Books for Boys: Taj/Onion Dome - Monkey/Jungle - Big ShipThis Series of books were produced by Sampson Low from the around 1914 into the 1930`s.
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Three different cover designs look this this: |
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Taj / Onion Dome | Monkey / Jungle | Big Ship | ||
The Colour and Plain Outline styles, look like this: |
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Colour - Taj | Colour - Monkey | Colour - Big Ship |
Plain - Taj | Plain - Monkey | Plain - Big Ship |
FULL List of Titles for each of the Colour Cover designs
*** These Sampson Low COLOUR covers were ONLY used for Jules Verne titles!!! *** |
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COLOUR Taj/Onion Dome |
COLOUR Monkey/Jungle |
COLOUR Big Ship |
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The earliest Colour covers had the Title on the Spine in Gilt. These date from 1914/1915. Research: A Colour-Taj Five Weeks, with Black lettered spine Title, has a catalogue in the rear, with an ad saying "Jeffrey Farnol's new Novel will be entitled Beltane the Smith and may be expected in the Autumn". With some digging, Philip Hollaway has found this book was released in August 1915, SO the Black Lettered Five Weeks Spine was published at least before that, AND thus we can assume that the Gilt lettered Five Weeks spine was discontinued before that!, thus the estimate of 1914/1915 for the Gilt lettered spines! ALSO a Colour-Big Ship Abandoned, has a Gilt lettered spine, and the book is inscribed 1915. Examples: The Gilt lettered Spine Titles include:
The Black lettered Title spines would date from 1915 onwards. Examples: |
At the moment (May 2023),
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Colour "any" design | Outline Taj | Outline Monkey | Outline Big Ship | |
Clipper of the Clouds | ||||
Secret of the Island | ||||
The Vanished Diamond | ||||
Jump to a chart of ALL KNOWN Covers in these 3 series. |
The EIGHT images on the Spines of the Colour Covers | |||||||
Balloon | Taj | Castle | Tree | Tiger | Polar Bear | Ship | Cannon/Moon |
Castle | Tree | Tiger | Ship |
Spine Image usage for Colour Cover Designs | |
Spine Image | Titles with that Corresponding Spine Image |
Balloon |
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Taj |
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Castle |
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Tree |
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Tiger |
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Polar Bear |
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Ship |
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Cannon/Moon |
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NO Colour Cover seen for these Titles |
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