Berkeley Library (early numbering)

Topic: Reprints of fiction, poetry and essays

Publish Dates: 1898-1900

Volumes: 159

Formats: 3

Title:

Author:

Year:

Illustrator:

1

Adam Bede

George Eliot

2

Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

Lewis Carroll

3

Egyptian Princess

George Ebers

4

Alhambra

Washington Irving

5

Aesop's Fables

Anonymous

6

Andersen's Fairy Tales

Hans Christian Andersen

7

Arabian Nights

Anonymous

8

All Sorts and Conditions of Men

Walter Besant

9

Old Maid's Love

Maarten Maartens

10

Soldier of Fortune

Laura T. Meade

11

Ardath

Marie Corelli

12

Bondman

Hall Caine

13

Cloister and the Hearth

Charles Reade

14

Child's History of England

Charles Dickens

15

Creasy's Fifteen Decisive Battles

Edward Shepherd Creasy

16

Children of the Abbey

Regina Maria Roche

17

Chevalier d'Harmental

Alexandre Dumas

18

Corinne

Mme. de Stael

19

Chevalier de Maison Rouge

Alexandre Dumas

20

Company of Jehu

Alexandre Dumas

21

David Copperfield

Charles Dickens

22

Daniel Deronda

George Eliot

23

Deemster

Hall Caine

24

Data of Ethics

Herbert Spencer

25

Descent of Man

Charles Darwin

26

Don Quixote

Cervantes

27

East Lynne

Mrs. Henry Wood

28

Emerson's Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson

29

Eugene Aram

Bulwer Lytton

30

Felix Holt

George Eliot

31

Faust

Goethe

32

First Principles

Herbert Spencer

33

First Violin

Jessie Fothergill

34

Frederick the Great and His Court

L. Muhlbach

35

First Republic

Alexandre Dumas

36

Familiar Quotations

Bartlett

37

Gil Blas

Le Sage

38

Green Mountain Boys

D. P. Thompson

39

Grimm's Fairy Tales

Anonymous

40

Henry Esmond

William Thackeray

41

Hypatia

Charles Kingsley

42

History of Civilization in Europe

M. Guizot

43

Holy Roman Empire

James Bryce

44

Home Book of Poetry

Numerous Authors

45

Ivanhoe

Walter Scott

46

In the Golden Days

Edna Lyall

47

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Bronte

48

John Halifax

Miss Mulock

49

Kenilworth

Walter Scott

50

Knickerbocker History of New York

Washington Irving

51

Last Days of Pompeii

Bulwer Lytton

52

Lucile

Owen Meredith

53

Last of the Barons

Bulwer Lytton

54

Lady of the Lake

Walter Scott

55

Life of Christ

Canon Farrar

56

Lorna Doone

R. D. Blackmore

57

Light that Failed

Rudyard Kipling

58

La Dame de Monsoreau

Alexandre Dumas

59

Middlemarch

George Eliot

60

Marguerite of Valois

Alexandre Dumas

61

Man Who Laughs

Victor Hugo

62

Makers of Florence

Mrs. Oliphant

63

Makers of Venice

Mrs. Oliphant

64

Micah Clarke

Arthur Conan Doyle

65

Mine Own People

Rudyard Kipling

66

Ninety-Three

Victor Hugo

67

Notre-Dame

Victor Hugo

68

Natural Law in the Spiritual World

Henry Drummond

69

New Arabian Nights

Robert Louis Stevenson

70

Other Worlds Than Ours

Richard A. Proctor

71

Old Curiosity Shop

Charles Dickens

72

Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens

73

One Thousand Miles Up the Nile

Amelia B. Edwards

74

Origin of Species

Charles Darwin

75

Oregon Trail

Francis Parkman

76

Page of the Duke of Savoy

Alexandre Dumas

77

Pilgrim's Progress

John Bunyan

78

Poe's Tales

Edgar Allan Poe

79

Plutarch's Lives

Anonymous

80

Plain Tales from the Hills

Rudyard Kipling

81

Queen's Necklace

Alexandre Dumas

82

Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe

83

Romola

George Eliot

84

Royal Edinburgh

Mrs. Oliphant

85

Rienzi

Bulwer Lytton

86

Romance of Two Worlds

Marie Corelli

87

Rob Roy

Walter Scott

88

Samantha at Saratoga

Marietta Holley

89

Shadow of a Crime

Hall Caine

90

Self Help

Samuel Smiles

91

Soldiers Three

Rudyard Kipling

92

Sesame and Lilies

John Ruskin

93

Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne

94

Silence of Dean Maitland

Maxwell Gray

95

Sketch Book

Washington Irving

96

Scottish Chiefs

Jane Porter

97

Swiss Family Robinson

Jean Rudolph Wyss

98

Spy

James Fenimore Cooper

99

Schonberg-Cotta Family

Mrs. Charles

100

Thaddeus of Warsaw

Jane Porter

101

Three Musketeers

Alexandre Dumas

102

Taking the Bastile

Alexandre Dumas

103

Twenty Years After

Alexandre Dumas

104

Toilers of the Sea

Victor Hugo

105

Thelma

Marie Corelli

106

Tom Brown at Oxford

Thomas Hughes

107

Tom Brown at Rugby

Thomas Hughes

108

Tales from Shakespeare

Charles and Mary Lamb

109

Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens

110

Twice Told Tales

Nathaniel Hawthorne

111

Two Dianas

Alexandre Dumas

112

Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson

113

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe

114

Uarda

George Ebers

115

Views Afoot

J. Bayard Taylor

116

Vanity Fair

William Thackeray

117

Vendetta

Marie Corelli

118

Waverly

Walter Scott

119

Westward Ho

Charles Kingsley

120

Wide Wide World

Susan Warner

121

Wormwood

Marie Corelli

122

Zenobia

William Ware

123

What's Bred in the Bone

Allen Grant

124

Wreck of the Grosvenor

William Clark Russell

125

Willy Reilly

William Carleton

126

Lamplighter

Maria S. Cummins

127

Last of the Mohicans

James Fenimore Cooper

128

Old Mam'selles Secret

E. Marlitt

129

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

130

Averil

Rosa Carey

131

Aunt Diana

Rosa Carey

132

Age of Fable

Thomas Bulfinch

133

Merle's Crusade

Rosa Carey

136

Story of the Gadsbys

Rudyard Kipling

137

Our Bessie

Rosa Carey

138

Under the Deodors

Rudyard Kipling

139

Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen

140

Complete Angler

Izaak Walton and Charles Cooton

154

Kipling's Poems

Rudyard Kipling

155

Phantom Rickshaw

Rudyard Kipling

Blithedale Romance. The Snow Image

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Dog Fiend

Captain Marryat

Dream Life

Ik Marvel

Japhet in Search of a Father

Captain Marryat

Kavanagh and Evangeline

Henry W. Longfellow

Letters of Marque

Rudyard Kipling

Longfellow's Poems

Henry W. Longfellow

Mill on the Floss

George Eliot

Mr. Midshipman Easy

Captain Marryat

Mosses from an Old Manse

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Newcomes

William Thackeray

Outre Mer

Henry W. Longfellow

Prue and I

G. W. Curtis

Peter Simple

Captain Marryat

Phantom Ship

Captain Marryat

Pickwick Papers

Charles Dickens

Reveries of a Bachelor

Ik Marvel

Regent's Daughter

Alexandre Dumas

Sartor Resartus

Thomas Carlyle

Tennyson's Poems

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Tour of the World in Eighty Days

Jules Verne

Tanglewood Tales

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Virginians

William Thackeray

Wonder Book and True Stories

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Whittier's Poems

John Greenleaf Whittier

Wee Willie Winkie

Rudyard Kipling

Format 1 - Cloth in various colors. Gold gilt floral decoration and titles within two vertical surrounding lines. 7.75 x 5.5. 1898.

Format 2 - Cloth. Multiple colors. Gold gilt title with floral decoration encompassing entire lower 75% of the cover. 7.75 x 5.5. 1899.

Format 3 - Cloth seen in different colors. Title in gold gilt rectangle at the top of the cover. The initials BL in script are embossed in a regular pattern on the cover and spine. 7.7 x 5.5. 1900.

Series Notes:
1. In 1898 Volumes #1-125 were published.
2. In 1899 there were 140 titles in the series.
3. In 1900 there were 159 titles.
4. In 1900 certain books were deleted from the series while others were added. Deleted were numbers: 8-10, 46, 58, 102, 130-131,133,137. Books that were added were not numbered and are listed below Number 155.

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