c1930 A Collection of Adventure Novels from The Religious Tract Society

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Colour Plates, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

Nine volumes. A collection of adventure and travel novels from The Religious Tract Society, a British evangelical Christian organization founded in 1799 and known for publishing a variety of popular religious and quasi-religious texts in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The society engaged in charity as well as commercial enterprise, publishing books and periodicals for profit. This set contains: The Wonderland of Egypt, c1915. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, two colour plates, thirty black-and-white images across sixteen plates, and ten in-text images. Collated complete. Written by Percy R. almon, an English author and editor. A Congo Pathfinder, c1914. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, two colour plates, and twenty-one black-and-white images across sixteen plates. Collated complete. Written by John H. Weeks, a prolific British novelist and journalist. A Dog With a Bad Name, c1920. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and five black-and-white plates. Collated complete. Written by Talbot Baines Reed, an English writer of boys' fiction who established a genre of school stories that endured into the mid-twentieth century. Saxby: A Tale of Old and New England, c1911. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and four black-and-white plates. Collated complete. Written by Emma Leslie, the pseudonym of Emma Boultwood, an English writer of children's books and historical fiction. Her Own Way, c1900. Illustrated with a black-and-white frontispiece and one plate. Collated complete. Written by Eglanton Thorne, a prolific English writer of historical fiction. In the Hollow of His Hand, c1897. Illustrated with a black-and-white frontispiece and two plates. Collated complete. Written by Hesba Stretton, the pseudonym of Sarah Smith, an evangelical English author of religious books for children. Dandy Blue, or, Robin's Knight-Errant, c1901. Illustrated with a black-and-white frontispiece, one plate, and numerous in-text images. Collated complete. Written by Emily Brodie, an English author. The Mine Detector: A Tale of the East Coast, c1916. Illustrated with a black-and-white frontispiece. Written by Frank Elias, a British author of biographies and stories for boys. An Old Sailor's Story, c1880. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and two black-and-white plates. Collated complete. Written by George E. Sargent, an English author who contributed to numerous religious magazines. Publisher's advertisements to the rear of most volumes.