The Holy Land and Egypt and Nubia

David Roberts

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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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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Les Misérables

Victor Hugo

For compelling narrative of love, hate, revenge and redemption, few books in history can match Les Misérables. Now presenting a Folio limited edition of one of history’s greatest works of fiction. Limited to 1,750 copies.

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Liber Bestiarum

One of the finest of all surviving bestiaries in this new limited edition facsimile. A treasure of the Bodleian Library, this Bestiary shows the medieval art of illumination at its best, with 135 miniatures glowing with rich, gleaming gold.

Strictly limited to 1,980 copies

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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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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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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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Night Thoughts

Edward Young

William Blake's daring and dramatic series of over 500 watercolours to illustrate this popular poem had never previously been reproduced. The effect in this two-volume facsimile is stunning.

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The Queen Mary Atlas

One of the most beautiful maps ever made this was commissioned by Queen Mary Tudor as a gift to her beloved husband Philip of Spain. Holding a crucial place in the history of map-making, this is a remarkable portrait of the Renaissance world.

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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner & 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

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 Sound and the Fury

William Faulkner

One of the masterpieces of 20th-century literature, The Sound and the Fury has challenged and exhilarated readers in equal measures. Now, printed as the author originally intended, this unique edition is a landmark of publishing.

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South Polar Times

Created by the crew of Captain Scott's epic antarctic expeditions, a unique publication offering a fascinating and moving glimpse of life for explorers at the furthest reaches of the world.

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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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