Henry Altemus / Henry Altemus Company (1842-1936)

Henry Altemus and the Henry Altemus Company (1842-1936) was a popular and prolific Philadelphia publisher which started as a bookbinder and evolved into a publisher of photographic albums, bibles, decorative reprints of fiction, religious and moralistic books, juvenile series books, fairy tales, puzzle books, etc.

Most all of the Altemus books were published in series form. In keeping with that fact, all of the Tom Brown's Schooldays were published within different Altemus series. Tom Brown at Oxford was not published by Altemus.

Many of Altemus' series were long running. For the most part a new cover was introduced every year or two. Many of the covers were seen with numerous colors. Shown below are the series that included Tom Brown's Schooldays. The covers are representative of the series and are not of the Tom Brown book specifically.

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Altemus Library (1892-1895) http://henryaltemus.com/series/series37.htm

Beauxarts Series http://henryaltemus.com/series/series47.htm

1897

1898

Beauxarts Series (later numbering) http://henryaltemus.com/series/series48.htm

1899-1901

1902

Boys and Girls Classics (1899-1906) http://henryaltemus.com/series/series58.htm

Boy and Girls Own Library (1909-1910) http://henryaltemus.com/series/series59.htm

L'Art Noveau Series 1901 http://henryaltemus.com/series/series118.htm

Laurel Series 1893-1897 http://henryaltemus.com/series/series119.htm

This series consisted of boxed two volume sets. Tom Brown was included with Two Years Beyond the Mast.

Marqueteries Series http://henryaltemus.com/series/series130.htm

1899

Never Old Series 1915 http://henryaltemus.com/series/series136.htm

Petit Trianon Series 1895-1897 http://henryaltemus.com/series/series141.htm

1895-1896

1896

1897

Petit Trianon Series 1898 http://henryaltemus.com/series/series142.htm

Petit Trianon 1899-1909 http://henryaltemus.com/series/series143.htm

There are many variants of these cover formats. See the website for details.

1899

1899-1900

1901-1902

1903-1904

1905-1906

1907

1908-1909

Riviere Series 1901 http://henryaltemus.com/series/series158.htm

Sanpareil Series 1898 http://henryaltemus.com/series/series162.htm

Sanpareil Series 1899 http://henryaltemus.com/series/series163.htm

Stories Children Love Series 1915 http://henryaltemus.com/series/series169.htm

No books from this series have been recognized.

Vademecum Series 1894-1898 http://henryaltemus.com/series/series179.htm

For more information see the website.

1894-1895

1894

1895

1895

1895

1896

1896

1897

1898

Vademecum Series 1899-1925 http://henryaltemus.com/series/series180.htm

For more information see the website.

1899

1899

1900

1901

1901

1902

1903

1904

1905-1906

1907

1907

1908

1909-1912

1912-1913

1912-1913

1915

1917

1920's

Valenciennes Series 1897 http://henryaltemus.com/series/series181.htm

Valenciennes Series 1898 http://henryaltemus.com/series/series182.htm

Unknown Series

This book is part of a series it is unclear which one.

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