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The Folio Society

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Memoirs of the Public and Private Life of Queen Caroline
£8.00 +
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Joseph Nightingale
The Folio Society 1978
The life of Caroline of Brunswick, controversial queen consort. Complete with slipcase. With b/w images. Crisp and clean. In very good condition [more...]
Venice: The Most Triumphant City
£8.00 +
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George Bull
Folio Society 1980
Lively study of the apogee of the avaricious and amoral city-state. Issued without slipcase but complete with glassine wrapper. Some shelfwear commensurate to age, very slight bumping to bottom edge, contents clean and prim. A bright copy. Very good. [more...]
The Best of the Raconteurs
£8.00 +
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Sheridan Morley & Tim Heald (editors); Aubero
The Folio Society 2000
Charming Folio Society volume of anecdotes and stories from well known raconteurs and conversationalists including Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens and Woody Allen. With b/w drawings by John Lawrence throughout. Metallic copper cloth covers. Complete with slipc [more...]
The Sun King and his Loves
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Lucy Norton
The Folio Society 1982
Generously illustrated account of Louis XIV's milieu and pursuits. With colour and b/w images throughout. Issued without Slipcase. Slight toning to spine. Else pristine. Very good, near fine. [more...]
Folio 34: A Checklist of the Publications of the Folio Society 1947 -1980
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John Dreyfus & John Letts
The Folio Press; The Folio Society 1981
The Third bibliographic account of the Folio Society's output, with succinct descriptions and details of each volume. With b/w illustrations adapted from the many books mentioned. With introductions. Some mild shelf-wear and bumping to top of spine. Else cl [more...]
Folio 21: A Bibliography of the Folio Society 1947 -1967
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Francis Meynall
The Folio Press; The Folio Society 1967
Bbibliographic account of the Folio Society's output, with succinct descriptions and details of each volume. With colour and b/w images of the many books mentioned. With introductions. Complete with No slipcase. Some rubbing and toning to cloth covers. Co [more...]
Bel-Ami
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Guy de Maupassant; Eric Sutton (trans)
The Folio Society 1955
Early Folio Society edition of Guy de Maupassant's 1885 novel about a Parisian social climber. Illustrated with colour lithographs by Alistair Grant. Lacks dust jacket. Spine is cocked. Toning and rubbing to covers. Contents clean and binding sound. Fair [more...]
The Gold Rush
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E. Gould Buffum
The Folio Society 1959
'An account of six months in the California diggings.' Oft thrilling, featuring encounters with Native Americans and ambitious prospectors. With black and white illustrations. Complete with slipcase. Marking to spine. Tanning to page edges. Contents clea [more...]
The Citizen of the World, Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher Residing in London to his friends in the East
£8.00 +
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Oliver Goldsmith
The Folio Society 1969
Handsome Folio Society edition of Goldsmith's letters, purportedly from an outsider, satirizing the manners of the English. Quarter cloth with marbled boards and decoration by Cecil Keeling. Complete with slipcase. Slipcase has some light toning and rubbing [more...]
Ars Amatoria [The Art of Love]
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Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso); B. P. Moore (tra
Folio Society 1965
Nice little edition of Ovid's verse on love. Features archetypal, stylish illustrations by Victor Reinganum. Quarter leather with decorated endpapers. Lacks slipcase. Spine is worn and rubbed but otherwise the volume is tight and clean. Contents are prim [more...]
Astrophel and Stella
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Phillip Sidney
The Folio Society 1959
Quarter Leather Folio Society edition of Sidney's late 16th century collection of interconnected sonnets and poems. With an introduction by Kingsley Hart. Decorated end-papers and matching decoration throughout. Complete with slipcase. Slipcase has some wea [more...]
The Life of Mozart Including his Correspondence
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Edward Holmes
The Folio Society 1992
Folio Society edition of Holmes' great biography of Mozart, first published in 1845. Edited and with an introduction by Christopher Hogwood. Quarter cloth with gilt silhouette to cover. Complete with slipcase and b/w images. Some very slight fading to spin [more...]
The Vicar of Wakefield
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Oliver Goldsmith
The Folio Society 1952
Early Folio Society edition of Goldsmith's popular 18th century novel, With illustrations by Margaret Weathebee. Decorative boards with decorative edn-papers. No slipcase as issued. Some toning to spine and Some tanning to page edges but otherwise is clean, p [more...]
Travels With A Donkey In The Cevennes
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Robert Louis Stevenson
The Folio Society 1975
Charming Folio edition of Stevenson's first published work. Written to secure independence from his parents and a future with the woman he loved, Travels with a Donkey is a pioneering work of travel writing. Detailing Stevenson's journey through the curious [more...]
The Unlucky Family
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Mrs Henry de la Pasture (Elizabeth Lydia Rosa
The Folio Society 1980
Pleasant Folio Society edition of de la Pasture's 1907 Children's novel. With an introduction by Auberon Waugh. b/w illustrations by John lawrence. Complete with slipcase. Some very light shelf-wear to slipcase. Very light toning to spine. Contents clean [more...]
The First Colonists: Hakluyt's Voyages to America
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Richard Hakluyt; A. L. Rowse
The Folio Society 1987
'A Modern Version' edited and introduced by Rowse, containing Hakluyt's key writings on the English colonization of the Americas. Generously illustrated in colour and b/w. Nice 4to sized (280x220mm). Complete with slipcase. Some light toning and shelf-wea [more...]
Our Village
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Mary Mitford
The Folio Society 1997
Pleasant quarter cloth edition of Mitford's evocative collection of sketches of rural life, first published in The Lady's Magazine in the early 19th century. With wood engravings by Joan Hassall. Slipcase has light shelfwear else crisp and clean. In Near Fi [more...]
The Worlds of John Aubrey
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John Aubrey
The Folio Society 1988
'Being a further selection of Brief Lives, together with excerpts from his writings on antiquities and science'. Selected and edited by Richard Barber. With b/w images. Complete with slipcase. Some shelfwear and marking to slipcase. Light rubbing to label [more...]
The Life of Charlemagne
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Einhard The Frank
Folio Society 1970
Important contemporary account of the Life of Charlemagne by the diminutive scholar, Einhard. Bound in a mock vellum with gilt titling. Full colour images of illuminated manuscripts and artifacts. Decorated endpapers, complete with slipcase. Slipcase has s [more...]
The Third Crusade: An Eye-Witness Account of the Campaigns of Richard Coeur-De-lyon in Cyprus and the Holy Land
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Ambroise of Normandy (?); Kenneth Fenwick (ed
The Folio Society 1958
Elegant Folio Society edition of the prose version of this chronicle of Richard I's crusade, thought to derive from the verse of Ambroise. With dramatic illustrations by Raymond Hawthorn. Bound in full vellum style vegetable parchment with gilt decoration. [more...]
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