Henry Altemus Company - Vademecum Series (early numbering) 179

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Vademecum Series (early numbering)
1894 - 1898
Varied reprint editions

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179
109
10

	Title:	Author:	Year:	Illustrator:
1	Cranford	Gaskell, Mrs. E.C.
2	Window in Thrums	Barrie, J.M.
3	Rab and His Friends	Brown, John
4	Vicar of Wakefield	Goldsmith, Oliver
5	Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow	Jerome, Jerome K.
6	Tales From Shakespeare	Lamb, Charles and Mary
7	Sesame and Lilies	Ruskin, John
8	Ethics of the Dust	Ruskin, John
9	Pleasures of Life	Lubbock, John
10	Scarlet Letter (For more information click here)	Hawthorne, Nathaniel
11	House of the Seven Gables	Hawthorne, Nathaniel
12	Mosses from an Old Manse	Hawthorne, Nathaniel
13	Twice Told Tales	Hawthorne, Nathaniel
14	Essays of Lord Francis Bacon with Memoirs and Notes	Bacon, Francis
15	Emerson's Essays, First Series	Emerson, Ralph Waldo
16	Emerson's Essays, Second Series	Emerson, Ralph Waldo
17	Representative Men	Emerson, Ralph Waldo
18	Thoughts of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius	Aurelius, Marcus
19	Discourses, Epictetus	Long, George
20	Of the Imitation of Christ	Kempis, Thomas A.
21	Addresses (Drummond)	Drummond, Henry
22	Chesterfield's Letters, Sentences and Maxims	Chesterfield, Lord
23	Reveries of a Bachelor (For more information click here)	Marvel, Ik
24	Dream Life	Marvel, Ik
25	Sartor Resartus	Carlyle, Thomas
26	Heroes and Hero Worship	Carlyle, Thomas
27	Uncle Tom's Cabin	Stowe, Harriet Beecher
28	Last Essays of Elia	Lamb, Charles
29	My Point of View	Shephard, William
30	Sketch Book	Irving, Washington
31	Kept for the Master's Use	Havergal, Frances Ridley
32	Lucile	Meredith, Owen
33	Lalla Rookh	Moore, Thomas
34	Lady of the Lake	Scott, Sir Walter
35	Marmion	Scott, Sir Walter
36	Princess and Maud	Tennyson, Alfred Lord
37	Childe Harold's Pilgrimage	Byron, Lord
38	Idylls of the King	Tennyson, Alfred Lord
39	Evangeline	Longfellow, Henry
40	Belfry of Bruges, and Other Poems	Longfellow, Henry	1895
40a	Longfellow's Poems #1	Longfellow, Henry	1896-1897-1898
41	Show at Washington	unknown	1895-1896
41a	Queen of the Air	Ruskin, John	1897-1898
42	Voices of the Night and Other Poems	Longfellow, Henry	1895
42a	Longfellow's Poems #2	Longfellow, Henry	1896-1897-1898
43	Poems, Volume I (Whittier)	Whittier, John Greenleaf
44	Poems, Volume II (Whittier)	Whittier, John Greenleaf
45	Raven, and Other Poems	Poe, Edgar Allan
46	Thanatopsis and Other Poems	Bryant, William Cullen
47	Last Leaf and Other Poems	Holmes, Oliver Wendell
48	Heroes or Greek Fairy Tales	Kingsley, Charles
49	Wonder Book	Hawthorne, Nathaniel
50	Undine	Fouque, De La Motte
51	Addresses (Brooks)	Brooks, Phillips
52	Balzac's Shorter Stories	Balzac, Honore de
53	Two Years Before the Mast	Dana Jr., Richard
54	Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin	Franklin, Benjamin
55	Last Essays of Elia	Lamb, Charles
56	Tom Brown's School Days	Hughes, Thomas
57	Weird Tales	Poe, Edgar Allan
58	Crown of Wild Olive	Ruskin, John
59	Natural Law in the Spiritual World	Drummond, Henry
60	Abbe Constantin	Halevy, Ludovic
61	Manon Lescaut	Prevost, Abbe
62	Romance of a Poor Young Man	Feuillet, Octave
63	Black Beauty	Sewell, Anna
64	Camille	Dumas, Alexandre
65	Light of Asia	Arnold, Edwin
66	Lays of Ancient Rome	Macaulay, Thomas B.
67	Confessions of an Opium Eater	De Quincey, Thomas
68	Treasure Island	Stevenson, Robert Louis
69	Carmen	Merimee, Prosper
70	Sentimental Journey	Sterne, Laurence
71	Blithedale Romance	Hawthorne, Nathaniel
72	Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs	Gilbert, W.S.
73	Fanchon	Sand, George
74	Poems (Lowell)	Lowell, James Russell
75	John Ploughman's Talk	Spurgeon, Rev. Charles
76	John Ploughman's Pictures	Spurgeon, Rev. Charles
77	Manliness of Christ	Hughes, Thomas
78	Addresses to Young Men	Beecher, Rev. Henry Ward
79	Autocrat of the Breakfast Table	Holmes, Oliver Wendell
80	Mulvaney Stories	Kipling, Rudyard
81	Ballads	Kipling, Rudyard
82	Morning Thoughts	Havergal, Frances Ridley
83	Ten Nights in a Bar-Room	Arthur, Timothy Shay
84	Evening Thoughts	Havergal, Frances Ridley
85	In Memoriam	Tennyson, Alfred Lord
86	Coming to Christ	Havergal, Frances Ridley
87	House of the Wolf	Weyman, Stanley
88	Changed Cross and Other Religious Poems	Anonymous
89	Laddie and Miss Toosey's Mission	Anonymous
90	Gold Dust	Anonymous
91	Daily Food for Christians	Anonymous
92	Plain Tales From the Hills	Kipling, Rudyard
93	Phantom Rickshaw	Kipling, Rudyard
94	Jessica's First Prayer and Jessica's Mother	Stretton, Hesba
95	Throne of Grace	Anonymous
96	Steps Into the Blessed Life	Meyer, Rev.F.B.
97	Adventures of a Brownie	Mulock, Miss
98	Impregnable Rock of Holy Scripture	Gladstone, William E,
99	Pathway of Promise	M., J.A.
100	Pathway of Safety	Oxenden, Rev. Ashton
101	Kidnapped	Stevenson, Robert Louis
102	Prince of the House of David	Ingraham, Rev. J. H.
103	Christian Life	Oxenden, Rev. Ashton
104	Message of Peace	Church, Rev. R.W.
105	Peep of Day	Anonymous
106	Line Upon Line	Anonymous
107	Precept Upon Precept	Anonymous
108	Tanglewood Tales	Hawthorne, Nathaniel
109	Song of Hiawatha	Longfellow, Henry

Henry Altemus      Format: 1      Volumes: 1 - 27
Paperback. The cover was the same as the frontispiece of the cloth style in 1894. This format was only published in 1894.

Henry Altemus      Format: 2      Volumes: 1 - 59
Half Russia. Full back, gold tops. Boxed.

Henry Altemus      Format: 3      Volumes: 1 - 109
Various attractive multicolored decorative patterns with both floral and line drawn decorations. See pictures for which decoration appeared in which year of publication. 6.0 x 4.25 or 5.87 x 4.25.

Henry Altemus      Format: 4      Volumes: 1 - 109
Half calf. Gold tops. Boxed.

Series Notes:
1. In 1894 #1-27 were published. In 1895 #1-59 were published. In 1896 #1-74 were published. In 1897 #1-87 were published. In 1898 #1-109 were published. Starting in 1899 new numbering with the books in alphabetical order was used.
2. Format 3 changed every year. The year and cover are shown in the picture section.
3. The cloth cover books of 1896, 1897 and 1898 were boxed.

Special comments: From the pictures below it it easy to appreciate that many of these formats were published in various colors. This means that if the 1898 cover came in 6 different colors that each of the 109 titles published in this series in that year were also published with 6 different color covers. I suspect that some colors have not yet been seen.

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