Handy Volume Series
| Topic: Miscellaneous fiction | Publish Dates: 1895-1898 | Volumes: 75 | Formats: 1 |
| Title: | Author: | Year: | Illustrator: | |
| 1 | Ships that Pass in the Night | Beatrice Harraden | ||
| 2 | Love Letters of a Worldly Woman | Mrs. W. K. Clifford | ||
| 3 | String of Amber Beads | Martha Everts Holden | ||
| 4 | Lucile | Owen Meredith | ||
| 5 | At the Green Dragon | Beatrice Harraden | ||
| 6 | Dolly Dialogues | Anthony Hope | ||
| 7 | Things Will Take a Turn | Beatrice Harraden | ||
| 8 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 9 | Phillip Brooks' Addresses | Phillip Brooks | ||
| 10 | Abbe Constantin | Ludovic Halevy | ||
| 11 | Autocrat of the Breakfast Table | O. W. Holmes | ||
| 12 | Black Beauty | Anna Sewell | ||
| 13 | Beyond the City | Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| 14 | Sign of the Four | Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| 15 | Study in Scarlet | Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| 16 | Kidnapped | Robert Louis Stevenson | ||
| 17 | Prince Otto | Robert Louis Stevenson | ||
| 18 | Stickit Minister | S. Rutherford Crockett | ||
| 19 | Change of Air | Anthony Hope | ||
| 20 | Sport Royal | Anthony Hope | ||
| 21 | Mystery of Cloomber | Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| 22 | Man of Mark | Anthony Hope | ||
| 23 | Master and Man | Count Leo Tolstoi | ||
| 24 | My Friend the Murderer | Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| 25 | Master of Ballantrae | Robert Louis Stevenson | ||
| 26 | Chiffon's Marriage | Gyp | ||
| 27 | Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush | Ian Maclaren | ||
| 28 | Crown of Wild Olive | John Ruskin | ||
| 29 | Past and Present | Thomas Carlyle | ||
| 30 | Princess | Alfred Lord Tennyson | ||
| 31 | Queen of the Air | John Ruskin | ||
| 32 | Little Loo | W. Clark Russell | ||
| 33 | She's All the World to Me | Hall Caine | ||
| 34 | Evangeline | Henry Longfellow | ||
| 35 | Uncle Tom's Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe | ||
| 36 | Ten Nights in a Bar Room | T. S. Arthur | ||
| 37 | Drummond's Addresses | Henry Drummond | ||
| 38 | Bracebridge Hall | Washington Irving | ||
| 39 | Bacon's Essays | Francis Bacon | ||
| 40 | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage | Lord Byron | ||
| 41 | Cranford | Mrs. E. C. Gaskell | ||
| 42 | Dream Life | Ik Mitchell | ||
| 43 | Dreams | Olive Schreiner | ||
| 44 | Whittier's Poems | John Greenleaf Whittier | ||
| 45 | Sartor Resartus | Thomas Carlyle | ||
| 46 | Emerson's Essays 1st Series | Ralph Waldo Emerson | ||
| 47 | Emerson's Essays 2nd Series | Ralph Waldo Emerson | ||
| 48 | House of Seven Gables | Nathaniel Hawthorne | ||
| 49 | Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow | Jerome K. Jerome | ||
| 50 | Idylls of the King | Alfred Lord Tennyson | ||
| 51 | Imitation of Christ | Thomas Kempis | ||
| 52 | Light of Asia | Edwin Arnold | ||
| 53 | Longfellow's Poems | Henry Longfellow | ||
| 54 | Lowell's Poems | James Russell Lowell | ||
| 55 | Lady of the Lake | Sir Walter Scott | ||
| 56 | Lalla Rookh | Thomas Moore | ||
| 57 | Sesame and Lilies | John Ruskin | ||
| 58 | Mosses from an Old Manse | Nathaniel Hawthorne | ||
| 59 | Marmion | Sir Walter Scott | ||
| 60 | Natural Law in the Spiritual World | Henry Drummond | ||
| 61 | Paul and Virginia | Bernadin de Sainte Pierre | ||
| 62 | Pleasures of Life | John Lubbock | ||
| 63 | Reveries of a Bachelor | Ik Mitchell | ||
| 64 | Representative Men | Ralph Waldo Emerson | ||
| 65 | Scarlet Letter | Nathaniel Hawthorne | ||
| 66 | Sketch Book | Washington Irving | ||
| 67 | Twice Told Tales | Nathaniel Hawthorne | ||
| 68 | Tales from Shakespeare | Charles and Mary Lamb | ||
| 69 | Vicar of Wakefield | Oliver Goldsmith | ||
| 70 | Rab and His Friends | John Brown | ||
| 71 | Paradise Lost | John Milton | ||
| 72 | Burns' Poems | Robert Burns | ||
| 73 | Tanglewood Tales | Nathaniel Hawthorne | ||
| 74 | Wonder Book for Boys and Girls | Nathaniel Hawthorne | ||
| 75 | Auld Licht Idylls | James Barrie |
| Format 1- E. A. Weeks and Co. Various colors and
decorative front
covers. Numerous colors. Stamped on side and back in silver. 16 mo.
Volumes 1-75 Format 2- Weeks Publishing Company. Various colors and decorative front covers. Numerous colors. Stamped on side and back in silver. 16 mo. Volumes 1-75 Series Notes: 1. Titles #1-4 were first advertised in December, 1894. 2. #1-26 were published in 1895. |
These five book covers were published in 1895-1896 by E. A. Weeks and Co.
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These Handy Volume books were published by the Weeks Publishing Company in 1897-1898. This format has also been seen with both E.A. Weeks and Company (1895-1896) as well as Weeks Publishing Company title page imprints.
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The books below are examples of 1899 George M. Hill Handy Volume published books using the earlier E. A. Weeks and Company title pages. Note the similarity between these covers and the earlier Weeks' covers. Later formats of Hill's Handy Volume Series had Geo. M. Hill title page imprints.
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