Henry Altemus Company - Vademecum Series (later numbering) Series 180

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Vademecum Series (later numbering)
1899 - 1926
Varied reprint editions

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180
188
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	Title:	Author:	Year:	Illustrator:
1	Abbe Constantin	Halevy, Ludovic
2	Adventures of a Brownie	Mulock, Miss
3	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	Carroll, Lewis
4	American Notes	Kipling, Rudyard
5	Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin	Franklin, Benjamin
6	Autocrat of the Breakfast Table	Holmes, Oliver Wendell
7	Son of the Carolinas	Satterthwaite, C.E.
8	Antony and Cleopatra	Shakespeare, William
9	Midsummer Night's Dream	Shakespeare, William
10	Allegories of the Heart	Hawthorne, Nathaniel
11	Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs	Gilbert, W.S.
12	Bacon's Essays	Bacon, Francis
13	Balzac's Shorter Stories	Balzac, Honore de	1899-1916
13a	In the Time of Terror	Balzac, Honore de	1917-1926
14	Barrack-Room Ballads and Ditties	Kipling, Rudyard
15	Battle of Life	Dickens, Charles
16	Biglow Papers	Lowell, James Russell
17	Black Beauty	Sewell, Anna
18	Blithedale Romance	Hawthorne, Nathaniel
19	Bracebridge Hall	Irving, Washington
20	Bryant's Poems	Bryant, William Cullen
21	Beecher's Addresses	Drummond, Henry
22	Best Thoughts	Drummond, Henry
23	Brooks' Addresses	Brooks, Phillips
24	Black Rock	Connor, Ralph
26	Camille	Dumas, Alexandre
27	Carmen	Merimee, Prosper
28	Charlotte Temple	Rowson, Susanna
29	Chesterfield's Letters, Sentences and Maxims	Chesterfield, Lord
30	Child's Garden of Verses	Stevenson, Robert Louis
31	Childe Harold's Pilgrimage	Byron, Lord
32	Chimes	Dickens, Charles
33	Christie's Old Organ	Walton, O.F.
34	Christmas Carol	Dickens, Charles
35	Confessions of an Opium Eater	De Quincey, Thomas
36	Cranford	Gaskell, Mrs. E.C.
37	Cricket on the Hearth	Dickens, Charles
38	Crown of Wild Olive	Ruskin, John
39	Comedy of Errors	Shakespeare, William
40	Crucifixion of Philip Strong	Sheldon, Charles M.
42	Courtship of Miles Standish	Longfellow, Henry
43	Day Breaketh	Shugert, Fannie
44	Days With Sir Roger De Coverley	Addison, Joseph
45	Discourses, Epictetus	Long, George
46	Dog of Flanders	Ouida
47	Dream Life	Mitchell, Ik (Donald G.)
48	Daily Food for Christians	Anonymous
49	Drummond's Addresses	Drummond, Henry
51	Emerson's Essays, First Series	Emerson, Ralph Waldo
52	Emerson's Essays, Second Series	Emerson, Ralph Waldo
53	Endymion	Keats, John
54	Essays of Elia	Lamb, Charles
55	Ethics of the Dust	Ruskin, John
56	Evangeline	Longfellow, Henry
57	Elizabeth and Her German Garden	Anonymous (Elizabeth von Arnim)
58	Englishwoman's Love Letters	Anonymous
61	Fairy Land of Science	Buckley, Arabella B.
62	Fanchon	Sand, George
63	For Daily Bread	Sienkiewicz, Henry
67	Grammar of Palmistry	St. Hill, Katharine
68	Greek Heroes	Kingsley, Charles
69	Gulliver's Travels	Swift, Jonathan
70	Gold Dust	Anonymous
73	Hamlet	Shakespeare, William
74	Hania	Sienkiewicz, Henry
75	Haunted Man	Dickens, Charles
76	Heroes and Hero Worship	Carlyle, Thomas
77	Song of Hiawatha	Longfellow, Henry
78	Holmes' Poems	Holmes, Oliver Wendell
79	House of the Seven Gables	Hawthorne, Nathaniel
80	House of the Wolf	Weyman, Stanley
81	Hyperion	Longfellow, Henry
87	Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow	Jerome, Jerome K.
88	Idylls of the King	Tennyson, Alfred Lord
89	Impregnable Rock of Holy Scripture	Gladstone, William E,
90	In Black and White	Kipling, Rudyard
91	In Memoriam	Tennyson, Alfred Lord
92	Of the Imitation of Christ	Kempis, Thomas A.
93	In His Steps	Sheldon, Charles M.
95	Julius Caesar	Shakespeare, William
96	Jessica's First Prayer	Stretton, Hesba
97	J. Cole	Gellibrand, Emma
98	John Ploughman's Pictures	Spurgeon, Rev. Charles
99	John Ploughman's Talk	Spurgeon, Rev. Charles
100	King Richard III	Shakespeare, William
101	Kavanagh	Longfellow, Henry
102	Kidnapped	Stevenson, Robert Louis
103	Knickerbocker's History of New York	Irving, Washington
104	Keble's Christian Year	Anonymous
105	Kept for the Master's Use	Havergal, Frances Ridley
106	King Lear	Shakespeare, William
107	La Belle Nivernaise	Daudet, Alphonse
108	Laddie and Miss Toosey's Mission	Anonymous
109	Lady of the Lake	Scott, Sir Walter
110	Lalla Rookh	Moore, Thomas
111	Last Essays of Elia	Lamb, Charles
112	Lays of Ancient Rome	Macaulay, Thomas B.
113	Let Us Follow Him	Sienkiewicz, Henry
114	Light of Asia	Arnold, Edwin
115	Light That Failed	Kipling, Rudyard
116	Little Lame Prince	Mulock, Miss
117	Poems, Volume I (Longfellow)	Longfellow, Henry
118	Poems, Volume II (Longfellow)	Longfellow, Henry
119	Poems (Lowell)	Lowell, James Russell
120	Lucile	Meredith, Owen
121	Line Upon Line	Anonymous
122	Legends of the Province House	Hawthorne, Nathaniel
126	Magic Nuts	Molesworth, Mrs.
127	Manon Lescaut	Prevost, Abbe
128	Marmion	Scott, Sir Walter
129	Master of Ballantrae	Stevenson, Robert Louis
130	Milton's Poems	Milton, John
131	Mine Own People	Kipling, Rudyard
132	Minister of the World	Mason, Caroline Atwater
133	Mosses From an Old Manse	Hawthorne, Nathaniel
134	Mulvaney Stories	Kipling, Rudyard
135	Macbeth	Shakespeare, William
140	Natural Law in the Spiritual World	Drummond, Henry
141	Nature, Addresses and Lectures	Emerson, Ralph Waldo
145	Old Christmas	Irving, Washington
146	Outre-Mer	Longfellow, Henry
147	Othello, the Moor of Venice	Shakespeare, William
150	Paradise Lost	Milton, John
151	Paradise Regained	Milton, John
152	Paul and Virginia	Sainte-Pierre, Bernardin de
153	Peter Schlemihl	Chamisso, Adelbert
154	Phantom Rickshaw	Kipling, Rudyard
155	Pilgrim's Progress	Bunyan, John
156	Plain Tales From the Hills	Kipling, Rudyard
157	Pleasures of Life	Lubbock, John
158	Plutarch's Lives	Anonymous
159	Poems (Poe)	Poe, Edgar Allan
160	Prince of the House of David	Ingraham, Rev. J. H.
161	Princess and Maud	Tennyson, Alfred Lord
162	Prue and I	Curtis, George W.
163	Peep of Day	Anonymous
164	Precept Upon Precept	Anonymous
169	Queen of the Air	Ruskin, John
172	Rab and His Friends	Brown, John
173	Representative Men	Emerson, Ralph Waldo
174	Reveries of a Bachelor (For more information click here)	Mitchell, Ik (Donald G.)
175	Rip Van Winkle	Irving, Washington
176	Romance of a Poor Young Man	Feuillet, Octave
177	Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam	FitzGerald, Edward
178	Romeo and Juliet	Shakespeare, William
179	Robert Hardy's Seven Days	Sheldon, Charles M.
182	Samantha at Saratoga	Holley, Marietta
183	Sartor Resartus	Carlyle, Thomas
184	Scarlet Letter (For more information click here)	Hawthorne, Nathaniel
185	School for Scandal	Sheridan, B. Richard
186	Sentimental Journey	Sterne, Laurence
187	Sesame and Lilies	Ruskin, John
188	Shakespeare's Heroines	Jameson, Mrs.
189	She Stoops to Conquer	Goldsmith, Oliver
190	Silas Marner	Eliot, George
191	Sketch Book	Irving, Washington
192	Snow Image	Hawthorne, Nathaniel
193	Shadowless Man	Chamisso, Adelbert
199	Tales from Shakespeare	Lamb, Charles and Mary
200	Tanglewood Tales	Hawthorne, Nathaniel
201	Tartarin of Tarascon	Daudet, Alphonse
202	Tartarin on the Alps	Daudet, Alphonse
203	Ten Nights in a Bar Room	Arthur, Timothy Shay
204	Things Will take a Turn	Harraden, Beatrice
205	Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius	Aurelius, Marcus
206	Through the Looking Glass	Carroll, Lewis
207	Tom Brown's School Days	Hughes, Thomas
208	Treasure Island	Stevenson, Robert Louis
209	Twice Told Tales	Hawthorne, Nathaniel
210	Two Years Before the Mast	Dana Jr., Richard
211	Merchant of Venice	Shakespeare, William
212	Merry Wives of Windsor	Shakespeare, William
217	Uncle Tom's Cabin	Stowe, Harriet Beecher
218	Undine	Fouque, De La Motte
222	Vic, the Autobiography of a Fox-Terrier	Marsh, Marie More
223	Vicar of Wakefield	Goldsmith, Oliver
224	Visits of Elizabeth	Glyn, Elinor
226	Walden	Thoreau, Henry
227	Water-Babies	Kingsley, Charles
228	Weird Tales	Poe, Edgar Allan	1899-1916
228a	The Gold Bug and Other Tales	Poe, Edgar Allan	1917-1926
229	What is Art?	Tolstoi, Leon
230	Poems, Volume I (Whittier)	Whittier, John Greenleaf
231	Poems, Volume II (Whittier)	Whittier, John Greenleaf
232	Window in Thrums	Barrie, J.M.
233	Woman's Work in the Home	Farrar, Frederic W.
234	Wonder Book	Hawthorne, Nathaniel
235	Wee MacGreegor	Bell, John	1903
241	Yellowplush Papers	Thackeray, William Makepeace
244	Zoe	Anonymous

Henry Altemus Format: 1 Volumes: 1 - 244
Full cloth, ivory finish with embossed gold and inlaid colors on a floral arrangement. Boxed. 6.5 x 4.5. (1899 only)

Henry Altemus Company Format: 2 Volumes: 1 - 12
Numerous different covers varying from brightly colored flowers to paste-on paintings to blindstamped. See below in the picture section. Boxed until 1916. Dust jackets from 1917-1926. 6.5 x 4.5

Series Notes:
1. Format 1 was published only in 1899 on the Henry Altemus imprint. Beginning with Format 2 in 1900 the imprint changed to Henry Altemus Company.
2. At its peak this series had 186 books from the attached list of 188. Random insertions and deletions of the books from the list occurred yearly. No two years included exactly the same titles.
3. Many years had multiple different covers. Sometimes there were the same covers with different colors. Certain years had different color covers with a possibility of several different paste-on flower pictures. Certain years had combinations of various colors and any one of numerous applique European paintings pasted onto the cover pattern. See: http://henryaltemus.com/vademecum.htm.

1899	1899	1899	1899

1899	1899	1899	1899

1900	1900	1900	1900

1900	1900

The 1901 cover colors are shown here. The appliques on the covers are European paintings and there are a total of 43 possible pictures. Thus any one title was published a total of the number of colors that the cover has been seen in times 43. See: http://henryaltemus.com/vademecum.htm Paintings of Alphonse Mucha's Seasons (Summer, Winter, Fall, and Spring) have also been seen with this 1901 cover.

1901	1901	1901	1901

1901	1901

Alphonse Mucha paintings:

The 1901a cover colors are shown here. The appliques on the covers are European paintings and there are a total of 43 possible pictures. Thus any one title was published a total of the number of colors that the cover has been seen in times 43. See: http://henryaltemus.com/vademecum.htm

1901a

The 1902 cover colors are shown here. The appliques on the covers are European paintings and there are a total of 43 possible pictures. Thus any one title was published a total of the number of colors that the cover has been seen in times 43. See: http://henryaltemus.com/vademecum.htm

1902 Box	1902	1902	1902

1902	1902	1902	1902

1902

The 1903 cover colors are shown here. The appliques on the covers are European paintings and there are a total of 43 possible pictures. Thus any one title was published a total of the number of colors that the cover has been seen in times 43. See: http://henryaltemus.com/vademecum.htm

1903 Box			1903	1903

1903	1903	1903	1903	1903

1904

The books of this style format have one of four possible flower patterns pasted on the cover. Any flower can appear with any cover color. The four flowers are shown here.

One exception has been noted. The book below has a picture of trees and grassland similar to that seen in the European paintings on the 1901, 1903, and 1907 Vademecum Series appliqués. This cover variant is quite rare.

1904- European Painting Applique	Flowers	1904 Box

1904 Queen Anne's Lace	1904 Queen Anne's Lace	1904 Iris	1904 Iris

1904 Orchid	1904 Orchid	1904 Nasturtium	1904 Nasturtium

1904 Orchid	1904 Queen Anne's Lace	1904 Iris

1905-1906 Box		1905-06 Queen Anne's Lace	1905-06 Iris

1905-06 Nasturtium	1905-06 Nasturtium	1905-06 Orchid

The 1907 cover colors are shown here. The appliques on the covers are European paintings and there are a total of 43 possible pictures. Thus any one title was published a total of the number of colors that the cover has been seen in times 43. See: http://henryaltemus.com/vademecum.htm

1907 Box		1907	1907

1907	1907	1907

The 1907a cover colors are shown here. The appliques on the covers are European paintings and there are a total of 43 possible pictures. Thus any one title was published a total of the number of colors that the cover has been seen in times 43. See: http://henryaltemus.com/vademecum.htm

1907a Box		1907a	1907a

1907a	1907a	1907a

1908 Box

1908

These covers have a small applique. Usually the picture is of a tree, field or mountains. I have seen more than 50 different ones. They defy labeling because in fairness many times a tree is just a tree.

1909-1912 Box

1909-1912

1912-1913 Box	1912-1913	1912-1913	1912-1913

1912-1913	1912-1913 Box		1912-1913

1912-1913	1912-1913	1912-1913	1912-1913

1915 Box	1915	1917 Dust Jacket	1917

1920s Dust Jacket	1920s