Ariston-Dilettante Series

Topic:

Publish Dates: 1908-1911

Volumes: 21

Formats: 2

Title:

Author:

Year:

Illustrator:

1

Sonnets from the Portuguese

Mrs. Browning

2

Love Poems

Lord Byron

3

Splendors of Nature

John W. Chadwick

4

Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens

5

Friendship and Love

Ralph Waldo Emerson

6

Evangeline

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

7

Love Letters of a Violinist

Eric Mackay

8

Lucile

Owen Meredith

9

Love's Thread of Gold

Rose Porter

10

Child's Garden of Verses

Robert Louis Stevenson

11

Friends

A. W. Thorold

12

(No book was published for this number)

13

Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius

14

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Edward Fitzgerald

15

Elegy and Other Poems

Thomas Gray

16

Men and Women

Robert Browning

17

Vision of Sir Launfal

James Russell Lowell

18

Holy Grail

Alfred Lord Tennyson

19

Snowbound

John G. Whittier

20

Poems and Poesies

Charles Welsh

21

Anacreon

Anacreon

This series was published by H. M. Caldwell Co. beginning in 1908. It was printed until 1911. The first eleven titles were published as the Ariston Series in 1907.

Book #21 was added in 1909.

Photogravure frontispiece with border illustrations or decorations on each page.

Two formats:

1. Embossed lithographed cloth covers in gold and silver. Multiple covers have been seen and are not necessarily unique to a specific title. 6” x 8.25”. Boxed (1908-1911) Examples are shown below

2. Cloth. Various colors. Centrally placed oval within which is a picture.
Common template for all the volumes. 6” x 8.25”. Boxed (1909-1911)

Format 1 (Examples shown)

Format 2 (Examples shown)