Great Works of Literature, Poetry and History

Great Works of Literature, Poetry and History

Beautiful presentations of classics of world literature and non-fiction.

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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

Edward FitzGerald

Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is one of the best-loved poems in the English language. With its exotic themes and its blend of melancholy and romance, it has seduced readers and inspired artists. This magnificent 150th anniversary edition, illustrated by Niroot Puttapipat, is quarter-bound in vellum and limited to just 1,000 copies.

Sold out Price: US$ 795.00

Counts as 4 volumes

The Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer

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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Counts as 4 volumes

Decameron

Giovanni Boccaccio

Seven ladies and three young men retreat from Florence to escape the plague. As their entertainment, they decide each person must tell one story per day – ten days, ten narrators, one hundred stories.

Limited to 1,750 numbered copies

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Counts as 4 volumes

The Diary of Samuel Pepys

Samuel Pepys

Never yet surpassed as a record of a man and his age. Own the complete diary in a form that Pepys himself would have envied.

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Counts as 4 volumes

The Four Gospels

Golden Cockerel Press

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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Counts as 4 volumes

The History of England: From the Accession of James II (leather-bound limited edition)

Thomas Babington Macaulay

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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Counts as 4 volumes

Les Misérables

Victor Hugo

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.

Add to basket Price: US$ 325.00

Counts as 4 volumes

Metamorphoses

Ovid

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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Counts as 4 volumes

Moby-Dick

Herman Melville

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.

Add to basket Price: US$ 350.00

Counts as 4 volumes

Oxford Thesaurus of English

An Exclusive numbered edition bound in moire silk and leather. 600,000 alternative and opposite words.

Add to basket Price: US$ 285.00

Counts as 4 volumes

The Wind in the Willows - Centenary Edition

Kenneth Grahame

Celebrating the centenary of a beloved classic, this Centenary Edition of The Wind in the Willows will be the finest and most enchanting limited edition ever printed.

Sold out Price: US$ 1,195.00

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