18th and 19th Century

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Alice's Adventures under Ground book

Alice's Adventures under Ground

Lewis Carroll

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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Birds Drawn for John Gould by Edward Lear book

Birds Drawn for John Gould by Edward Lear

Edward Lear

Edward Lear was an ornithological artist with few equals. This magnificent ‘imperial folio’ edition is a facsimile of David Attenborough’s unique collection of Lear’s work for the naturalist John Gould. Limited to 780 numbered copies, each signed by David Attenborough. Order now for delivery May 2013.

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The Faerie Queene – Walter Crane illustrations book

The Faerie Queene – Walter Crane illustrations

The Faerie Queene, illustrated by Walter Crane, is one of the most beautiful works of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Limited to 1,000 numbered copies, this is a gorgeous facsimile of a piece of publishing history.

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Gulliver's Travels book

Gulliver's Travels

Jonathan Swift

Gulliver’s Travels is a complex, multi-layered work that can be read as adventure, satire, comedy and profound philosophical exploration of human nature and society. For this collector’s edition, The Folio Society approached the artist and writer Peter Suart, whose response is at once wickedly comic and engagingly cerebral.

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Japan book

Japan

One of the most opulent pictorial books ever published, Japan captures a vanished world in 259 hand-coloured photographs. Now, for the first time, this landmark work is reproduced in its entirety in two luxurious volumes.

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Macaulay - The History of England book

Macaulay - The History of England

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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Moby-Dick book

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.

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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems book

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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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Sharpe's Birds of Paradise book

Sharpe's Birds of Paradise

Richard Bowdler Sharpe

The Folio Society is proud to reproduce, for the first time, all 79 plates of Sharpe’s Birds of Paradise in book form at their actual size, with a foreword by David Attenborough.

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The Temple of Flora book

The Temple of Flora

Robert Thornton

Strictly limited to 600 copies, this is the first ever full-size facsimile of the greatest English florilegium. Receive two superb fine art prints FREE with your copy.

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Travels In Arabia Deserta book

Travels In Arabia Deserta

C.M. Doughty

Charles Doughty travelled on foot and rode by camel around an area the size of France, a region so desolate that it was occupied by just a few tens of thousands of people. This Folio edition celebrates the masterpiece born from his journey.

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Vincent van Gogh: The Sketchbooks book

Vincent van Gogh: The Sketchbooks

Vincent Van Gogh

This complete facsimile of the artist’s surviving sketchbooks is published in association with the Van Gogh Museum. It is a hidden, but crucial part of the legacy of one of the world's greatest artists, and reveals his dedicated attempts to 'capture things first-hand'. With 850 copies available through The Folio Society.

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