Folio books favorite series#
Jane Austen novels set - with Joan Hassall engravings (must be the first printing where each volume has differently coloured boards)ĭickens set - the first Folio edition illustrated by Charles Keeping (again each volume with differently coloured boards)Īubrey-Maturin series - great bindings, wonderful illustrations Ulysses & Finnegans Wake - with John Vernon Lord's exquisite illustrations The Malay Archipelago - beautiful all roundĭr Zhivago - the latest edition with Leonid Pasternak's paintings (a real coup by Folio here and fair value at £80 compared to other titles)
Japanese Tales - gorgeous binding and illustrations
The Yangtze Valley and Beyond - absolutely stunning edition, publishing perfection If I could only keep a dozen Folios, and standard/non-limited editions at that, upon waking from my electro-convulsive therapy I'd probably keep: I have not changed my mind with regard to any of the books recommended in my earlier list from 2015. With regard to your question, I consider ALL of the books in the two lists as "must buys" for the avid Folio Society book collector, albeit for different reasons. However, the list given above in >19 dlphcoracl: gives much greater emphasis to The Arts of the Book - those books with superb illustrations, beautiful book design and higher quality of materials and workmanship. The earlier list from August 31, 2015, highlights what I believed were the most interesting of the FS titles in my collection from an intellectual and reading interest point of view, books that were inspired selections by the FS. You do raise an interesting point and there IS a distinct difference in the overall guiding philosophy behind each of the two lists. In looking over my previous list, however, there are several glaring omissions that SHOULD have been included in >19 dlphcoracl: above and I have added them. I revisited my earlier list and please note that it was posted over six years ago!! Since then, the FS has published hundreds of books and many have been superb. Good value too: one of the cheaper Fairy Books bought me half a dozen or more of these. I have a particular and growing penchant for the various memoir type productions that FS used to have one of their mainstays old fashioned, so uncool, but delightful. The Pepys diaries were the only LE I kept, so they could probably be included too! + Shackleton's Boat Journey by Frank Worsley + 18th century memoirs series, especially the Gilbert White + The Yangtze River and Beyond by Isabella Bird (Rockies up there too) + The History of British Birds by Thomas Bewick (possibly my no. + The Dickens set illustrated by Charles Keeping ( Dickens 2, with illustrated covers) + The Jane Austen set illustrated by Joan Hassall ( definitely not the others!) Having whittled a collection of just under 1000 volumes down to just over 300, I would say that they're all pretty much favourites, otherwise I wouldn't have kept them! However my favouritest favourites would include:
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