Publisher's Series
Throughout the years, the Methodist Book Concern published a number of multivolume, multi-author series. Because of their size, some of these series are not detailed on this site. Nonetheless, I have attempted to list many of them here and, if known, show a sample cover. Note that the books in the publisher's series do not indicate what series they are part of.
As early as 1841, G. Lane & P. P. Sandford, publishers for the Methodist Book Concern, were publishing volumes in the "Youth's Library". Subsequently Lane & Tippett and Lane & Scott published the Children's Library Series A and Series B as well the Youth's Library.
Carlton & Phillips also published books in the Youth's Library.
In 1852 there were 325 titles. By 1855 there were 590 titles.
Carlton & Porter
Library A 238 Volumes in 1867
Library B 241 Volumes in 1867
Young People’s Library 29 Volumes 1867
In 1861 it was publishing two twenty volume sets:
Child’s Own Library, No. 1 and No. 2
Carlton & Lanahan
No. 1 Children’s Library 239 titles
No. 2 Children’s Library 252 titles
No. 3 Youth’s Library 739 titles
The three libraries noted above comprise the "Sunday-School Library"
of 1230 titles
Carlton & Lanahan other publisher’s series:
Library A 55 books (Books for Little Children) 48 mo
Library B 9 books (Books for Larger Children) 18 mo. Cloth and paper
Illustrated Series- Square form
Young People's Library
Nelson & Phillips published a set in 1873 called “Our Library”
which contained 55 books from the “Youth’s Library”.
It also published Children’s Library A/B which is the same as No. 1
/No. 2 Children’s Library published by Carlton & Lanahan.
Children’s Library A 239 volumes (The same as No. 1 Children’s
Library published by Carlton & Lanahan.)
Children’s Library B 252 volumes (The same as No. 2 Children’s Library
published by Carlton & Lanahan.)
Youth’s Library 748 volumes
Sunday School Library consists of the 1239 volumes above.
Some of the titles in the previously published Youth’s Library (Carlton & Lanahan) were deleted and substituted with new titles.
Phillips & Hunt
This firm published “Cheap Libraries for Sunday Schools”
Sets 1-5 each had 100 volumes each (1 and 2 were initially called the
“Centennial Libraries”).
#1-4 contained titles originally in the “Youth’s Library”.
#5 contained books which were originally sold as boxed sets.
Set #6 had 50 volumes
This firm also published sets #7, #8 and #13. (25 volumes each)
It continued the publication of the 55 title set - “Our Library”.
By 1886 this outfit was also publishing “Fifty-Volume Libraries’ No. 1, 2 and 3.
Hunt & Eaton
In 1891 this company was publishing Libraries #5, 11-20. It is not
known at this time whether it or Phillips & Hunt ( probably) first
published Libraries #9-12 or whether Hunt & Eaton ever published
#7, #8 #9, and #10.
Libraries #13-16 each contained 25 books and the total of 100 books was also sold as boxed set - Library #5.
Eaton & Mains published Libraries #5, 13-24 in 1898. In 1900 it printed #25 and #26.