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G. K. Chesterton
The collected poems
London: Burns, Oates & Washbourne, Ltd., 1927
Library no.: D.18.27
Charles Dickens
The haunted man and the ghost’s bargain
London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1907
Library no.: F.5
R. D. Blackmore
Lorna Doone: a romance of Exmoor
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1889
Library no.: F.2
Jane Austen
Love and freindship [sic] and other early works
London: Chatto & Windus, 1922
Library no.: F.1
Thomas Hardy
Tess of the D’Urbervilles: a pure woman faithfully presented
London: Osgood, 1892
Library no.: F.7
William Makepeace Thackeray
Vanity fair
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1877
Library no.: F.13
George Eliot
Middlemarch: a study of provincial life
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, ca. 1890
Library no.: F.5
Thomas Hughes
Tom Brown’s school days: by an old boy
Cambridge: Macmillan and Co, 1862
Library no.: F.7
Rudyard Kipling
‘Captains Courageous’: a story of the Grand Banks
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1897
Library no.: F.8
Captain Marryat
The pirate and the three cutters
London: George Routledge and sons, 1882
Library no.: F.10
R. L. Stevenson
Treasure Island
London: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1886.
Library no.: F.15
Jules Verne
Around the world in eighty days
Birmingham: Holliday, Son & Co., ca. 1880
F.15