Limited Editions

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

A limited edition published to commemorate the poet’s death in April 1917 and designed to emulate the fine press editions of the early 20th century. In series with Selected Poems Rupert Brooke and Selected Poems Wilfred Owen.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Ovid’s epic poem is brought together with Titian’s paintings for the first time in this landmark publication.

Written at the request of Queen Elizabeth, who wanted to see Falstaff again, this is the only Shakespeare comedy set entirely in England.

The sheer visceral strength of this great tragedy has resonated through the centuries, ensuring it remains one of Shakespeare’s most popular plays.

A masterpiece of botanical art and the most comprehensive study of the apples and pears grown in Britain ever published. Each edition is sent with a set of four prints for framing.

Folio presents an exquisite facsimile of the Pearl Manuscript: the sole source for the poems ’Pearl’, ’Cleanness’, ’Patience’ and ’Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’ and one of the most important texts in medieval English literature.

Russell Hoban’s genre-defying masterpiece with a new essay by Quentin Blake and a specially-commissioned postscript by Dr Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury.

The author Joyce Carol Oates famously called Troilus and Cressida 'that most vexing and ambiguous of Shakespeare's plays'.

A hilarious story of romance and rivalry thought to be Shakespeare’s first play – penned before he came to London.

The most powerful sorcery is Shakespeare’s language. Complex, personal and unsurpassably lyrical: rediscover one of Shakespeare’s most finely nuanced plays.

A bleak and sardonic study that strains against the bounds of comedy, and ends in tragedy with Timon’s change from generous, trusting optimist to bitter misanthrope.

A medieval masterpiece, from the collection of the BritishLibrary, presented in facsimile along with a commentary by Kristine Edmondson Haney.

Lavishly ornamented and illustrated by Alan Lee. The Old English texts and their translations by Michael Alexander are set on facing pages for ease of reading.