Rollo Series by Jacob Abbott

Published by T. H. Carter & Co.

There were fourteen titles in this series. For more information see: Rollo Series

Carter published three Rollo first editions on its own imprint.

First editions of "Rollo at Play" and "Rollo at School" are shown below.

Cloth. Blindstamped with embossed cover pattern. Gilt cover lettering of the title. 18 mo.

Carter held the 1838 copyright of #6, Rollo's Vacation, which was first published by William Crosby and Company.

By 1840 the first ten Rollo books had been published. Carter already had the copyrights for its Rollo first editions (Books #3-5). It subsequently held the copyrights of books #6-10 published first by William Crosby and Company and later by Weeks and Jordan & Company in 1839 and 1840.

The copyrights for books #7-10 were dated 1839.

Apparently T. Harrington Carter talked Abbott into writing the four Rollo Philosophy books which were published in 1842 and 1843. Hogan and Thompson published the first editions of the four volumes (#11-14 in the series). Carter had the copyrights however.