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A Child's History of England
In 1892 Henry Altemus
published two formats of its non series book-A Child's History of
England by Charles Dickens.
The cloth book was bound in extra fine English cloth and has been seen
in four different colors. The orange book below is just now added to
the database. It was originally priced at $3.00.
A presentation edition published in 1892 and 1893 in Persian levant
Morocco priced at $5.00 has not been seen.
In 1895 at $1.50 a full cloth version seen below in red was first
published.
All the formats have the 1892 copyright. They are also all 9 x 10
inches with engravings by Maurice Leloir as well as others.
1892- Fine English
Cloth
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1892- Fine English
Cloth
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1892- Fine English
Cloth
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1892- Fine English
Cloth
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1895 Full Cloth
Version
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September
1892 - Publishers' Weekly
This full page ad
which appeared in the Publishers' Weekly in September 1892 shows how
Henry Altemus was starting to move away from concentrating on Bibles
and more towards books for reading. The Bibles which were previously
given top billing in the ads is now at the bottom of this full page ad.
The Dore Masterpieces (Series # 78) are noted with a format 5 book
pictured. This is proof positive that this format was published by late
1892.
Also pictured is a copy of A Child's History of England. The four books
listed as New Editions were among the very first reading type books
that Altemus published. The various editions were deluxe and very
expensive for the time.
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