Macmillan & Co., Ltd. (London, UK)
Series Dates: 1928-1944
Size: 4.5″ x 7″
Macmillan’s Caravan Library series was first advertised in the Times Literary Supplement on Mar. 29, 1928, and last advertised in the TLS on Dec. 24, 1938, when the series consisted of “Some 60 Titles.” A few reprints appear through the 1940s. In all, I can find 67 titles in the series most if not all from Macmillan’s back catalog.
At least two dust jacket variations exist (below); I believe the red style jacket is earlier than the green style jacket.
A list of select titles from the jacket flaps and back cover:
A 1935 reprinting (1929 first printing in series) of Sir John Fortescue’s The Story of a Red Deer is among the later reprints in the series, and the titles on the jacket differ a bit from earlier jackets. At this time it is likely that certain titles had gone out of print. The price has dropped from 3/6 on earlier jackets.
67 series titles are listed below. I indicate the first time the title was advertised in the Times Literary Supplement (TLS), although this does not necessarily indicate the actual year of publication (only that the title was in the series at that date).
JAMES LANE ALLEN
The Choir Invisible. (first advertised in TLS, July 19, 1928)
A Kentucky Cardinal and Aftermath. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. (first advertised in TLS, July 19, 1928)
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Essays in Criticism – First Series. (first advertised in TLS, July 19, 1928)
Essays in Criticism – Second Series. (first advertised in TLS, July 19, 1928)
LORD AVEBURY
The Pleasures of Life.
The Use of Life.
The Beauties of Nature. (first advertised in TLS, June 5, 1930)
STELLA BENSON
The Little World. (first advertised in TLS, March 29, 1928)
Pipers and a Dancer.
I Pose. (first advertised June 5, 1930)
The Poor Man.
Goodbye, Stranger.
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD
The Human Chord. (first advertised in TLS, July 19, 1928)
Jimbo. (first advertised in TLS, June 5, 1930)
The Education of Uncle Paul.
A Prisoner in Fairyland. (first advertised in TLS, July 19, 1928)
DR. BERNARD BOSANQUET
What Religion Is.
STOPFORD BROOKE
English Literature – New Edition (1925). (first advertised in TLS, July 19, 1928)
WINSTON CHURCHILL
Richard Carvel. (first advertised in TLS, July 19, 1928)
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Sybil. (first advertised in TLS, June 5, 1930)
“ELIZABETH”
Elizabeth and her German Garden. (first advertised in TLS, March 29, 1928)
The Caravaners. (first advertised in TLS, March 29, 1928)
The Enchanted April. (first advertised in TLS, March 29, 1928)
SIR JOHN FORTESCUE
*The Story of a Red-Deer.
SIR W.S. GILBERT
Selected Operas-First Series. (first advertised in TLS, July 19, 1928)
Selected Operas-Second Series. (first advertised in TLS, July 19, 1928)
H. FIELDING HALL
The Soul of a People. (first advertised in TLS, March 29, 1928)
P.G. HAMERTON
Human Intercourse. (first advertised in TLS, July 19, 1928)
The Intellectual Life.
MAURICE HEWLETT
The Forest Lovers. (first advertised in TLS, July 19, 1928)
Richard Yea-and-Nay. (first advertised in TLS, July 19, 1928)
REV. C. SYLVESTER HORNE
David Livingstone (Illustrated). (first advertised in TLS, June 5, 1930)
A. & E. KEARY
The Heroes of Asgard.
RUDYARD KIPLING
A Kipling Anthology – Prose. (first advertised in TLS, July 19, 1928)
J. LOCKWOOD KIPLING
Beast and Man in India. (first advertised in TLS, July 19, 1928)
CHARLES MORGAN
Portrait in a Mirror.
LORD MORLEY
On Compromise. (first advertised in TLS, March 29, 1928)
SEAN O’CASEY
Juno and the Paycock. (first advertised in TLS, March 29, 1928)
MRS. OLIPHANT
A Beleaguered City. (first advertised in TLS, June 5, 1930)
WALTER PATER
The Renaissance. (first advertised in TLS, March 29, 1928)
Marius the Epicurean. (first advertised in TLS, March 29, 1928)
Imaginary Portraits. (first advertised in TLS, March 29, 1928)
Appreciations. (first advertised in TLS, March 29, 1928)
Plato and Platonism. (first advertised in TLS, March 29, 1928)
Greek Studies. (first advertised in TLS, March 29, 1928)
Miscellaneous Studies. (first advertised in TLS, March 29, 1928)
Lt.-Col. J. H. PATTERSON
The Man-Eaters of Tsavo. (first advertised in TLS, July 19, 1928)
LORD REDESDALE
Tales of Old Japan.
J.R. SEELEY
The Expansion of England.
J. H. SHORTHOUSE
*John lnglesant. (first advertised in TLS, Nov. 20, 1930)
JAMES STEPHENS
The Charwoman’s Daughter. (first advertised in TLS, March 29, 1928)
RABINDRANATH TAGORE
Gitanjali. (first advertised in TLS, March 29, 1928)
The Gardener.
Sadhana.
The Home and the World.
LORD TENNYSON
*Juvenilia and English ldyls. (first advertised in TLS, July 19, 1928)
*In Memoriam, Maud, Etc. (first advertised in TLS, July 19, 1928)
*Ballads, Etc. (first advertised in TLS, July 19, 1928)
*Idylls of the King. (first advertised in TLS, July 19, 1928)
*Dramas. (first advertised in TLS, July 19, 1928)
EDWARD THOMPSON
These Men, Thy Friends.
In Araby Orion.
The Thracian Stranger and Other Poems.
Plays and Pageants.
Krishna Kumari. A Drama.
OWEN WISTER
The Virginian. (first advertised in TLS, March 29, 1928)
A Straight Deal. (first advertised in TLS, March 29, 1928)
The binding for The Story of a Red Deer is blue cloth, with fewer decorations than earlier books.
Frontispiece and title page. The date is indicated on the title page and on the copyright page (1935).
