My Honey:

[no author]:  My Honey. by the author of "Tip Cat," "Miss Toosey's Mission," "Laddie," etc.  London, Melbourne, & Toronto:  Ward, Lock, & Co., 1910,     352 p. frontis by Sidney Cowell   

binding:  green, stamped and gold embossed,  a lamp on a lamp stand, deco in style

lists The "Tip-Cat" Series:  1.  Tip-Cat by the author of "Laddie"  2.  Dear. by the author of "Laddie"  3.  Pen by the author of "Laddie"   4.  My Honey by the author of "Laddie"    5.  Rob by the author of "Laddie"  6.  Lil by the author of "Laddie"   7.  Our Little Ann   by the author of "Laddie"    8.  Laddie, etc. by the author of "Tip-Cat"9.  Captain of Five   H.Debenham  10. Hollyberry Janet M. Symington 11. The Nidding Nod   H. Escott-Inman  12. Faithful  by the author of "Laddie"

 

[no author]:  My Honey. by the author of "Tip Cat," "Miss Toosey's Mission," "Laddie," etc.   London:  Macmillan and Co., 1895 354 p.  Macmillan's Colonial Library No. 231.  This edition intended for circulation only in India and the British Colonies.  printed by William Clowes and Sons, Ltd London & Beccles. 

binding: dark blue, gold embossed title on spine, (tiny chip to binding on top of spine"   This book bears the bookplate of the publisher, Frederick Macmillan.  [It arrived redolent with the scent of good  pipe tobacco.  kcp]

8 pg. publisher's advertisement:

Catalogue of Macmillan's Colonial Library of Copyright  Books for circulation only in India and The Colonies.  Authors include:  Amiel, Henri-Frederic;     Amyand, Arthur; Arnold, Matthew;    Barker, Lady  (New Zealand & South Africa); Blennerhassett, Rose A. & Sleeman, Lucy (Mashonaland) 2 hospital nurses; Bolderwood, Rolf (8 novels);  Carmathen, Marchioness of;   Chalmers, James; Clifford, Mrs. W.K.; Conway, Hugh (3 novels); Cooper, E.H; Corbett, Julian (2 novels);  Craik, Mrs. (3 novels);  Crawford, F. Marian (22 novels) "With the solitary exception of Mrs. Oliphant, we  have no living novelist more distinguished for variety of theme and range of imaginative outlook  than Mr. Marion Crawford."  Spectator; Crockett, S.R.; Cromarty, Deas; Cunningham, Sir H.S.(4 novels);  Deussen, Karl;  Dickens, Mary A. (3 novels);     Dilke, Sir C. and Wilkinson, S.;  Dillwyn, E.A. (2 novels);   Du Marier, George;   Durand, Sir Mortimer; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (2 volumes);  Falconer, Lance;  Farrar, Venerable F.W.;  Forbes, Archibald (2 volumes);  Forbes-Mitchell, William (93^rd Sutherland Highlanders);  Fothergill, Jessie;  Francis, M.E.;  Francis, F (2 novels);  Graham, J.W.;    Hammerton, P.G. (3 vols); Hardy, Thomas (15 novels);  Harmonia by the author of "Estelle Russell";  Harrison, Joanna; Harrison, Frederick; Harte, Bret (6 novels); Holroyd, Caroline C.;  Hope, Anthony;   Hughes,  (Tom Brown's School Days);    Hutchinson, H.G. (3 novels);  James, Henry (4 novels); Jennings, L.J.; Keary, Annie;   Keene, H.G. (India);    Kingsley, Charles (6 volumes);  Lafargue, Philip (2 novels);  Lawless, Hon. Emily; Le Voleur; Levy, Amy; Lysaght, S.R.;  Lytton, Lord; Madoc, Fayr;  Malet, Lucas; Martineau, Harriet;  Mathers, Helen;  Minto, Wm.;  Mitford, A.B. (Japan); Moore, F.; Morley, John;  Murray, D. Christie (5 novels) referred to as Mr. Murray; D. & Herman  Henry; Nevinson, H.W.(2 novels); Noel, Lady Augusta; Norris, W.E.;   Oliphant, Mrs. (12 novels +Literary History of England);   Parkin, G.R. (2 volumes);   Parry, Major Gambier; Patterson, Arthur; Price, Eleanor C.;   Price, Richard;  Pryce, R.  (The Burden of a Woman); Realmah by the author of "Friends in Council";  Rhoades, W.C.; Ritchie, Mrs. (2 vols:  Tennyson, Ruskin, & Browning);  Roy, Neil;  Russell, W. Clark (2 sea stories);  Seeley, J.R.; Shipton, Helen;   Shorthouse, J.H. (4 novels);  Snaith, J.C.;  Spender, Mrs. J.K.; St. Johnston, Alfred (2 vols.); Steel, Mrs. (3 novels  India); Theodoli, Marchesa;  This Troublesome World   by the authors of "The Medicine Lady";  Tim by a new author; Trevelyan, Sir G.O.; Veley, Margaret; Victor, H.;  Wallace, Alfred Russel (2 volumes); Ward, Mrs. Humphrey (4 novels) "Readers will find thoughts which stimulate and passages which burn... they will find a fearless  grappling with the things that are, treated as only a woman, high-minded and sincere, can treat these  things.  Saturday Review;   West, Mary;  Westbury, Hugh; Westcott, Dr.  Bishop of Durham;  Williams, Montague (3 volumes); Wilson, Mrs. J. G.;  Woods, Margaret L.; Worthey, Mrs.; Yonge, Charlotte M. (10 novels)  "Readers will find in these stories all the  gracefulness, right feeling, and delicate perception  which they have been long accustomed to look for in Miss Yonge's writings."  Guardian;   Yonge, C. M.; & Coleridge, E.R.  other volumes to follow

To be obtained at all Booksellers in India and the British Colonies, and at Railway Bookstalls 20.7.95

 

Our Little Ann:

[no author]:  Our Little Ann. by the author of "Tip Cat," "Miss  Toosey's Mission," and "Laddie."  Boston:  Roberts Brothers, 1886. 276 p.  presswork by John Wilson and Son, University Press   

bookplate: "This book is from the library of Priscilla Galassi" 

binding:  drab green paste board, gold embossed spine, black floral upper left cover with title by the author of Tip Cat.  uniform with my copies of Baby John, and Lil..

publisher ad at front for other uniform titles:  Tip-Cat and Miss Toosey's Mission and Laddie with quotes from reviews.

12 p. publisher ads at back, many with substantial comment:

Mssrs. Roberts Brothers' Announcements and Latest Authors and illustrators mentioned:  Edwin Arnold, Harry Fenn (illus), H. Sandham (illus.), W.A.  Rogers (illus.), F.S. Church (illus.), Wm. St. John Harper (illus.),   W.L. Taylor (illus.), J.A. Fraser (illus.), F.B. Schell (illus.),   Sidney L. Smith (illus.), Charles Copeland (illus.),  George T. Andrew (engraver), Rev. E. E. Hale, Laura E. Richards "happy inspiration" by "the daughter of Mrs. Julia Ward Howe." Edmund H. Garret (illus.), Jean Ingelow, Louisa M. Alcott, Cat Stories by "H. H.",   Frank E.Sanborn, Rev. J.G. Wood,Charles T. Brooks, Honore de Balzac, Memoirs of Karoline Bauer.  (a German actress), Mary Bradley, Dorothy Holroyd (illus.), Philip Garrett Hamilton  (wood cuts),  Susan Coolidge, George Fleming, Helen Jackson ("H. H."), Joseph Henry Allen, illus. Jessie McDermott (illus.), Helen  Campbell,  Juliana Horatia Ewing, Frederick L. Hosmer & William C. Gannett, Mrs. Caroline Healey Dall, Kathleen O'Meara, Prof. Seeley, Edward Everett Hale, Flora L. Shaw