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Union Jack Library [#52 v2, April 20, 1895] ed. Anon. (½d, 16pp) 1 • Tracked and Trapped. The story of a manhunt • William Shaw Rae • na; illus. Tom Browne 14 • From Clue to Clue; or, Round the World for a Fortune [Part 2 of ?] • Norman Brood • sl 16 • From the Quarter-Deck • Anon. • ed
Union Jack Library [#53 v3, April 27, 1895] ed. Anon. (½d, 16pp); Contents not known.
Union Jack Library [#54 v3, May 4, 1895] ed. Anon. (½d, 16pp) • The Boy of the ’Betsy’ Brig • William Shaw Rae • na • From Clue to Clue; or, Round the World for a Fortune [Part 4 of x] • Norman Brood • sl
Union Jack Library [#55 v3, May 11, 1895] ed. Anon. (½d, 16pp); Contents not known.
Union Jack Library [#56 v3, May 18, 1895] ed. Anon. (½d, 16pp); Contents not known.
Union Jack Library [#57 v3, May 25, 1895] ed. Anon. (½d, 16pp); Contents not known.
Union Jack Library [#58 v3, June 1, 1895] ed. Anon. (½d, 16pp) • The Marcel Mystery [Sexton Blake] • W. Shaw Rae • na • From Clue to Clue; or, Round the World for a Fortune [Part 8 of x] • Norman Brood • sl
Union Jack Library [#59 v3, June 8, 1895] ed. Anon. (½d, 16pp) • Under the Scarlet Flag • Alec G. Pearson • na • From Clue to Clue; or, Round the World for a Fortune [Part 9 of x] • Norman Brood • sl
Union Jack Library [#60 v3, June 15, 1895] ed. Anon. (½d, 16pp); Contents not known.
Union Jack Library [#61 v3, June 22, 1895] ed. Anon. (½d, 16pp); Contents not known.
Union Jack Library [#62 v3, June 29, 1895] ed. Anon. (½d, 16pp) • A Clue from the Deep [by William Shaw Rae; Sexton Blake] • Sexton Blake • na • From Clue to Clue; or, Round the World for a Fortune [Part 10 of x] • Norman Brood • sl
Union Jack Library [#63 v3, July 6, 1895] ed. Anon. (½d, 16pp); Contents not known.
Union Jack Library [#64 v3, July 13, 1895] ed. Anon. (½d, 16pp); Contents not known.
Union Jack Library [#65 v3, July 20, 1895] ed. Anon. (½d, 16pp) • Sexton Blake’s Stratagem [Sexton Blake] • W. Shaw Rae • na • From Clue to Clue; or, Round the World for a Fortune [Part 13 of x] • Norman Brood • sl
Union Jack Library [#66 v3, July 27, 1895] ed. Anon. (½d, 16pp); Contents not known.
Union Jack Library [#67 v3, August 3, 1895] ed. Anon. (½d, 16pp); Contents not known.
Union Jack Library [#68 v3, August 10, 1895] ed. Anon. (½d, 16pp); Contents not known.
Union Jack Library [#69 v3, August 17, 1895] ed. Anon. (½d, 16pp) • Nalda the Nihilist; or, Sexton Blake in Russia [by W. J. Lomax; Sexton Blake] • Anon. • na • From Clue to Clue; or, Round the World for a Fortune [Part 17 of x] • Norman Brood • sl
Union Jack Library [#70 v3, August 24, 1895] ed. Anon. (½d, 16pp); Contents not known.
Union Jack Library [#71 v3, August 31, 1895] ed. Anon. (½d, 16pp); Contents not known.
Union Jack Library [#72 v3, September 7, 1895] ed. Anon. (½d, 16pp) • The Clue of the Dead Eyes [Sexton Blake] • Arnold Grahame • na
Union Jack Library [#73 v3, September 14, 1895] ed. Anon. (½d, 16pp); Contents not known.
Union Jack Library [#74 v3, September 21, 1895] ed. Anon. (½d, 16pp); Contents not known.
Union Jack Library [#75 v3, September 28, 1895] ed. Anon. (½d, 16pp) • Tracked to the Death Valley [Sexton Blake] • Melton Whyte • na
The Vanguard Library ; One of the most noted of Trapps Holmes titles, The Vanguard Library was published every Tuesday and ran to 152 issues in total between May 1907 and April 1910. In December 1909, the title changed format from a Magnet-sized weekly and announced in issue 137 that the following week the paper would become the Vanguard Library of Football, Sport and Adventure; however, the following issue remains untraced and may not have appeared. The following week’s issue — #139 — was published as normal and the new title continued to appear until issue 153 in a larger size. The editor, at least in the latter stages, was the writer Henry T. Johnson. The Vanguard Library has been one of the most intriguing to collectors as it contained a large number of Charles Hamilton stories during a period when he was heavily involved in the launch of both The Gem and The Magnet. Hamilton wrote of various schools, including Northcote, Norchester, Larkshall College, St. Kate’s, Redclyffe and various others; towards the end of the original run, between September and November 1909, Hamilton was responsible for the bulk of the contents under various pen-names, including Gillingham Jones, Ridley Redway, Robert Stanley and a number of anonymous yarns. In earlier issues he also wrote as Roland Rodway, Cecil Herbert, Eric Stanhope, Gordon Conway and contrinued his St. Kate’s yarns under the name Frank Drake.
The most intriguing aspect of the Vanguard Library are the stories written by H. Philpott Wright featuring the boys of Blackminster school, and starring Taffy Llewellyn, although most of the attention to the series was because of a boy by the name of Billy Bunter. Whether this inspired Hamilton when he came to name the Fat Owl of the Remove of Greyfriars is unlikely to ever be known for sure; Hamilton later claimed he had used the Bunter name in a rejected story as far back as 1899, and had kept it in mind, to be revived when he started writing the Greyfriars yarns in 1908 (he certainly recycled names endlessly; most of the boys’ names were used time and time again, and even Greyfriars School had been used before in Smiles, another Trapps Holmes paper, in 1907).
Taffy Llewellyn, meanwhile, left Blackminster school and teamed up with a detective during which phase one of his stories was credited to Captain Addison, who was concurrently writing another detective series starring Jubal Grail. Since Wright was the pen-name of J. Weedon Birch, who later started his own publishing ventures and became a shareholder of the Aldine Publishing Co., it may be possible that Addison was also his pen-name. For some unknown reason, Birch, by far the most prolific contributor, stopped writing for Vanguard in late 1909, and the mantle was picked up by Charles Hamilton, later handing over to Stephen H. Agnew.
The Vanguard Library [#1, May 4, 1907] ed. Anon. (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) • The New Boy at Northcote [Northcote] • Charles Hamilton • nv
The Vanguard Library [#2, May 11, 1907] ed. Anon. (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) • Paul Pinkerton • Lucas O’Neill • nv
The Vanguard Library [#3, May 18, 1907] ed. Anon. (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) • Saved from Ruin • Roland Rodway • nv
The Vanguard Library [#4, May 25, 1907] ed. Anon. (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) • Darrell Yorke: Detective [Darrell Yorke] • Arthur St. John • nv
The Vanguard Library [#5, June 1, 1907] ed. Anon. (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) • The Star of the Ring [Curly Kit] • Cecil Herbert • nv
The Vanguard Library [#6, June 8, 1907] ed. Anon. (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) • Boys of Fellingham • John G. Rowe • nv
The Vanguard Library [#7, June 15, 1907] ed. Anon. (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) • Plucky Jim Stanhope [Northcote] • Charles Hamilton • nv
The Vanguard Library [#8, June 22, 1907] ed. Anon. (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) • Midshipman Dick • Eric Stanhope • nv
The Vanguard Library [#9, June 29, 1907] ed. Anon. (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) • Taffy Llewellyn’s Schooldays [Taffy Llewellyn] • H. Philpott Wright • nv
The Vanguard Library [#10, July 6, 1907] ed. Anon. (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) • Fighting the Flames • John G. Rowe • nv
The Vanguard Library [#11, July 13, 1907] ed. Anon. (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) • Darrell Yorke’s Dilemma [Darrell Yorke] • Arthur St. John • nv
The Vanguard Library [#12, July 20, 1907] ed. Anon. (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) • Comrades of the Circus [Curly Kit] • Cecil Herbert • nv
The Vanguard Library [#13, July 27, 1907] ed. Anon. (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) • High Jinks at Larkshall • Gordon Conway • nv
The Vanguard Library [#14, August 3, 1907] ed. Anon. (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) • Siege of the Lighthouse • John G. Rowe • nv
The Vanguard Library [#15, August 10, 1907] ed. Anon. (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) • Strange Happening at Highcliff School • H. Philpott Wright • nv
The Vanguard Library [#16, August 17, 1907] ed. Anon. (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) • The House by the School • A. M. Burrage • nv
The Vanguard Library [#17, August 24, 1907] ed. Anon. (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) • From Clue to Capture [Darrell Yorke] • Arthur St. John • nv
The Vanguard Library [#18, August 31, 1907] ed. Anon. (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) • The Secret Six [Taffy Llewellyn] • H. Philpott Wright • nv
The Vanguard Library [#19, September 7, 1907] ed. Anon. (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) • The Fourth Form at Northcote [Northcote] • Charles Hamilton • nv
The Vanguard Library [#20, September 14, 1907] ed. Anon. (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) • The Broadmere School Mystery • Albert W. Bradley • nv
The Vanguard Library [#21, September 21, 1907] ed. Anon. (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) • Darrell Yorke in Danger [Darrell Yorke] • Arthur St. John • nv
The Vanguard Library [#22, September 28, 1907] ed. Anon. (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) • The House of Mystery • H. Philpott Wright • nv
The Vanguard Library [#23, October 5, 1907] ed. Anon. (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) • Two Merry Middies • Eric Stanhope • nv
The Vanguard Library [#24, October 12, 1907] ed. Anon. (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) • The Boy from Colorado [Taffy Llewellyn] • H. Philpott Wright • nv
The Vanguard Library [#25, October 19, 1907] ed. Anon. (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) • Tracked in the Bush • Cecil Herbert • nv
The Vanguard Library [#26, October 26, 1907] ed. Anon. (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) • Bowled Out [Taffy Llewellyn] • H. Philpott Wright • nv
The Vanguard Library [#27, November 2, 1907] ed. Anon. (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) • The Lion King’s Secret • John G. Rowe • nv
The Vanguard Library [#28, November 9, 1907] ed. Anon. (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) • Billy Bunter’s Hamper [Taffy Llewellyn] • H. Philpott Wright • nv
The Vanguard Library [#29, November 16, 1907] ed. Anon. (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) • ’Tween Earth and Sky • John G. Rowe • nv
The Vanguard Library [#30, November 23, 1907] ed. Anon. (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) • Banbury of the Sixth [Taffy Llewellyn] • H. Philpott Wright • nv
The Vanguard Library [#31, November 30, 1907] ed. Anon. (Trapps Holmes, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles); Xmas Double No. • Christmas at St. Freda’s [St. Freda’s] • Charles Hamilton • nv • Secret Foes • H. Philpott Wright • nv
The Vanguard Library [#32, December 7, 1907] ed. Anon. (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) • Taffy Llewellyn’s Christmas [Taffy Llewellyn] • H. Philpott Wright • nv
The Vanguard Library [#33, December 14, 1907] ed. Anon. (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) • The Chums of St. Kate’s [St. Kate’s] • Charles Hamilton • nv
The Vanguard Library [#34, December 21, 1907] ed. Anon. (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) • The Castel Vaults • A. M. Burrage • nv
The Vanguard Library [#35, December 28, 1907] ed. Anon. (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) • The Aerial War • John G. Rowe • nv
The Vanguard Library [#36, January 4, 1908] ed. Anon. (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) • The Barring-Out at Blackminster [Taffy Llewellyn] • H. Philpott Wright • nv
The Vanguard Library [#37, January 11, 1908] ed. Anon. (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) • A Fight for a Fortune • H. Philpott Wright • nv
The Vanguard Library [#38, January 18, 1908] ed. Anon. (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) • A Bully’s Revenge [Taffy Llewellyn] • H. Philpott Wright • nv
The Vanguard Library [#39, January 25, 1908] ed. Anon. (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) • The Prefect’s Secret [St. Kate’s] • Charles Hamilton • nv
The Vanguard Library [#40, February 1, 1908] ed. Anon. (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) • The Black Tiger Tamer • John G. Rowe • nv
The Vanguard Library [#41, February 8, 1908] ed. Anon. (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) • The Black of Blackminster [Taffy Llewellyn] • H. Philpott Wright • nv
The Vanguard Library [#42, February 15, 1908] ed. Anon. (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) • Who Shall Be Captain? [St. Kate’s] • Charles Hamilton • nv
The Vanguard Library [#43, February 22, 1908] ed. Anon. (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) • The Schoolboy Professionals • A. M. Burrage • nv
The Vanguard Library [#44, February 29, 1908] ed. Anon. (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) • The College Gazette [Taffy Llewellyn] • H. Philpott Wright • nv
The Vanguard Library [#45, March 7, 1908] ed. Anon. (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) • The Rock-Bound Island • H. Philpott Wright • nv
The Vanguard Library [#46, March 14, 1908] ed. Anon. (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) • The Rival Societies [Taffy Llewellyn] • H. Philpott Wright • nv
The Vanguard Library [#47, March 21, 1908] ed. Anon. (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) • The New Boy at Tomkinson’s [Tomkinson’s] • Stephen H. Agnew • nv
The Vanguard Library [#48, March 28, 1908] ed. Anon. (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) • Pankick’s Motor-car [Taffy Llewellyn] • H. Philpott Wright • nv
The Vanguard Library [#49, April 4, 1908] ed. Anon. (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) • The Captain of St. Kate’s [St. Kate’s] • Charles Hamilton • nv
The Vanguard Library [#50, April 11, 1908] ed. Anon. (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) • Dickenson’s Diary [Taffy Llewellyn] • H. Philpott Wright • nv
The Vanguard Library [#51, April 18, 1908] ed. Anon. (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) • College and Town [Taffy Llewellyn] • H. Philpott Wright • nv
The Vanguard Library [#52, April 25, 1908] ed. Anon. (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) • The Secret of the Schoolhouse • Stephen H. Agnew • nv
The Vanguard Library [#53, May 2, 1908] ed. Anon. (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) • Up the River [Taffy Llewellyn] • H. Philpott Wright • nv
The Vanguard Library [#54, May 9, 1908] ed. Anon. (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) • The Chums of Hawkesley Hall • Anon. • nv
The Vanguard Library [#55, May 16, 1908] ed. Anon. (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) • A Fortnight’s Holiday [Taffy Llewellyn] • H. Philpott Wright • nv
The Vanguard Library [#56, May 23, 1908] ed. Anon. (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) • Plummy’s Play [Taffy Llewellyn] • H. Philpott Wright • nv

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