A collection of hardcover volumes from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, primarily featuring adventure stories, religious narratives, and popular fiction of the period. The volumes are bound in publisher’s decorative pictorial cloth of various colours including green, blue, red, and grey, featuring gilt-stamped or black-stamped titles and thematic illustrations to the spine panels. Notable titles and authors included are St. Veda’s by Annie S. Swan, Graham’s Victory (J.F. Shaw and Co), Great Works by Great Men (S.W. Partridge and Co), John Halifax, Gentleman by Mrs. Craik (Collins), The Luck of Chervil by H. Elrington (Nelson), The War of the Axe by J.P. Groves, In the Hands of the Cave Dwellers by G.A. Henty, Godiva Durleigh by Sarah Doudney (Hutchinson), Arnold Inglehurst (J.F. Shaw and Co), The Log of a Sky-Pilot by T. Stanley Treanor (Religious Tract Society), The Gates of Eden by Annie S. Swan, The Young Llanero by W.H.G. Kingston (Nelson), and The Fen Robbers by Tom Bevan (Nelson). The volumes are generally octavo in format. Many examples include frontispieces and internal illustrations typical of contemporary gift book and reward book publishing.
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