Henry Altemus Company - Altemus Library Series 37

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Altemus Library
1892 - 1895
Varied reprint editions

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37
41
4

	Title:	Author:	Year:	Illustrator:
1	Sesame and Lilies	Ruskin, John
2	Pleasures of Life	Lubbock, John
3	Essays of Lord Francis Bacon with Memoirs and Notes	Bacon, Francis
4	Thoughts of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius	Aurelius, Marcus
5	Selection from the Discourses of Epictetus with the Encheridion	Long, George
6	Emerson's Essays, First Series	Emerson, Ralph Waldo
7	Emerson's Essays, Second Series	Emerson, Ralph Waldo
8	Cranford	Gaskell, Mrs. E.C.
9	Of the Imitation of Christ	Kempis, Thomas A.
10	Vicar of Wakefield	Goldsmith, Oliver
11	Chesterfield's Letters, Sentences and Maxims	Chesterfield, Lord
12	Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow	Jerome, Jerome K.
13	Tales From Shakespeare	Lamb, Charles and Mary
14	Natural Law in the Spiritual World	Drummond, Henry
15	Addresses (Drummond)	Drummond, Henry
16	My Point of View	Shephard, William
17	Scarlet Letter	Hawthorne, Nathaniel
18	Representative Men	Emerson, Ralph Waldo
19	My King and His Service	Havergal, Frances Ridley
20	Reveries of a Bachelor	Marvel, Ik
21	House of the Seven Gables	Hawthorne, Nathaniel
22	Dream Life	Marvel, Ik
23	Rab and His Friends	Brown, John
24	Essays of Elia	Lamb, Charles
25	Sartor Resartus	Carlyle, Thomas
26	Heroes and hero Worship	Carlyle, Thomas
27	Ethics of the Dust	Ruskin, John
28	Window in Thrums	Barrie, J.M.
29	Mosses from an Old Manse	Hawthorne, Nathaniel
30	Twice Told Tales	Hawthorne, Nathaniel
31	Uncle Tom's Cabin	Stowe, Harriet Beecher
32	Sketch Book	Irving, Washington
33	Greek Heroes	Kingsley, Charles
34	Undine	Fouque, De La Motte
35	Wonder Book	Hawthorne, Nathaniel
36	Balzac's Shorter Stories	Balzac, Honore de
37	Two Years Before the Mast	Dana Jr., Richard
38	Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin	Franklin, Benjamin
39	Weird Tales	Poe, Edgar Allan
40	Crown of Wild Olive	Ruskin, John
41	Tom Brown's School Days	Hughes, Thomas

Henry Altemus      Format: 1      Volumes: 1 - 41
Cloth with various gold, silver and multicolored designs which are different for each book. Gold or silver gilt tops. In 1892 the books came in boxed sets or in dust jackets. After 1892 this format was not boxed but the books did have dust jackets. 6 x 4.25.

Henry Altemus      Format: 2      Volumes: 1 - 41
Half crushed levant, gold tops and boxed. 6.25 x 4.50.

Henry Altemus      Format: 3      Volumes: 1 - 41
Half genuine English calf with gold tops. Boxed. 6.25 x 4.50.

Henry Altemus      Format: 4      Volumes: 1 - 41
"Renaissance binding". Very fancy morocco. Boxed. These books were $4.00 when they were introduced in 1894. 6.5 x 4.25.

Series Notes:
1. No priority between formats 1, 2 and 3.
2. Books #1-18 were published in 1892.
3. Initially the books were also sold in multivolume boxed sets (1892). Set #1- 3,6,7; Set #2- 4,5; Set #3- 1,2; Set #4- 14,15; Set #5- 9,16; Set #6- 8,10
4. Books #1-30 were published in 1893.
5. Books #1-32 were published in 1894.
6. This series was published until 1897.
7. In 1893 certain volumes were bound in full English calf. #1,2,9,13,15,20,22

1	2	3	3

4	5	6	6

7	8	9	9

9	10	11	12

13 Dust Jacket	13 Dust Jacket	13	14

16	16	17	19

20	21	22	24

25	26	27	28

29	31	32	32

37	40	Format 2 Half Levant	Format 3 Half Calf

Format 3 Half Calf