NEW CHILDREN’S PICTURE-BOOKS
Reading edition
Each of these books contains many full-page and other illustrations, a number of which are in colour. The text is printed in bold type, and comprises bright and humorous stories and rhymes, specially written for the purpose.
IN DOORS AND OUT | STORY-BOOK TIME
Each contains 38 colour pages, over 40 full-page black-and-white Illustrations, and a large number of Vignettes. Quarto, 101/8 inches by 73/4 inches, picture boards, 2s. 6d. each; cloth, gilt edges, 3s. 6d. each.
TWO SHILLING SERIES
Quarto, 101/8 inches by 73/4 inches
Faithful Friends. My Book of Nursery Stories. My Very Best Book Arm-chair Stories. My Very Own Picture-Book. Cosy Corner Stories. Our Darling's First Book
Twenty pages in colour. Cloth, gilt edges, 2s.; picture boards, 1s.
EIGHTEENPENNY SERIES
Cloth, 51/2 inches by 67/8 inches
My Pretty Picture-Book. Sunbeams.
SIXPENNY SERIES
Quarto, 101/8 inches by 73/4 inches
Bow-Wow Picture-Book. Cats and Kits. Friends at the Farm. Once upon a Time. Long, Long Ago. Fairy Tales for Little Folk. Smiles and Dimples. Little Bright-Eyes. For Kittie and Me. As Nice as Nice Can Be. Round the Mulberry Bush. Little Rosebud. For My Little Darling. For Dolly and Me. My Own Story-Book. Play-time Pictures. Bed-time Stories. For Little Chicks.
The cover and seven pages in colour. Picture boards.
ONE SHILLING SCRIPTURE SERIES
Picture boards. Quarto, 101/8 inches by 73/4 inches
Stories from the Life of Christ
Twenty pages in colour. Picture boards, 1s.; cloth, gilt edges, 2s.
SIXPENNY SCRIPTURE SERIES
Glad Tidings The Good Shepherd Gentle Jesus
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE:
Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as possible, including obsolete and variant spellings. Obvious typographical errors in punctuation (misplaced quotes and the like) have been fixed. Corrections [in brackets] in the text are noted below:
Inconsistent spelling?: Irkutsk (throughout) and Irkoutsk (pages 92, 94) Yuruks (page 287) and Yuraks (pages 220, 309) Mesentzeff (page 62) and Mezentsoff (page 66) Moskow (page 62), although Moscow elsewhere page 32: added quote "He is released from his suffering," Katia said solemnly. "Anything else, Akim?["] page 35: added quote as he entered. ["]It is a foolish business altogether, but if page 41: typo corrected "That is more cheerful by a long way," Godfrey said to himself as the man, who had mantained[maintained] absolute silence on page 46: added quote of being mixed up in the most remote way with politics, your best friends will shun you like the plague.["] page 61: extra quote removed grave. Nothing was said until the servant, having handed round the dishes, left the room.["] page 69: typo corrected There are the Guards in London, but the populalation[population] is so large that you might go a week without seeing page 117: added quote political prisoners now. We might be honest peasants if it were not for these confounded heads of hair.["] page 122: typo corrected "we should have been down on the Selinga[Selenga] to-morrow, and we had calculated page 132: extra quote removed lifting the eyelid. "He is coming round now," he said at last.["] A few more passes and the child drowsily opened page 198: added hyphen On the fourth day they saw a small farm[-]house lying not far from the edge of the wood. page 240: added hyphen fishing, keeping holes broken in the ice and catching fish by torch[-]light. The men walked with the sledges, which only page 250: typo corrected "The isvostchiks[Isvostchiks] are often frozen in St. Petersburg in page 276: added comma "It may be either a fox or a bear," Luka said[,] making his way farther back into the hut, and returning with his