Limited Editions

One of the most frequently performed of all Shakespeare’s comedies, an enchanting meditation on the nature of love, gender politics and the supernatural

The Great Charter presented in a meticulously produced facsimile accompanied by a certificate of authentication.

The King of Navarre wishes to devote himself to the life of the mind, that is until love intervenes in Shakespeare’s most sophisticated and intellectual comedy.

Complex, disturbing and powerful, King Lear is a play of haunting, shocking scenes and unmatched language.

One of the most opulent pictorial books ever published, Japan, produced at the end of the 19th century, captures a vanished world in 259 hand-coloured photographs. This is the first time this landmark work has been reproduced in its entirety in two luxurious volumes.

This new limited edition features an exclusive signed print by Dan Hillier, while the book lurks within a striking solander box. Limited to 750 copies. 

Shakespeare’s greatest play - the tragedy of Hamlet has become the most widely published work in the world, after the Bible.

A Golden Age gift book in facsimile for the first time. Kay Nielsen’s rarest work with his virtuoso blend of folk-tale drawing and Art Deco stylisation illustrating 22 of the best-loved tales by the Brothers Grimm

A superb facsimile of the Royal Choirbook – a beautiful large-format collection of Latin motets composed for Henry VIII and presented to him in 1518.

Gulliver’s Travels is a complex work of adventure, satire, comedy and profound philosophical exploration. For this edition we approached the artist and writer Peter Suart, whose response is at once wickedly comic and engagingly cerebral.

In the mid-13th century, as influential preachers predicted the end of the world, there was a surge in demand for illuminated manuscripts of Revelation. Among the surviving examples, one of the very finest is the Getty Apocalypse, here presented in facsimile for the first time.

The Folio Society limited edition of the Poetic Edda presents the Old Norse poems in a manner which is at once elegant, accessible and discreetly scholarly.

Salvador Dalí’s striking series of 50 watercolours inspired by the 1001 Nights with the tales, introduced by Robert Irwin, printed in a separate volume.

The hand-bound edition of The Duke’s Children. Presented in a solander box, this special copy of Trollope’s restored text is bound in leather blocked in 22-carat gold and hand-marbled on all three page edges by Jemma Lewis.

Restored from his original manuscript, the first complete edition of one of the finest novels by Anthony Trollope. Published in association with The Trollope Society.

There are high jinks aplenty in this early comedy – two sets of twins separated at birth, misguided servants and family lost and restored – all themes which delighted Shakespeare.

One of the finest of all surviving bestiaries in an exceptional 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.

Shakespeare’s ground-breaking comedy: unconventional and witty, it is the most playful of romances.

One of Shakespeare's 'problem plays', this tale of Helena's quest to trick Bertram into marrying her contains some of the bard's most brilliant female characters.

The first facsimile of one of the great books of botanic art from the edition held in the library of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

A signed and numbered limited edition of Gene Wolfe’s award-winning masterpiece of speculative fiction illustrated by Sam Weber and introduced by Neil Gaiman.

The ultimate collector’s edition of Lewis Carroll’s immortal tale illustrated by the acclaimed artist Charles van Sandwyk