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Books in the British genre:

Christmas Stories from "Household Words" and "All the Year Round" (1913)

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Twenty stories from periodicals. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s): Edward Dalziel
Et al

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Faithful Friends (1913)

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A collection of stories and pictures, which was frequently reprinted. This later edition had better illustrations.

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

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Ivanhoe (1913)

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A tale of the Saxons and the Normans in the days of Richard the Lion Heart. Read for free online at HathiTrust.

Author(s): Sir Walter Scott
Illustrator(s): E. Boyd Smith

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Kidnapped (1913)

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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. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s): N. C. Wyeth

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Little Lord Fauntleroy (1913)

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When his uncles die, Cedric becomes heir to his grandfather’s estate, and soon takes over the old gentleman’s heart as well. Reginald Birch did a new suite of illustrations for this edition. The scan is of the original edition. Read onlin... View More

Author(s): Frances Hodgson Burnett
Illustrator(s): Reginald Bathurst Birch

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The Seven Champions of Christendom (1913)

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This is a recasting of a famous romance which likely originated in the Middle Ages, telling of the knightly adventures of the seven champions. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): F. J. Harvey Darton
Richard Johnson
Illustrator(s): Norman Ault

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Wet Magic (1913)

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When Francis unwittingly summons a mermaid, she and Mavis, Bernard and Kathleen must rescue it from a sideshow and return it to the sea. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): H. R. Millar

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The Wind in the Willows (1913)

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This is the first fully illustrated edition of Kenneth Grahame’s masterpiece about Toad, Mole, Rat and Badger and the riverside. The British first edition has a different picture on the cover and a colored frontispiece not in the American editi... View More

Author(s): Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s): Paul Bransom

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Wings and the Child: or The Building of Magic Cities (1913)

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Here the author explains her theory of play and the building of play cities and landscapes as in her own novel The Magic City. Read online at Project Gutenberg. Or at Google Books.... View More

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): George Barraud
Photographs

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The Flying Inn (1914)

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As the sign of the crescent ascends over England, the last Inn takes to the road. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): G. K. Chesterton
Illustrator(s): None

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The Intervening Lady (1914)

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We follow the Lady Noggs as she grows up as head of the Grandison family. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): Edgar Jepson
Illustrator(s): Hanson Booth

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The Little Nugget (1914)

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The Little Nugget is Ogden Ford, object of kidnappers employed by his mother, who is divorced from his father, who has also employed kidnappers to keep him away from his mother’s bad influence and then there is White, the school butler who is a... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Will Grefe

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The Little Nugget (1914)

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The Little Nugget is Ogden Ford, object of kidnappers employed by his mother, who is divorced from his father, who has also employed kidnappers to keep him away from his mother’s bad influence and then there is White, the school butler who is a... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Unknown

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The Man Upstairs and Other Stories (1914)

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A collection of short stories that appeared in magazines such as The Strand, Cosmopolitan, and Collier’s. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Unknown

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Pollyooly (1914)

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Pollyooly, the angel child with the red hair, with a three year old brother to support, takes the post of housekeeper to the Hon. John Ruffin, and is soon on the road to independence. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Edgar Jepson
Illustrator(s): Hanson Booth

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Princess Mary’s Gift Book (1914)

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An anthology used as a fundraiser by the British royal family. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): J. M. Barrie
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
H. Rider Haggard
Rudyard Kipling
A. E. W. Mason
Alfred Noyes
Baroness Orczy
Kate Douglas Wiggin
Et al
Illustrator(s): H. M. Brock
Gordon Browne
E. J. Detmold
Edmund Dulac
H. R. Millar
Arthur Rackham
Steven Spurrier
Edmund J. Sullivan
Et al

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The Wisdom of Father Brown (1914)

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The second collection of detective stories about a Catholic priest who is considered one of the high spots of detective fiction. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): G. K. Chesterton
Illustrator(s): Sydney Seymour Lucas

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A Christmas Carol (1915)

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The classic story of the redemption of Ebenezer Scrooge. Read for free online at HathiTrust.

Author(s): Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

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The Golden Age (1915)

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Kenneth Grahame’s first collection of reminiscences of his childhood. This is the second set of illustrations. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s): R. J. Enraght-Moony

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Happy Pollyooly: The Rich Little Poor Girl (1915)

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The further adventures of Pollyooly, the angel child with the red hair. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): Edgar Jepson
Illustrator(s): Reginald Birch

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