Henry Altemus Company - Honor Bright Series 106

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Honor Bright Series (See Dainty Series)
1899 - 1909
Children's stories

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106
25
5

	Title:	Author:	Year:	Illustrator:
1	Silver Buckle	Crumpton, M. Nataline	1899
2	Charles Dickens' Children's Stories	Dickens, Charles	1900
3	Children's Shakespeare	Nesbit, E.	1900
4	Young Robin Hood	Fenn, G. Manville	1900
5	Honor Bright	Rowsell, Mary C.	1900
6	Voyage of the Mary Adair	Crompton, Frances E.	1900
7	Kingfisher's Egg	Meade, L.T.	1900
8	Tattine	Ogden, Ruth	1900
9	Doings of a Dear Little Couple	Brine, Mary D.	1900
10	Our Soldier Boy	Fenn, G. Manville	1900
11	Little Skipper	Fenn, G. Manville	1900
12	Little Gervaise and Other Stories	Winter, John Strange	1900
13	Christmas Fairy	Winter, John Strange	1900
14	Molly, the Drummer Boy	Comstock, Harriet T.	1900
15	How "A Dear Little Couple" Went Abroad	Brine, Mary D.	1903
16	Rose-Carnation	Crompton, Frances E.	1906
17	Mother's Little Man	Brine, Mary D.	1906
18	Little Swan Maidens	Crompton, Frances E.	1906
19	Little Lady Val	Green, Evelyn Everett	1906
20	Young Hero	Fenn, G. Manville	1906
21	Queen of the Day	Meade, L.T.	1906
22	That Little French Baby	Winter, John Strange	1906
23	Powder Monkey	Fenn, G. Manville	1906
24	Doll That Talked	Jenks, Tudor	1906
25	What Charlie Found To Do	Douglas, Amanda M.	1906
16a	Bobbie	Bosher, Kate Langley	1905

Henry Altemus      Format: 1      Volume: 1
Cover is half vellum. Gold gilt pattern. See below. The right half has one of a number of different floral decorations. Dust jacket is uncoated with the title and series in a rectangle at the top of the cover. Multiple dust jacket colors noted. 8.25 x 6.25. (1899)

Henry Altemus Company      Format: 2      Volumes: 2 - 14
Same as format 1. (1900-1902)

Henry Altemus Company      Format: 3      Volumes: 1 - 15, 16a
Same half vellum on cover as in format 1/2. The right cover has an illuminated pictorial picture different for each book. Dust jacket is the same as in formats 1/2. 8.25 x 6.25. (1903-1905)

Henry Altemus Company      Format: 4      Volumes: 1 - 15
New half vellum. (see below). The books have the same illuminated vellum on the right side of the covers. Dust jacket is the same as in formats 1/2/3. 7.875 x 5.75. (1906-1908)

Henry Altemus Company      Format: 5      Volumes: 1 - 25
New half vellum which is the same as the vellum from the Rose Carnation Series (see below). Books #1-15 have the same illuminated pictorial picture on the right of the cover as in formats #1-4. Books numbered 16-25 are originally from the Rose Carnation Series (#159). They have an illuminated pictorial picture within a rectangle surrounded by a floral pattern. The early jacket is identical to the dust jackets in the earlier formats. Later the dust jacket pictures two girls walking. The name of the series is at the top and the book and author is at the bottom. 7.5 x 5.5.

Series Notes:
1. This series is also known as the Dainty Series.
2. The title page of Volume 1 stated Henry Altemus not Henry Altemus Company throughout Format 1.
3. As of this date 12 different floral patterns have been noted in format 1/2. The same title can have more than one floral pattern.
4. Regarding format 3:
    a. The earliest books list only to #14 on the jacket reverse.
    b. 1903-1904 books list to #15 on the jacket reverse.
    c. 1905-1906 books list to #16a (Bobbie) on the jacket reverse.
5. Bobbie (#16a) was dropped in format 4.
6. The only thing that distinguishes books #16-25 in this series from the Rose Carnation books is the dust jacket which identifies the book as a member of the Dainty Series. The interior of these books is unchanged from the Rose Carnation Series books.
7. Pictures of Books #16-25 can be seen in the Rose Carnation Series listing.
8. Occasionally a title has been seen with two different illuminated pictorial covers in formats #3 and #4.

Format 1-4 Dust Jacket	Format 1-4 DJ variant	Format 1-4 DJ variant	Format 5 DJ Later

Format 1 #1	Format 1 #1 variant	Format 1 #1 variant	Format 2 #3

Format 2 #4	Format 2 #4 variant	Format 2 #5	Format 2 #6

Format 2 #8	Format 2 #10	Format 2 #11	Format 2 #13

Format 2 #14	Format 2 #14	Format 3 #1	Format 3 #2

Format 3 #3	Format 3 #4	Format 3 #5	Format 3 #6

Format 3 #7	Format 3 #8	Format 3 #9	Format 3 #10

Format 3 #11	Format 3 #12	Format 3 #13	Format 3 #14

Format 3 #15	Format 3 #16a	Format 4 #1	Format 4 #2

Format 4 #3	Format 4 #5	Format 4 #6	Format 4 #8

Format 4 #9	Format 4 #10	Format 4 #10 Variant	Format 4 #11

Format 4 #14	Format 4 #15	Format 5 #1	Format 5 #2

Format 5 #3	Format 5 #4	Format 5 #5	Format 5 #8

Format 5 #9	Format 5 #11	Format 5 #12	Format 5 #14

Format 5 #15