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Books in the British genre:

The Faerie Queene (1894)

An epic poem:A gentle knight was pricking on the plaine,Ycladd in mightie armes and silver shielde … Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): Edmund Spenser
Illustrator(s): Walter Crane

The Illustrated Guide to Wells-Next-the-Sea (1894)

A sixpenny guide to East Anglian seaside resorts.

Author(s): Lemmon Lingwood
Illustrator(s): Photographs
Arthur Rackham

Isis Very Much Unveiled (1894)

A debunking of theosophy and Madame Blavatsky. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): Edmund Garrett
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

Moonbeams and Brownies (1894)

More new fairy tales.

Author(s): Roma White
Illustrator(s): L. Leslie Brooke

More English Fairy Tales (1894)

Confounding the critics, the author produces another collection of English fairy tales. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Joseph Jacobs
Illustrator(s): John D. Batten

My New Home (1894)

Orphaned Helena has a very happy childhood with her Grandmamma. Read for free online at Internet Archive and at Project Gutenberg.... View More

Author(s): Mrs. Molesworth
Illustrator(s): L. Leslie Brooke

Nonsense Songs and Stories (1894)

This is a collection of longer poems and stories from the four nonsense books with a few additions. It does not include the limericks.

Author(s): Edward Lear
Illustrator(s): Edward Lear

Pagan Papers (1894)

This first edition is the only one to include the essays under the title “The Golden Age” which were subsequently included in the book of that name along with additional chapters. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s): Aubrey Beardsley

Pictures of East Coast Health Resorts (1894)

14 illustrations by Rackham which first appeared in Sunrise-Land. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): Arthur Peaton
Illustrator(s): Photographs
Arthur Rackham
Et al

The Prisoner of Zenda (1894)

Rudolf Rassendyll, proper English gentleman, bears an uncanny resemblance to his distant cousin King Rudolf V of Ruritania, and thereby hangs a tale. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): Anthony Hope
Illustrator(s): None

Sunrise-Land (1894)

A tourist guide to eastern England. Read for free online at HathiTrust.

Author(s): Mrs. Alfred Berlyn
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

The Carved Lions (1895)

A brother and sister are unhappy at boarding school when their parents must go abroad. Read for free online at Project Gutenberg.

Author(s): Mrs. Molesworth
Illustrator(s): L. Leslie Brooke

David Balfour: Being Memoirs of His Adventures at Home and Abroad (1895)

In this second volume, David Balfour continues his adventures as he puts himself on the right side of the law, reclaims his inheritance and finds himself a wife.

Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s): Howard Pyle

The Golden Age (1895)

A collection of stories about the author’s childhood. The American first edition is smaller format and includes 241 pages. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s): None

The Homes and Haunts of Thomas Carlyle (1895)

A biography of the author. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): Henry C. Shelley
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham
Et al

Kidnapped: Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751 (1895)

When David Balfour comes to his uncle to claim his inheritance, he is kidnapped and put on a ship for the Carolinas. He escapes and, in company with Alan Breck Stewart, adventures about the Highlands of Scotland.

Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s): Howard Pyle

A London Garland (1895)

A large collection of verse on the subject of London. Read for free online at HathiTrust.

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): Walter Crane
Arthur Rackham
Et al

Mr. Midshipman Easy (1895)

A young man, who seems very like a fool, is sent to sea and makes good.

Author(s): Frederick Marryat
Illustrator(s): Rufus Fairchild Zogbaum

My Own Fairy Book (1895)

Includes Prince Prigio, Prince Ricardo of Pantouflia and The Gold of Fairnilee. Read online at archive.org.

Old English Fairy Tales (1895)

A collection of the older English fairy tales. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): S. Baring-Gould
Illustrator(s): F. D. Bedford

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