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1Lyndatrue
I returned from a shopping trip at the local used bookstore (always a wonderful place), with some treasure. One of them was one of those lovely old books by a publisher who never EVER seems to date books. I am not sure why I bothered to google the publisher's name, but I did. Voila!
There is an entire web site devoted to "Henry Altemus Company" with more information about the books published from 1842 to 1936 than I could imagine.
http://henryaltemus.com/
I managed to find a matching cover identical to the Black Beauty I just picked up, and considering the many people who collect children's and young adult works here on LT, I really wanted to share this resource.
http://henryaltemus.com/intro.htm
Entertaining reading, all on its own. Life is just good, sometimes.
There is an entire web site devoted to "Henry Altemus Company" with more information about the books published from 1842 to 1936 than I could imagine.
http://henryaltemus.com/
I managed to find a matching cover identical to the Black Beauty I just picked up, and considering the many people who collect children's and young adult works here on LT, I really wanted to share this resource.
http://henryaltemus.com/intro.htm
Entertaining reading, all on its own. Life is just good, sometimes.
3Foretopman
This site helped me pin down the publication dates of my two Henry Altemus books. Very useful. Thanks so much for sharing.
4Keeline
#1 by @Lyndatrue>
The HenryAltemus.com site is written by Cary Sternick, a comprehensive collector of many types of juvenile series books from Texas.
When you say that they don't date the books, do you mean that Altemus doesn't indicate the printing year? Their series books are usually dated for the first year the story was issued. However, for reprints of classics like A Child's Garden of Verses I could see them not printing a year in it at all.
For series books the format and advertised titles (in the book and on the dust jacket) are clues we use. Sometimes even these can be misleading.
James
The HenryAltemus.com site is written by Cary Sternick, a comprehensive collector of many types of juvenile series books from Texas.
When you say that they don't date the books, do you mean that Altemus doesn't indicate the printing year? Their series books are usually dated for the first year the story was issued. However, for reprints of classics like A Child's Garden of Verses I could see them not printing a year in it at all.
For series books the format and advertised titles (in the book and on the dust jacket) are clues we use. Sometimes even these can be misleading.
James
5Lyndatrue
>4 Keeline: I mean that there's no date on the publication page, nor anywhere in the book.
Now you have me wondering where I put my copy of "A Child's Garden of Verses" (it was around here somewhere, I swear, last time I looked)...
Now you have me wondering where I put my copy of "A Child's Garden of Verses" (it was around here somewhere, I swear, last time I looked)...
6Lyndatrue
I can't think of where else to post this, but it was so amazing that I had to put it somewhere.
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/11/the-ingenuity-and-beauty-of-creative-parch...
Photographs, and a discussion, of book repair of parchment with silk thread in the middle ages; it's just remarkable (and lovely) to see the clever work in salvaging the parchment for further use.
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/11/the-ingenuity-and-beauty-of-creative-parch...
Photographs, and a discussion, of book repair of parchment with silk thread in the middle ages; it's just remarkable (and lovely) to see the clever work in salvaging the parchment for further use.
7MarthaJeanne
I've posted this in http://www.librarything.com/groups/ancientandmedievalma
8Lyndatrue
>7 MarthaJeanne: Thanks. I just didn't want to lose it. Beautiful work on those old books, and a testimony to the longevity of silk thread as well.
