MS-193A
LITTLE LEATHER LIBRARY ADDITIONAL COLLECTION
INTRODUCTION
The Little Leather Library Additional Collection was accessioned into the Piqua Public Library Archives and Special Collections in April, 2010 as a donation from Jim and Mary Jo Rossiter. The collection consists of twenty-six Type-IV Little Leather Library books. Type IV was published from the early 1920’s to mid-1924 and had a fake embossed leather cover which was green in color. The “Little Leather Library” logo was embossed on the back cover along with “Redcroft Edition”. The collection is housed in a single Hollinger box with twenty-five files. Since the Little Leather Library published literature that had already come into the public domain and since the Little Leather Library ceased publication by c. 1930 there are no restrictions, literary or otherwise, on the use of these materials.
SCOPE AND CONTENT
The Little Leather Library Additional Collection is divided into the following five series:
SERIES I: Speeches and Letters (Box 1, Files 1 & 2)
SERIES II: Essays (Box 1, Files 3 & 4)
SERIES III: Poetry (Box 1, Files 5 – 18)
SERIES IV: Plays / Drama (Box 1, Files 19 – 21)
SERIES V: Prose Fiction (Box 1, Files 22-26)
BOX INVENTORY
SERIES I: Speeches and Letters
BOX 1
File
1 Speeches and Letters of George Washington
2 Speeches and Addresses of Abraham Lincoln
SERIES II: Essays
3 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, Essays
4 Thoreau, Henry David, Friendship and Other Essays
SERIES III: Poetry
5 Fifty Best Poems of America
6 Fifty Best Poems of England
7 Browning, Robert, Poems and Plays
8 Burns, Robert, Poems and Songs
9 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems
10 Fitzgerald, Edward, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
11 Gilbert, W. S., The “Bab” Ballads
12 Kipling, Rudyard, Barrack Room Ballads
13 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, The Courtship of Miles Standish
14 Macallay, Thomas Babington, Lays of Ancient Rome
15 Stevenson, Robert Louis, A Child’s Garden of Verses
16 Tennyson, Alfred Lord, Enoch Arden and Other Poems
17 Tennyson, Alfred Lord, The Coming of Arthur
18 Wilde, Oscar, The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems
SERIES IV: Plays / Drama
19 Shakespeare, William, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
20 Shakespeare, William, The Tempest
21 Wilde, Oscar, Salome, A Tragedy in One Act
SERIES V: Prose Fiction
22 Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, Tales of Sherlock Holmes
23 Hale, Edward Everett, The Man Without A Country
24 Poe, Edgar Allan, The Gold Bug
25 Schreiner, Olive, Dreams
26 Stevenson, Robert Louis, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde