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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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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One of the world's greatest living illustrators matched to the world's sharpest satirist: it's a perfect, creative combination that has produced a superb interpretation of French literature's most enduring classic text. This highly collectible edition of Voltaire's Candide, illustrated by Quentin Blake, and signed by the artist, is limited to 1,000 numbered copies.
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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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The Folio Society has created a truly sumptuous reproduction of the famous Four Gospels published by the Golden Cockerel Press in 1931 with the celebrated engravings of Eric Gill. Total limitation 2,750 of which only a few hundred now remain.
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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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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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Ovid’s epic poem is brought together with Titian’s paintings for the first time in this landmark publication. 'Its beauty adds a new aesthetic pleasure to that already provided by Ovid and Titian.’ – Lord Eatwell, President of Queen's College, Cambridge.
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Herman Melville's tale of the hunt for the white whale, Moby Dick, is one of the greatest novels of all time. This limited edition contains the classic illustrations of Rockwell Kent.
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An Exclusive numbered edition bound in moire silk and leather. 600,000 alternative and opposite words.
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From the thrilling mystical power of ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ to the visionary magnificence of ‘Kubla Khan’, these poems reshaped the landscape of English poetry and ensorcelled generations of readers. Now, The Folio Society presents a collector’s edition of four immortal poems by Coleridge with superb illustrations by one of the country’s leading wood-engravers, Harry Brockway.
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At the time when Sharpe’s Birds of Paradise was produced, lithographic plate reproduction had reached its peak of subtlety and precision. The illustrations showed these fabulous birds in radiant colour and exquisite detail.
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