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Books in the British genre:

The Wouldbegoods: Being the Further Adventures of the Treasure Seekers (1901)

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After being sent to the country “to learn to be good,” the Bastable children and their two friends form the Society of the Wouldbegoods, but continue to become involved in adventures. Read online at Hathitrust. Or at Archive.org.... View More

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): Arthur H. Buckland
John Hassall
Et al

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The Wouldbegoods: Being the Further Adventures of the Treasure Seekers (1901)

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After being sent to the country “to learn to be good”, the Bastable children and their two friends form the Society of the Wouldbegoods, but continue to become involved in adventures.

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): Reginald Birch

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Dream Days (1902)

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This is the second volume of Kenneth Grahame’s reminiscences of childhood. It includes the well known story of The Reluctant Dragon. The illustrations by Maxfield Parrish were in color and so printed in the periodical printing in The Illustrate... View More

Author(s): Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s): Maxfield Parrish

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Faithful Friends (1902)

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A collection of stories and pictures, which was frequently reprinted. This appears to be the first edition.

Author(s): Anonymous
Illustrator(s): Cecil Aldin
Arthur Rackham
Louis Wain
Et al

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Five Children and It (1902)

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Five children on holiday discover a sand fairy in a local quarry -- and it grants their wishes, with sometimes surprising results. Download our free ebook: EPUB. This is for ebook readers. Click the button, and the ePub file will go to your default ... View More

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): H. R. Millar
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The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902)

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The game is afoot as Holmes tracks down a killer with the assistance of Dr. Watson.

Read online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Illustrator(s): Sidney Paget

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More Tales of the Stumps (1902)

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A collection of cricket tales.

Author(s): Horace Bleackley
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham
Rip

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Mrs. Caudle’s Curtain Lectures and Other Stories and Essays (1902)

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A collection of comic sketches as originally published in Punch. The image above is from the Oxford World’s Classics edition. Read for free online HathiTrust.... View More

Author(s): Douglas Jerrold
Illustrator(s): Richard Doyle
Charles Keene
John Leech

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The Pothunters (1902)

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The sports trophies are missing from the pavilion and Jim Thomson is under suspicion since he did hurl a rock through the window preparatory to his own burglary, which was aimed soley at recovering his notes for an examination scheduled for the next ... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): R. Noel Pocock

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Shooting (1902)

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A volume in the Haddon Hall Library on the pursuit of grouse and pheasant. Only the endpapers are by Rackham. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): Alexander Innes Shand
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham
H. L. Richardson
J. Smit

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Songs of Childhood (1902)

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A collection of poems intended for children. The frontispiece is by Richard Doyle. Read for free online at HathiTrust.... View More

Author(s): Walter de la Mare
Illustrator(s): Richard Doyle

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Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There (1902)

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Alice returns to Wonderland by way of the looking glass over the mantle and meets many queer people, including the Walrus and the Carpenter. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): Lewis Carroll
Illustrator(s): Peter Newell

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The Visit to London (1902)

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Poems and pictures of a visit to London.

Author(s): E. V. Lucas
Illustrator(s): F. D. Bedford

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Barchester Towers (1903)

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An ecclesiastical novel, second in the Barsetshire Chronicles. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): Anthony Trollope
Illustrator(s): L. Leslie Brooke

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Brains and Bravery (1903)

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A collection of fourteen tales of young men exhibiting brains and bravery. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): G. A. Henty
L. T. Meade
Various
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

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Buckinghamshire (1903)

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A “Little Guide” to the English county. Read for free online at HathiTrust.

Author(s): E. S. Roscoe
Illustrator(s): F. D. Bedford

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Farming (1903)

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Part of the Haddon Hall Library for gentlemen farmers, the end papers head and tail pieces are by Rackham. Read for free online at HathiTrust.... View More

Author(s): W. M. Tod
Illustrator(s): L. Kemp-Welch
Arthur Rackham

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The Grey House on the Hill (1903)

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A young boy is falsely accused of theft and banished to the work house by an unforgiving master.

Author(s): The Hon. Mrs. Greene
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

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The Hunting of the Snark and Other Poems (1903)

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Includes The Hunting of the Snark and poems from Rhyme? and Reason?, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, and Sylvie and Bruno. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): Lewis Carroll
Illustrator(s): Peter Newell
Robert Murray Wright

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Kent (1903)

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A visitor’s guide to the English county of Kent. Read for free online at HathiTrust.

Author(s): George Clinch
Illustrator(s): F. D. Bedford

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