Young Folk's Library- Second Numbering

Published by H. M. Caldwell Co.
1. Adventures of a Brownie by Miss Mulock
2. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
3. Dog of Flanders by Ouida
4. Aesop's Fables by Anonymous
5. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
6. Jackanapes by Juliana H. Ewing
7. Christie's Old Organ by Mrs. O. F. Walton
8. Child's History of England by Charles Dickens
9. Editha's Burglar by F. H. Burnett
10. Fairy Land of Science by Arabella B. Buckley
11. Flower Fables by Louisa May Alcott
12. Little Lame Prince by Miss Mulock
13. Little Rosebud by Beatrice Harraden
14. Brownies by Juliana H. Ewing
15. Man Without a Country by Edward Everett Hale
16. Robin Hood by Anonymous
17. Miss Toosey and Laddie by Anonymous
18. Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
19. Pinocchio's Adventures by Translated from the Italian
20. Greek Heroes by Charles Kingsley
21. Rab and His Friends by John Brown
22. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
23. Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
24. Through a Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
25. Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb
26. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
27. Water Babies by Charles Kingsley
28. Wonder Book by Nathaniel Hawthorne
29. Wee Willie Winkie by Rudyard Kipling
30. Fairy Book by Miss Mulock
31. Wreck of the Chancellor by Jules Verne
32. Tour of the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
33. Talks to Children about Jesus by Mrs. Morton
34. Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
35. Boat Club by Oliver Optic
36. Grandfather's Chair by Nathaniel Hawthorne
37. Dr. Ox's Experiment by Jules Verne
38. Rose and the Ring by William Thackeray
39. Burglar's Daughter by Margaret Penrose
40. Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
41. Erie Train Boy by Horatio Alger
42. Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
43. Girl in Ten Thousand by L. T. Meade
44. Stories from Virgil by A. J. Church
45. Story of the Persian War by A. J. Church
46. Wee Macgreegor by J. J. Bell
47. Palmer Cox's Brownie Book by Palmer Cox
48. Boss and Other Dogs by Maria Louise Pool
49. Jessica's First Prayer and Mother by Hesba Stretton
50. Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
6a. Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
12a. Green Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
14a. La Fontaine's Fables
15a. Midshipman Easy by Captain Marryat
16a. Man Without a Country by Edward Everett Hale
20a. Red Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
30a. Yellow Fair Book by Andrew Lang
7b. All Aboard by Oliver Optic
14b. Boat Club by Oliver Optic
20b. Now or Never by Oliver Optic
23b. Prue and I by George W. Curtis
36b. Soldiers Three by Rudyard Kipling
38b. Ten Nights in a Barroom by T. S. Arthur
6c. Black Rock by Ralph Connor
11c. Gold Bug by Edgar Allan Poe
30c. Paul and Virginia by Bernadin de Saint-Pierre
29d. Poor Richard's Almanac
31d. Sweet Girl Graduate by L. T. Meade
32d. Modern Cinderella by Louisa Mae Alcott
38d. Sketch Book by Washington Irving
45d. Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
50d. Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
10e. Starling by Norman McLeod

H. M Caldwell Co. published this series from 1898-1913. There were three distinct numbered book lists. This is the second which was used between 1899 and 1909.

Illustrated

Format 1 - Cloth. Various colors. Picture of a boy and a girl back to back on the cover. 6.5 x 4.5. 1899-1900

Format 2 - Cloth. Various colors. Pictorial picture on applique with a gilt floral decoration surrounding the picture. 6.5 x 4.5 1901

Format 3 - Cloth. Various colors. Gilt decoration surrounding a book appropriate pictorial picture on an applique. 6.5 x 4.5. 1902

Format 4 - Cloth. Various colors. Cover divided into four areas. Upper left has embossed trees while lower right has book appropriate multicolored applique picture. 6.5 x 4.5. 1904

Format 5 - Cloth. Various colors. Gilt floral decoration surrounding a book appropriate rectangular picture on an applique on the cover. 6.5 x 4.5. 1904

Format 6 - Cloth. Various colors. Gilt picture of a village at the top of cover with a pictorial rectangular picture on an applique on the bottom. 6.5 x 4.5. 1906

Format 7 - Cloth. Various colors. Gilt title in a rectangle surrounded by a leaf pattern where it says Young Folks Library. Applique with pictorial picture. Various surrounding decorative patterns have been seen. 6.5 x 4.5. 1908

Format 8 - Cloth. Parti-Style. Front cover is an applique in which there is an oval picture in the center. 6.5 x 4.5. 1909

Between 1910 and 1912 two different covers were used. Formats 7 and 8

Series Notes:
1. The 1899 book list includes #1-32 and the books above numbered with an "a".
2. 1900-1901 #1-40 as above except #14 is still La Fontaine's Fables
3. 1902-1903 #1-41 as above.
4. 1904. #1-50 Deletions include #31, 32, 37
5. 1906 #1-49 Deletions include 7,8,23,31,32,35,37,43,46.
6. 1908 #1-49 Deletions- 6,8,10,30-32.35.37.40, 46. New titles are above with the suffix "b".
7. 1909 #1-49 Deletions- 1,8,10,31,32,35,37,40,43,44,46. New titles are above with the suffix "c".
8. 1910 #1-50 Deletions- 1,4,8,10,35,37, 40 43, 44, 46. New titles above with the suffix "d".
9. 1911 #1-50. Deletions: 1,4,6,8, 11, 23, 35,37, 40, 43-44, 46. New titles above with the suffix "e".
10. 1912 #1-50. Deletions: 1,4,6,8,11,16,18,20-23,26,35-40,43-44,46. No new titles this year.

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