Blackie's Famous Books
Publisher: Blackie and Son Ltd. (London, Glasgow).
Country: United Kingdom. Date: 1910-65.
The Swiss Family Robinson:
The Journal of a Father Shipwrecked with his Wife & Children on an Uninhabited Island
By Johann R. Wyss (Translated by M. Wiss)
London, Blackie & Son Ltd, undated (but c. 1945) (Blackie's Famous Books)
Hardback (mid-blue cloth with black titles). Pictorial dust wrapper. 256 pages.Postscript by the editor. Colour frontispiece titled "A Change of Abode".
BLACKIE'S FAMOUS BOOKS (BLACKIE AND SON LTD.)
Series Note: _____
Arranged by author and title
R. M. Ballantyne
The Lighthouse
The Coral Island
Martin Rattler
Ungava
The Dog Crusoe
The Gorilla Hunters
The Young Fur Traders
Deep Down
The Lifeboat
Gascoyne, the Sandle-wood Trader
W. H. G. Kingston
The Three Lieutenants
The Three Commanders
The Three Admirals
Peter the Whaler
The Three Midshipman
Manco, the Peruvian Chief
J. Fennimore Cooper
The Pathfinder
Deerslayer
The Last of the Mohicans
Captain Marryat
Masterman Ready
The Children of the New Forest
The Settlers in Canada
Louisa M. Alcott
Little Women
Good Wives
Hans Andersen
Favourite Fairy Tales
Popular Fairy Tales
S. Baring Gould
Grettir the Outlaw
John Bunyan
The Pilgrim's Progress
Alice Corkran
Meg's Friend
Margery Merton's Girlhood
Susan Coolidge
What Katy Did
What Katy Did at School
What Katy Did Next
Miss Cummins
The Lamplighter
G. W. Dasent
Tales from the Norse
Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe
G. Manville Fenn
Nat the Naturalist
Oliver Goldsmith
The Vicar of Wakefield
The Brothers Grimm
Grimm's Fairy Tales
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Tanglewood Tales
G. A. Henty
A Chapter of Adventures
Tales from Henty
Thomas Hughes
Tom Brown's School Days
Richard Johnson
The Seven Champions of Christendom
Charles Kingsley
The Heroes
The Water- Babies
Charles & Mary Lamb
Tales from Shakespeare
Emma Leslie
Gytha's Message
George MacDonald
The Light Princess
Norman Macleod
The Starling
Bessie Marchant
Greta's Domain
Mary Russell Mitford
Our Village
Rosa Mulholland
Four Little Mischiefs
Hetty Gray
Captain Reid
The Rifle Rangers
Mary C. Rowsell
Thorndyke Manor
Michael Scott
The Cruise of the "Midge"
Sir Walter Scott
Tales of a Grandfather
Catherine Sinclair
Holiday House
R. L. Stevenson
Treasure Island
Kidnapped
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Dean Swift
Gulliver's Travels
Sarah Tytler
Girl Neighbours
A Loyal Little Maid
Jules Verne
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Lew Wallace
Ben Hur
Mrs. Whitney
Faith Gartney's Girlhood
M. Wiss
The Swiss Family Robinson
Charlotte M. Yonge
The Lances of Lynwood
A Book of Golden Deeds
The Little Duke
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Famous Discoveries by Land and Sea
Source of above list:
Back panel of dustjacket of Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes, Blackie and Son Ltd., (n.d. - but c. 1930s) (Blackie's Famous Books series)
More information at: seriesofseries.owu.edu/blackies-famous-books/
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