Gift books
Here are entered books, usually illustrated literary miscellanies, which are intended as keepsakes or gifts, especially those published annually and popular in the 19th century, as well as works about such books.
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Broader terms:Narrower terms:Used for:- Annual gift books
- Annuals (Gift books)
- Christmas books
- Gift-books (Annuals, etc.)
- Giftbooks
- Keepsakes (Books)
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The Young Lady's Offering: or, Gems of Prose and Poetry (Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Co., 1851), contrib. by L. H. Sigourney, Mrs. Hemans, Eliza Cook, L. E. L. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon), Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sarah Stickney Ellis, Mary Howitt, and Caroline Sheridan Norton- Affection's Gift: A Christmas, New-Year, and Birth-Day Present (2 parts (first by Winslow, second by Sandford) in 1 volume; New York: Leavitt and Allen, ca. 1854), contrib. by Hubbard Winslow and Elizabeth Sandford
- A Bibliographical Check-List of Christmas Books (Portland, ME: Southworth-Anthoensen Press, 1937), by Walter Klinefelter (page images at HathiTrust)
- Literary Annuals and Gift-Books: A Bibliography With a Descriptive Introduction (Boston: The Boston Book Company, 1912), by Frederick W. Faxon
- The Keepsake (partial serial archives)
- The Blinded Soldiers and Sailors Gift Book (London: Jarrold and Sons, ca. 1915), ed. by George Goodchild (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- The Blinded Soldiers and Sailors Gift Book (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons; London: Jarrold and Sons, 1916), ed. by George Goodchild (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Defenders of Democracy: Contributions from Representative Men and Women of Letters and Other Arts From Our Allies and Our Own Country (1918), ed. by Militia of Mercy (U.S.) Gift Book Committee (Gutenberg text)
- Melba's Gift Book of Australian Art And literature (published for the Belgian Relief Fund by G. Robertson and Co., ca. 1915), ed. by Franklin Peterson, contrib. by Nellie Melba (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Melba's Gift Book of Australian Art And literature (published for the Belgian Relief Fund by Hodder and Stoughton, ca. 1915), ed. by Franklin Peterson, contrib. by Nellie Melba (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Princess Mary's Gift Book (London et al.: Hodder and Stoughton, ca. 1914) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Queen's Gift Book: In Aid of Queen Mary's Convalescent Auxiliary Hospitals for Soldiers and Sailors Who Have Lost Their Limbs in the War (London et al.: Hodder and Stoughton, 1915), contrib. by Queen Mary, John Galsworthy, Arthur James Balfour, J. M. Barrie, E. F. Benson, John Buchan, J. E. Buckrose, Hall Caine, Joseph Conrad, Ethel M. Dell, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jeffery Farnol, Beatrice Harraden, Joseph Hocking, Leonard Merrick, Jerome K. Jerome, John Oxenham, Gilbert Parker, Mrs. Henry De La Pasture, Neil Munro, E. Œ. Somerville, Martin Ross, Marjory Royce, H. C. McNeile, Maud Diver, Ernest Thompson Seton, and Humphry Ward, illust. by William Llewellyn, A. S. Cope, Lewis Christopher Edward Baumer, Harry Rountree, Archibald Webb, J. H. Hartley, William Hatherell, C. M. Padday, W. Russell Flint, Ernest H. Shepard, L. Raven-Hill, S. Abbey, Arthur Rackham, Fred Pegram, Edmund Blampied, Gordon Browne, Eugene Hastain, Claude A. Shepperson, C. E. Brock, W. Heath Robinson, G. Barrow, Leo Cheney, M. E. Gray, Charles Robinson, Dudley Hardy, and Leopold Bates
- Told in the Huts: The Y.M.C.A. Gift Book Contributed by Soldiers and War Workers (London: Jarrold and Sons, 1916), contrib. by Arthur K. Yapp, illust. by Cyrus Cuneo
- Canada in Khaki: A Tribute to the Officers and Men Now Serving in the Canadian Expeditionary Force (London: Pub. for the Canadian War Records Office by the Pictorial Newspaper Co. (1910), 1917) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Canada in Khaki No. 2: A Tribute to the Officers and Men Now Serving in the Overseas Military Forces of Canada (Toronto: Musson Book Co., ca. 1918) (multiple formats at archive.org)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Anthologies- The Pocket University (23 volumes; Garden City, NY: Pub. for N. Doubleday, Inc. by Doubleday, Page and Co., 1924), ed. by Bliss Perry, Thomas L. Masson, Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson, George Iles, Hamilton Wright Mabie, and Lyman Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Pocket University (23 volumes; Garden City, NY: Pub. for N. Doubleday, Inc. by Doubleday, Page and Co., 1924), ed. by Bliss Perry, Thomas L. Masson, Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson, George Iles, Hamilton Wright Mabie, and Lyman Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)
- Authors Digest: The World's Great Stories in Brief, Prepared by a Staff of Literary Experts, With the Assistance of Many Living Novelists (20 volumes; New York: Issued under the auspices of the Authors Press, c1908), ed. by Rossiter Johnson
- Volume I (About - Austen): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II (Austin - Behn): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume III (Bellamy - Bulwer-Lytton): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume IV (Bulwer-Lytton - Claretie): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume V (Cobb - Cooper): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume VI (Coppée - Dickens): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume VII (Dickens - Dumas): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume VIII (Dumas - Fothergill): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume IX (Fouque - Hardy): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume X (Hardy - Hugo): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume XI (Hugo - Lever): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume XII (Lewald - Mulbach): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume XIII (Mulock - Reade): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume XIV (Reid - Scott): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume XV (Scott - Sterne): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume XVI (Stevenson - Tourgee): multiple formats at Google
- Volume XVII (Trollope - Zola): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume XVIII (Mythology and Folk-Lore): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume XIX (Dictionary of Biographies, revised 1927): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume XX (Dictionary of Famous Names): multiple formats at Google
- The Bed-Book of Happiness (London et al.: Hodder and Stoughton, 1914), ed. by Harold Begbie (Gutenberg text)
- Half-Hours With the Best Authors, Including Biographical and Critical Notices (revised edition, 4 volumes; London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1866), ed. by Charles Knight, illust. by William Harvey
- The Harvard Classics (50 volumes; New York: P.F. Collier and Son, 1909-1917), ed. by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson
- The Library of Romance: A Collection of Traditions, Poetical Legends, and Short Standard Tales and Romances, of All Nations (London: O. Hodgson, 1837) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern (special edition, 31 volumes; New York: The International Society, c1896-1899), ed. by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Gilbert Runkle, and George H. Warner (page images at HathiTrust)
- Little Classics (18 volumes), ed. by Rossiter Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Book for a Corner: or, Selections in Prose and Verse From Authors the Best Suited to That Mode of Enjoyment; With Comments on Each, and a General Introduction (New York: Derby and Jackson, 1857), ed. by Leigh Hunt (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Singing Sioux Cowboy Reader (English text by Clark, Dakota translation by Afraid-of-Hawk; Lawrence, KS: U. S. Indian Service, ca. 1947), by Ann Nolan Clark, trans. by Emil Afraid-of-Hawk, illust. by Andrew Standing Soldier (page images at HathiTrust)
- Indians of the Pueblos: A Story of Indian Life (Chicago et al.: Laidlaw Bros., c1936), by Therese O. Deming, ed. by Milo B. Hillegas, illust. by Edwin Willard Deming (page images at HathiTrust)
- Betty June and Her Friends (New York et al.: American Book Co., 1929), by Lena B. Ellingwood, illust. by Ruth Mary Hallock (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
- The Pathway to Reading: First Reader (New York et al.: Silver, Burdett and Co., c1925), by Bessie Blackstone Coleman, Willis L. Uhl, and James Fleming Hosic, illust. by Eunice Stephenson and John Stephenson (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
- The Pathway to Reading: Second Reader (New York et al.: Silver, Burdett and Co., c1925), by Bessie Blackstone Coleman, Willis L. Uhl, and James Fleming Hosic, illust. by Eunice Stephenson and John Stephenson (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
- Fifth Reader (from the De La Salle series; revised edition, 1922) (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The American First Class Book: or, Exercises in Reading and Recitation (Boston : Charles Bowen, 1836, c1835), ed. by John Pierpont (page images at Pitt)
- The Child Life Fifth Reader (New York and London: Macmillan, 1902), by Etta Blaisdell McDonald and Mary Frances Blaisdell (page images at HathiTrust)
- Children of the Cliff (New York: D. Appleton and Co., c1905), by Belle Wiley and Grace Willard Edick (page images at HathiTrust)
- Dramatic Reader for Lower Grades (New York et al.: American Book Co., c1911), by Florence Holbrook (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
- The English Reader, or Pieces in Prose and Poetry (Utica: Printed by Hastings & Tracy, 1827), ed. by Lindley Murray (page images at Pitt)
- Fifty Famous Stories Retold, by James Baldwin (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
- The First Reader (Appleton's School Readers #1; New York et al.: American Book Co., c1878), by William Torrey Harris, Andrew J. Rickoff, and Mark Bailey (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
- Fishing and Hunting (New York et al.: American Book Co., c1905), by Sarah M. Mott and Maude Barrows Dutton Lynch (page images at HathiTrust)
- From Many Lands: A Third Reader (New York and Chicago: Globe School Book Co., c1901), ed. by Florence Holbrook and Mary Frances Hall
- Graded Poetry: Seventh Year, ed. by Katherine Devereux Blake and Georgia Alexander (Gutenberg text)
- A History of the McGuffey Readers (Cleveland: Burrows Brothers, 1911), by Henry Hobart Vail (Gutenberg text and other formats)
- Introduction to the National Reader (New York : George F. Cooledge, c1835), ed. by John Pierpont (page images at Pitt)
- A Manual of Useful Studies: For the Instruction of Young Persons of Both Sexes, in Families and Schools (New Haven: S. Babcock, 1839), by Noah Webster
- A Manual of Useful Studies: For the Instruction of Young Persons of Both Sexes, in Families and Schools (Philadelphia: J. Harding, 1846), by Noah Webster
- McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader (New York: American Book Co., c1879), ed. by William Holmes McGuffey (page images at Pitt)
- McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader, Revised Edition (New York et al: John Wiley and Sons, c1920; with transcriber commentary), contrib. by William Holmes McGuffey (Gutenberg text and other formats)
- McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader, Revised Edition (New York et al: John Wiley and Sons, c1920; with transcriber commentary), contrib. by William Holmes McGuffey (Gutenberg text and other formats)
- McGuffey's New Fifth Eclectic Reader: Selected and Original Exercises for Schools (Cincinnati: Sargent, Wilson & Hinkle; New York: Clark & Maynard, c1857), ed. by William Holmes McGuffey (page images at Pitt)
- McGuffey's New Fourth Eclectic Reader: Instructive Lessons for the Young (Cincinnati: Wilson, Hinkle & Co.... c1866), ed. by William Holmes McGuffey (page images at Pitt)
- McGuffey's New Sixth Eclectic Reader: Exercises in Rhetorical Reading, With Introductory Rules and Examples (Cincinnati: Sargent, Wilson & Hinkle; New York: Clark & Maynard, c1857), ed. by William Holmes McGuffey (page images at Pitt)
- McGuffey's Second Eclectic Reader, Revised Edition (New York et al: John Wiley and Sons, c1920; with transcriber commentary), contrib. by William Holmes McGuffey (Gutenberg text and other formats)
- McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader (Cincinnati: Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co., c1879), ed. by William Holmes McGuffey (page images at Pitt)
- McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader, Revised Edition (New York et al: John Wiley and Sons, c1921; with transcriber commentary), contrib. by William Holmes McGuffey (Gutenberg text and other formats)
- McGuffey's Third Eclectic Reader, Revised Edition (New York et al: John Wiley and Sons, c1920; with transcriber commentary), contrib. by William Holmes McGuffey (Gutenberg text and other formats)
- The New Barnes Readers, Book One, First Year, Second Half (New York and Chicago: A. S. Barnes Company, c1916), by Herman Dressel, May Robbins, and Ellis U. Graff, illust. by Mabel D. Hill (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)
- The New McGuffey First Reader (updated from McGuffey's original), ed. by William Holmes McGuffey (Gutenberg text)
- The New McGuffey Fourth Reader (updated from McGuffey's original), ed. by William Holmes McGuffey (Gutenberg text)
- Reading-Literature: First Reader (1911), by Harriette Taylor Treadwell and Margaret Free, illust. by Frederick Richardson (illustrated HTML with commentary at Gateway to the Classics)
- Sanders' Union Fourth Reader, by Charles W. Sanders (Gutenberg text)
- The Taylor School Readers: First Reader (Chicago et al.: Werner School Book Co., c1900), by Frances Lilian Taylor
- The Taylor School Readers: Second Reader (New York et al.: Werner School Book Co., c1902), by Frances Lilian Taylor
- The Upward Path: A Reader for Colored Children (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, c1920), ed. by Myron T. Pritchard and Mary White Ovington, contrib. by Robert Russa Moton
- Verse and Prose for Beginners in Reading, ed. by Horace Elisha Scudder (Gutenberg text)
- Away We Go (The Road to Safety book A; New York et al.: American Book Co., c1938), by Horace Mann Buckley, Margaret L. White, Alice B. Adams, and Leslie R. Silvernale, illust. by Ottilie Foy (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
- Stories From Lands of Sunshine (New York et al.: University Pub. Co., c1904), by Eleanor Riggs
- Ten Great Events in History, by James Johonnot (Gutenberg text)
- Ten Great Events in History (Historical series book 4 part 2; New York: D. Appleton, 1887), by James Johonnot
- The Tree-Dwellers (Chicago et al.: Rand McNally, c1904), by Katharine Elizabeth Dopp, illust. by Howard V. Brown
- Aunt Ann's Lesson-Book, for Very Young Children, in Words of One and Two Syllables (London: Harvey and Darton, 1822), by Friend to little children (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
- Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools, Compiled and Annotated, With Questions for Study, ed. by Emilie Kip Baker (Gutenberg text)
More items available under broader and related terms at left.