Travel-Adventure Series
| 1. In Wild Africa |
by Thomas W. Knox |
Illustrated by H. Burgess |
1895 |
| 2. The Land of the Kangaroo |
by Thomas W. Knox |
Illustrated by H. Burgess |
1896 |
| 3. Over the Andes; or, Our Boys in New South America |
by Hezekiah Butterworth |
Illustrated by Henry Sandham |
1897 |
| 4. Lost in Nicaragua; or, the Countries of the Great Canal |
by Hezekiah Butterworth |
Illustrated by H. Burgess |
1898 |
Four boxed for $6.00 in 1899
It was planned that Knox would write all of the titles in this series.
He died in 1896 and Butterworth wrote the last two volumes.
Three formats have been seen
Format 1. Volumes 1-2. Red Cloth. 8" x6".
The first edition of volume #1 does not include itself in the back ads.
Title #2 only had one printing in this format.
Format 2: Volumes #1-4. Blue or grey cover (no priority known). 8" x 6".
The first edition of Volume #3 - Over the Andes (1897) has the 25 Bromfield address on the title page.
The
first edition of Volume #4 -Nicaragua is of this format but the details
of different ads in the back is not well enough known to determine an
edition.
From 1898 on, Nicaragua and all reprints have Boston and Chicago as the address on the title page.
The third format has a pictorial cover and was published in the 1900's. See http://www.travelogueseries.com/series/tas.html
for more information about this series.
