
like were
well
represented.
For the
purpose of
this
discussion
these
series
will be
called
Publisher’s
Reprint
Series or
Reprint
Series.
In 1892
the first
of the
reprint
series
were
published
(The
Altemus
Library).
Although
as the
years went
on, the
different
series
could
easily be
distinguished
from each
other by
their
differently
decorated
covers,
early on
this was
not
necessarily
the case.
In fact
between
1894 and
1896 a
number of
the series
used the
exact same
books. The
books and
their
series
could only
be
differentiated
from each
other by
the boxes
they came
in. The
boxes has
paste-on
labels
that noted
the series
name as
well as
the book
titles and
authors.
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