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Illustrations figure 1. Advertisement from American Literary Gazette, 1863   21 figure 2. “Jo in a Vortex’’ (Roberts Bros. ad)   47 figure 3.  Lee & Shepard ads for Mrs. Leslie’s series for girls and for boys   54–55 figure 4. “The Bookstore Annoyance,’’ The Gilded Age   97 figure 5. Seaside Library, vol. 1, no. 1   113 figure 6.  Middlemarch, Seaside Library, Pocket Edition (cover)   121 figure 7.  Advertisements from Seaside Library no. 866 (1866)   127 figure 8.  Lee & Shepard advertised list, 1876   138 figure 9.  A Garland for Girls (cover)   162 figure 10.  A Garland for Girls frontispiece   163 figure 11.  The Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson, Blue and Gold Edition (cover)   167 figure 12.  The Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson, Blue and Gold Edition (frontispiece)   168 figure 13.  The Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson, Blue and Gold Edition (interior)   177 figure 14.  Wanda, Seaside Library, Pocket Edition (cover)   184 figure 15.  Seaside Library, Wanda (title)   185 figure 16.  Seaside Library, Wanda (interior)   186 ...

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