Henry Altemus Company

 

Series 137 - One-Syllable Series

 
 
Series Name:
Publish Dates:
Topic:
One-Syllable Series
1899 - 1900
Children's stories
Series Number:
Volumes:
Formats:
137
12
4

 

Title: Author: Year: Illustrator:
1 Aesop's Fables Anonymous 1899  
2 Child Life of Christ Anonymous 1899  
3 Child's Story of the Bible Anonymous 1899  
4 Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Defoe, Daniel 1899  
5 Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress Bunyan, John 1899  
6 Swiss Family Robinson Anonymous 1899  
7 Gulliver's Travels Swift, Jonathan 1899  
8 Bible Stories for Little Children Anonymous 1900  
9 Child's Story of the Old Testament Anonymous 1900  
10 Child's Story of the New Testament Anonymous 1900  
11 Bible Stories for Little Children Anonymous 1899  
12 Story of Jesus Remy, Jean S. 1900  

 

Henry Altemus/Henry Altemus Company      Format: 1      Volumes: 1 - 8
Variously colored cloth with multicolored book appropriate picturing. Lettering is in silver gilt. Last year of this series included #1-12 books. Dust jacket matches the book. 7.5 x 5.5.

Henry Altemus Company      Format: 2      Volumes: 1-2, 4-7, 9-12
Cover is half vellum. Earlier books vellum is in colors (blue, green). The right half of the cover has a book appropriate multicolored pictorial picture. Dust jacket is brown uncoated matching the vellum pattern on the left with a blank right half. 7.5 x 5.5.

Henry Altemus Company      Format: 3      Volumes: 1-2, 4-7, 9-12
Variously colored cloth with a multicolored line drawn book appropriate picture. The cover is the same as the corresponding Format 1 book of the same title. Lettering is usually in red or black but never silver gilt. 7.5 x 5.5.

Henry Altemus Company      Format: 4      Volumes: 1-2, 4-7, 9-12
Cover has applique which has a book appropriate multicolored book appropriate pictorial picture. Title is above and series name below the applique. Dust jacket matches the cover. 7.5 x 5.5.

Series Notes:
1. The first 7 books were published by Henry Altemus initially in 1899. 8 books were published in 1900 - 1902. When Henry Altemus Company published the entire series in 1903, #3 was dropped. #9-12 were added. #8 became #11 and the illustration number was reduced from 80 to 41 (in that book).
2. Format 1's last year with the second spine used the last numbering system (1-12 with omissions). These books were published in 1903.
3. Altemus used early title pages for later books in this series. Such that books of formats 2 and 3 occasionally noted Henry Altemus not Henry Altemus Company at the base of their title page. Especially true with the Pilgrim's Progress books.
4. With the Exception of Gulliver's Travels all of the Format 2's books show the new 1900 copyright.
5. Most of the format 3 and 4 books have the later 1909 copyright.
6. Title #3 is the scarcest of all of the books in this series because it only appeared in format 1.
7. During the run of Format 3 books the price was changed from 50c to $1.00. This can be seen on the dust jacket reverse.
8. The books of the four formats have the same number of illustrations. (one exception-see above)
9. Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, Swiss Family Robinson, The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe and Aesop's Fables were all originally converted to one syllable forms by Mary Godolphin. She was not given credit in the Altemus book.

 

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Format 2 #9 (earlier)

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Format 2 #11 (earlier)

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Format 2 #12

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Format 3 #9 Dust Jacket

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Format 4 #7

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