Laureate Series of the Poets

Topic:

Publish Dates: 1901-1911

Volumes: 34

Formats: 12

Title:

Author:

Year:

1

Childe Harold

Lord Byron

1a

In Memoriam

Alfred Lord Tennyson

2

Courtship of Miles Standish

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

3

Evangeline

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

4

Hiawatha

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

5

Idylls of the King

Alfred Lord Tennyson

6

Love Poems

various authors

7

Lucile

Owen Meredith

8

Lalla Rookh

Thomas Moore

9

Lady of the Lake

Sir Walter Scott

10

Marmion

Sir Walter Scott

10a

Love's Thread Gold and Other Poems

Rose Porter

11

Princess

Alfred Lord Tennyson

12

Paradise Lost

John Milton

13

Paradise Regained

John Milton

13a

Splendors of Nature

John W. Chadwick

14

Poems

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

15

Poems

John Whittier

16

Religious Poems

various authors

16a

Favorite Poems

various authors

17

Robert Browning's Selections

Robert Browning

18

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Edward Fitzgerald

19

Familiar Quotations

Bartlett

20

Child's Garden of Verses

Robert Louis Stevenson

21

Bitter Sweet

J. G. Holland

22

Burns's Poems

Robert Burns

23

One Hoss Shay

Oliver Wendell Holmes

24

Poe's Poems

Edgar Allen Poe

25

Lowell's Poems

James Russell Lowell

26

Recessional and Departmental Ditties

Rudyard Kipling

27

Vampire and Other Verses

Rudyard Kipling

28

Voices of Freedom and Other Poems

John G. Whittier

29

Tales of a Wayside Inn

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

30

Marmion

Sir Walter Scott

31

Childe Harold

Lord Byron

32

Ballads and Poems

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

33

Love Letters of a Violinist

Eric Mackay

34

Snowbound

John G. Whittier

H. M. Caldwell Co. first published this series in 1901.
All of the title are reprints.

1901 #1-16
1902 #1-21 with #10,13 deleted
1903-1904 #1-25 with #1, 16, 22 deleted. #1a added
1905-1906 #1-28 with 10a, 13a, 16a and 22 added
1907 #1-34. #12, 24, 30 deleted
1908 #1-34
1909 #1-34
1910 #1-34 #33 deleted.
1911 #1-34 #31 deleted

Some of these titles are illustrated.

Twelve formats:

1901-1902
1. Bound in faux wood covers. Inlaid with portrait of the author. Gold cover embellishments. 6.5” x 4”. Boxed.

1901-1902
2. Leather. Gold edges. Boxed (Not seen)

1903
3. Sides Inlaid with a portrait of the author. Stamped in Gold. 6.5” x 4” Boxed

1904
4. Sides Inlaid with a portrait of the author. Stamped in Gold. 6.5” x 4” Boxed

1903-1904
5. Leather with embossed inlay and gold stamping. Gilt edges. Boxed.

1905-1906
6. Cover with inlaid portrait of the author on platinum. Gilt sideband backs. 6.5” x 4”. Boxed

1905-1906-1907
7. Full morocco. Embossed inlay and gold stamping. Round corners, Gold edges. Boxed

1907-1908
8. Marine silk. English vellum backs. Gilt tops. Stamped in gold. 6.5” x 4”. Boxed

1908
9. Bound in full mottled morocco. Cushion covers. Round corners. Gold edges. 6.5” x 4”. Boxed

1908
10. Bound in mottled Morocco. Cushion covers. Round corners. Gilt edges. Boxed (Not seen-the picture shown here is from the 1908 Caldwell catalogue)

1909
11. Silk Cloth. Various pattern and colors. Gilt stamping. Inlaid title. Gilt top. 6.5” x 4’. Boxed

1910-1911
12. Silk cloth. Various patters and colors. Cover lettering stamped in gilt. Gilt top. 6.5” x 4”. Boxed