H. M. Caldwell

 
 


Chef D'Oeuvre Series (Earlier numbering)

Topic:

Publish Dates: 1896-1897

Volumes: 90

Formats: 1

 


Title:

Author:

Year:

Illustrator:

1

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll

 


2

Abbe Constantin

Ludevic Halevy

 


3

Addresses

Phillips Brooks

 


4

Addresses

Henry Drummond

 


5

Change of Air

Anthony Hope

 


6

Man of Mark

Anthony Hope

 


7

No book is at this number


 


8

Study in Scarlet

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

 


9

Dog of Flanders

Ouida

 


10

Aesop's Fables

Anonymous

 


11

Black Beauty

Anna Sewell

 


12

Beside the Bonny Brier Bush

Ian McLaren

 


13

Beyond the City

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

 


14

Bracebridge Hall

Washington Irving

 


15

Bacon's Essays

Francis Bacon

 


16

Confessions of an Opium Eater

Thomas De Quincey

 


17

Crown of Wild Olive

John Ruskin

 


18

Childe Harold

Lord Byron

 


19

Cranford

Mrs. Gaskell

 


20

Dream Life

Ik Mitchell

 


21

Dreams

Olive Schreiner

 


22

Drummond Year Book

Henry Drummond

 


23

Dickens' Christmas Books

Charles Dickens

 


24

Dickens' Christmas Stories

Charles Dickens

 


25

Dolly Dialogues

Anthony Hope

 


26

Ethics of Dust

John Ruskin

 


27

Evangeline

Henry Longfellow

 


28

Emerson's Essays 1st Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 


29

Emerson's Essays 2nd Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 


30

Education

Herbert Spencer

 


31

House of Seven Gables

Nathaniel Hawthorne

 


32

Idle Thoughts

Jerome K. Jerome

 


33

Idylls of the King

Alfred Lord Tennyson

 


34

Imitation of Christ

Thomas A. Kempis

 


35

Intellectual Life

P. G. Hamerton

 


36

Kidnapped

Robert Louis Stevenson

 


37

Liberty

John Stuart Mill

 


38

Lorna Doone Vol. 1

R. Blackmore

 


39

Lorna Doone Vol. 2

R. Blackmore

 


40

Light of Asia

Edwin Arnold

 


41

Longfellow's Poems, Vol. 1

Henry Longfellow

 


42

Longfellow's Poems, Vol. 2

Henry Longfellow

 


43

Lucile

Owen Meredith

 


44

Lady of the Lake

Walter Scott

 


45

Lalla Rookh

Thomas Moore

 


46

Love Letters of a Worldly Woman

Mrs. W. K. Clifford

 


47

La Fontaine's Fables

Felix Lorioux Fontaine

 


48

Little Loo

W. Clark Russell

 


49

Master of Ballantrae

Robert Louis Stevenson

 


50

Modern Painters

John Ruskin

 


51

Mosses from an Old Manse

Nathaniel Hawthorne

 


52

My Friend, the Murderer

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

 


53

Mystery of Cloomber

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

 


54

Marmion

Walter Scott

 


55

Natural Law in the Spiritual World

Henry Drummond

 


56

Prince Otto

Robert Louis Stevenson

 


57

Precious Thoughts

John Ruskin

 


58

Pearls for Young Ladies

John Ruskin

 


59

Paul and Virginia

Bernadin De Saint Pierre

 


60

Princess

Alfred Lord Tennyson

 


61

Pleasures of Life

John Lubbock

 


62

Paradise Lost

John Milton

 


63

Paradise Regained

John Milton

 


64

Queen of the Air

John Ruskin

 


65

Reveries of a Bachelor

Donald Grant Mitchell

 


66

Representative Men

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 


67

Sport Royal

Anthony Hope

 


68

Sesame and Lilies

John Ruskin

 


69

Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne

 


70

Stickit Minister

Samuel Rutherford Crockett

 


71

Sign of the Four

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

 


72

Stones of Venice

John Ruskin

 


73

She's All the World to Me

Hall Caine

 


74

Sketch Book

Washington Irving

 


75

Twice Told Tales

Nathaniel Hawthorne

 


76

Story of an African Farm

Olive Screiner

 


77

Tales from Shakespeare

Charles and Mary Lamb

 


78

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Hariet Beecher Stowe

 


79

Undine

De La Motte Fouque

 


80

Vicar of Wakefield

Oliver Goldsmith

 


81

Whittier's Poems, Vol. 1

John Greenleaf Whittier

 


82

Whittier's Poems, Vol. 2

John Greenleaf Whittier

 


83

Wide, Wide World, Vol. 1

Susan Warner

 


84

Wide, Wide World, Vol. 2

Susan Warner

 


85

Wonder Book

Nathaniel Hawthorne

 


86

Water Babies

Charles Kingsley

 


87

Window in Thrums

James M. Barrie

 


88

True and Beautiful

John Ruskin

 


89

Autocrat of the Breakfast Table

Oliver Wendell Holmes

 


90

Editha's Burglar

Frances Burnett

 


 

H. M. Caldwell Co. begin publishing this series in 1896. In 1896-1897 the same basic numbered booklist was used. In 1898 and 1899 there was a different numbered booklist.

1896 #1-84
1897 #1-90
1897 Deleted #1, 6, 10, 12, 13, 23, 24, 30, 37, 46, 49, 73

All of the titles are reprints.

Some of these books have illustrations.

Cloth. Stamped in silver and various colored inks. Boxed.

 

 

 

Last Revision: January 2, 2025