Commonwealth Series

Topic: Classics, essays and poetry reprints

Publish Dates: 1898-1899

Volumes: 50

Formats: 1

Title:

Author:

Year:

Illustrator:

1

Alice and Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

Lewis Carroll

2

Emerson’s Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson

3

First Violin

Jessie Fothergill

4

Hypatia

Charles Kingsley

5

Ivanhoe

Sir Walter Scott

6

Lucile

Owen Meredith

7

Lorna Doone

R. D. Blackmore

8

Little Minister

J. M. Barrie

9

Pickwick Papers

Charles Dickens

10

Pilgrim’s Progress

John Bunyan

11

Romola

George Eliot

12

Stickit Minister

S. R. Crockett

13

Thelma

Marie Corelli

14

Tales from Shakespeare

Charles and Mary Lamb

15

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe

16

Vanity Fair

William M. Thackeray

17

Familiar Quotations

Bartlett

18

Home Book of Poetry

Numerous

19

Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson

20

Wormwood

Marie Corelli

21

Faust

Johann Goethe

22

Deemster

Hall Caine

23

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Bronte

24

John Halifax

Miss Mulock

25

Lamplighter

Maria Susanna Cummins

26

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

27

Romance of Two Worlds

Marie Corelli

28

Fifteen Decisive Battles

Edward Creasy

29

Lady of the Lake

Sir Walter Scott

30

Sesame and Lilies

John Ruskin

31

Last Days of Pompeii

Bulwer-Lytton

32

Life of Christ

Frederic Farrar

33

Plain Tales from the Hills

Rudyard Kipling

34

Soldiers Three

Rudyard Kipling

35

On the Heights

Berthold Auerbach

36

Samantha at Saratoga

Marietta Holley

37

East Lynne

Jeffrey Wood

38

Charles O. Malley

Charles James Lever

39

Oregon Trail

Francis Parkman

40

Views Afoot

Bayard Taylor

41

Kenilworth

Sir Walter Scott

42

Tom Brown at Oxford

Thomas Hughes

43

Tom Brown at Rugby

Thomas Hughes

44

Varda

John Ruskin

45

Eqyptian Princess

Geoge Ebers

46

Spy

James Fennimore Cooper

47

Gold Elsie

E. Marlitt

48

Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne

49

David Copperfield

Charles Dickens

50

Three Musketeers

Alexandre Dumas

Format 1 - Floral design in several rectangles which has been seen in several colors. 7.75 x 5.25

Series Notes:
1. Although the title page says Famous Books by Famous Authors, this format does not belong to that series. Caldwell used plates from the "Famous Books" series for a number of its publisher's series.