Jules Verne:Every Boy's Magazine / Every Boy's Annual

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Routledge's
Every Boy's Magazine / Every Boy's Annual
The Boy's Playtime Book (U.S. edition)
published by George Routledge and Sons,
edited by Edmund Routledge

Published from 18xx to 1865 by Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, and from 1866 to 189? by George Routledge and Sons.

Every Boy's Annual accumulates the previous years weekly or monthly issues of:

Every Boy's Magazine: 1863-1865
Routledge's Magazine for Boys: 1866-1869
The Young Gentleman's Magazine: 1870-1874
Every Boy's Magazine: 1875 to 1889

The Annual was published in the month of December for the Christmas market, and thus does not include that Decembers issues in its compilation. i.e. the Annual dated 1885, has been seen with a "Xmas 1884" inscription, and thus contained magazines original published from Dec 1883 to November 1884. This fact makes many of the Jules Verne Stories published, the first time they were seen in English, preceding the book form.

Along with stories by Jules Verne, the Annuals contain stories written by Henry Frith (1881), William H G Kingston (1866), R M Ballantyne (1866), Arthur Locker (1870), Thomas Miller (1869), etc.....

Above: 1886 - Keraban, Part 2 (2 variants)

Publisher Address in 1864:
Routledge, Warne, & Routledge
London: Farringdon Street
New York: 56, Walker Street

Publisher Address in 1866:
George Routledge and Sons,
London: The Broadway, Ludgate Hill,
New York: 129, Grand Street

Publisher Address in 1868:
George Routledge and Sons
London: The Broadway, Ludgate
New York: 416, Broome Street

(1865, NO Jules Verne story!)

Routledge's
Every Boy's Annual
An Original Miscellany of
Entertaining Literature

Edited by Edmund Routledge

Original Price (seen in a catalogue), 1876: 6s

**Every Boy's Annual: Jules Verne Story Listing**
Image	Date	Story Title in Every Boy's Magazine / Every Boy's Annual	Common Verne Book Title	Installments
	1874	The English at the North Pole (NOT SEEN)	Adventures of Captain Hatteras
	1875	The Field of Ice - Part 2 - Chapters I to XXVI - with illustrations in Every Boy's Magazine January 1874 to November 1874 (Monthly)	Adventures of Captain Hatteras PH
	1876	A Voyage Round the World: South America - part 1 NOTE: In 1873 Annual of The Young Gentleman's Magazine is an ad for The Children of Captain Grant, A Naval Story with 250 Illustrations, will "commence in the earliest Numbers of this Volume.". Why was it NOT published by Routledge until 1875/76 AND Routledge did NOT use that title!	The Children of Captain Grant PH
	1877	A Voyage Round the World: Australia - part 2	The Children of Captain Grant PH
	1878	A Voyage Round the World: New Zealand - part 3	The Children of Captain Grant PH
	1885	Keraban the Inflexible or, Adventures in the Euxine, Part 1 - Chapters I to XVII	Keraban the Terrible PH AN
	1886	Keraban the Inflexible or, Adventures in the Euxine, Part 2 - Chapters I to XVI	Keraban the Terrible PH AN
It has been verified (using HathisTrust digital copies and other sources) that the following do NOT contain Jules Verne Stories: NO VERNE: 1866, 1867, 1868, 1869, 1870, 1879, 1881 (no index, but looked through!), 1888

There was a US Edition of Every Boy's Annual
called The Boys Playtime Book

The Boy's Playtime Book
US/American Edition!!!!

It has been discovered (June 2026) that there was a United States version of Every Boy's Annual that was called The Boy's Playtime Book.
It was published by George Routledge and Sons, London: Broadway, Ludgate Hill, New York: 9 Lafayette Place.

The Cover AND Title page BOTH say The Boy's Playtime Book showing that though the contents of the volume remain the same, they changed both of these for the US market!

I have not determined which years exist in this U.S. edition, but the 1886 volume has Part 2 of Keraban just like the U.K. edition!

Page 329 - Keraban Part 2

Thank you to Philip Hollaway for finding this!

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Routledge's Every Boy's Annual An Original Miscellany of Entertaining Literature

Edited by Edmund Routledge

Routledge's
Every Boy's Annual
An Original Miscellany of
Entertaining Literature