Strictly limited, bound to order and never repeated, Folio Society limited editions are outstanding works of literary or historical significance reproduced as works of art in their own right.
They can almost invariably be found for sale on the open market at considerably more than their published price, reflecting their exceptional production and editorial standards.
T. S. Eliot considered the Aeneid to be the most important single work in Western literature: the supreme literary achievement of the most influential culture in European history and the standard by which all subsequent works were to be judged.
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A precious part of literary history, and a treasure for anyone, young or old, who loves Alice. Now available to members in an exquisite facsimile edition, strictly limited to 3,750.
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Four hundred years ago, a book was published that would be read for centuries by countless generations and that still remains of central importance to the English-speaking world. The King James Bible is one of the most influential books of all time.
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A landmark of English poetry, The Canterbury Tales has appeared in many illustrated editions over the centuries. The Golden Cockerel Press edition of 1929-1931, illustrated by Eric Gill, is among the most remarkable.
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A masterly facsimile of the acclaimed Golden Cockerel Press edition of Chaucer’s masterpiece. This beautiful work unites the talents of typographer Robert Gibbings and artist-engraver Eric Gill.
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The Faerie Queene is one of the most beautiful works of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Illustrated by Walter Crane. Limited to 1,000 numbered copies, this is a gorgeous facsimile of a piece of publishing history.
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An exquisite facsimile of one of the greatest illuminated manuscripts housed in the Fitzwilliam Museum.
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In the mid-13th century, as influential preachers predicted the end of the world, and catastrophic events appeared to confirm their dire warnings, there was a surge in demand for illuminated manuscripts of Revelation, the culminating book of the New Testament. Among the surviving examples, one of the very finest is the Getty Apocalypse, here presented in facsimile for the first time.
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In Gulliver’s Travels the narrator visits a range of fantastic lands, bearing such outlandish names as Brobdingnag and Glubbdubdrib, and meets an array of peoples, from the belligerent Lilliputians to the gentle Houyhnhnms.
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An historic royal map of King Henry's realm - This historic map of Britain, ‘Angliae Figura’, hung on the walls of Hampton Court Palace and is now available to own in facsimile. It is accompanied by a specially commissioned commentary volume by Peter Barber.
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Your opportunity to own in facsimile a treasure from the private library of King Henry VIII - the personal prayer book of Henry VIII annotated in his own hand. Limited to 980 numbered copies.
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A superb facsimile of the Royal Choirbook - a beautiful large-format collection of Latin motets composed for the king and presented to him in 1518. Limited to 500 copies and accompanied by a CD of the recent, first-ever recording.
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A special leather-bound edition limited to just 500 copies of one of the most successful and brilliant histories ever written. Beginning with James II's troubled reign, Macaulay unravelled the complex web of 17th-century politics setting a new standard for future historians, both in terms of scholarship and style.
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David Roberts was the first British painter to make an artistic expedition to Egypt and the Holy Land. The result of his travels was a picturesque vision of the Near East that has been hugely influential ever since.
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For compelling narrative of love, hate, revenge and redemption, few books in history can match Les Misérables. Now presenting a new Folio limited edition of one of history’s greatest works of fiction. Limited to 1,750 copies.
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