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A Passage to India (Folio Society)
- £35.00
- Folio edition of Forster's classic: A compelling portrait of a society in the grip of imperialism, A Passage to India depicts the fate of individuals caught in the great political and cultural conflicts of their age. It begins when Adela and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian…
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Almayer’s Folly: the story of an Eastern river
- £25.00
- Conrad's 1st novel (1895) Set in the late 19th century, it centres on the life of the Dutch trader Kaspar Almayer in the Borneo jungle and his relationship to his mixed heritage daughter Nina.
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Amelia
- £20.00
- One of Fielding's great novels in the 1995 Folio Society edition. Illustrations by Simon Brett.
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An Account of the Discovery of Tahiti: From the Journal of George Robertson (Folio Society)
- £12.00
- Folio edition from the Journal of George Robertson, Master of HMS Dolphin, published originally as The discovery of Tahiti; a journal of the second voyage of H.M.S. Dolphin round the world under the command of Captain Wallis, R.N., in the years 1766, 1767, and 1768, written by her master
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At the Court of the Borgia (Folio)
- £18.00
- At the Court of the Borgia: Being an Account of the Reign of Pope Alexander VI. Johann Burchard (c.1450Ð1506) was an Alsatian-born priest and chronicler during the Italian Renaissance. He spent his entire career at the papal Courts of Sixtus IV, Innocent VIII, Alexander VI, Pius III, and Julius II,…
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Barchester Towers (Barsetshire Chronicles vol. 2) – Folio
- £30.00
- Beautiful Folio edition of Book 2 of Anthony Trollope's popular "Chronicles of Barsetshire" series. After the death of old Dr Grantly, a bitter struggle begins over who will succeed him as Bishop of Barchester. And when the decision is finally made to appoint the evangelical Dr Proudie, rather than the…
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Barchester Towers (Barsetshire Chronicles vol. 2) – Folio
- £18.00
- Beautiful Folio edition of Book 2 of Anthony Trollope's popular "Chronicles of Barsetshire" series. After the death of old Dr Grantly, a bitter struggle begins over who will succeed him as Bishop of Barchester. And when the decision is finally made to appoint the evangelical Dr Proudie, rather than the…
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Beowulf
- £25.00
- The Anglo-Saxon classic, probably written in the eighth century, which is one of the world's most famous epics. The story is retold in rhythmical and quick-paced prose. Introduction by Bruce Mitchell and lithographs by Virgil Burnett. 125 pages including genealogical tables and list of proper names.
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Betjeman’s Britain – Folio
- £20.00
- An anthology of Betjeman's writing about Britain, selected and edited by Candida Lycett-Green, together with extracts from his and others' poetry (with numerous b/w images)
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England’s Constable (Folio Society)
- £15.00
- Folio Society publication of Joseph Darracott's Life and Letters of John Constable (in ful colour)
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Framley Parsonage (Barsetshire Chronicles vol. 4) – Folio
- £30.00
- Beautiful Folio edition of Book 4 of Anthony Trollope's popular "Chronicles of Barsetshire" series. In an attempt to make connections with high society, young vicar Mark Robarts foolishly guarantees a loan to the corrupt MP, Nate Sowerby. With Mr Sowerby not repaying the loan, MarkÕs friend Lord Lufton eventually steps…
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Goodbye to all that (Folio)
- £12.00
- The tectonic shifts in English society following the First World War were so great that Robert Graves left England permanently, vowing never to return. He recounts here his experiences in the war. The introduction by Raleigh Trevelyan is new to this edition, which follows that of the 1957 revised edition,…
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Lancelot and Guinevere (Folio)
- £30.00
- Taken from Malory's Morte d'Arthur, this is the Folio edition of Prof Eugne Vinaver produced in association with OUP/Clarendon Press.
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Natural History & Antiquities of Selborne (Folio Society)
- £30.00
- Gilbert White's Natural History of Selborne (1789) reveals a world of wonders in nature. Over a period of twenty years White describes in minute detail the behaviour of animals through the changing seasons in the rural Hampshire parish of Selborne. He notes everything from the habits of an eccentric tortoise…
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Paris Album
- £20.00
- Comte Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa (1864Ð1901) was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist and illustrator whose immersion in the colorful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 19th century allowed him to produce a collection of enticing, elegant, and provocative images of the sometimes decadent affairs of those…
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Pather Panchali: Song of the Road (Folio)
- £12.00
- In the idyllic village of the Abode of Contentment, Durga and her little brother, Opu, grow up in a world of woods, orchards and adventure. Nurtured on their aunt's songs and stories, they dream of secret magical lands, forbidden gardens and the distant railroad. The grown-up world of debts, resentment…
- Add to basket
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Rebecca (Folio)
- £25.00
- On a trip to the South of France, the shy heroine of Rebecca falls in love with Maxim de Winter, a handsome widower. Although his proposal comes as a surprise, she happily agrees to marry him. But as they arrive at her husband's home, Manderley, a change comes over Maxim,…
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Rob Roy (Folio)
- £20.00
- For the most popular of his Scottish romances, published at the end of 1817, Scott drew on the legends and historical anecdotes about Rob Roy MacGregor he had collected in his youth. The famous outlaw is only one of a series of vivid characters who cast their spell of the…
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Rumpole (Folio)
- £25.00
- Mortimer selects and introduces this Folio Society edition of an anthology of Rumpole of the Bailey 10 short stories.
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Stories; Plays and Poems; Essays and Letters (Folio)
- £100.00
- Folio 3-volume set of Wilde's work: includes 'Essays and Letters'; 'Stories', and 'Plays and Poems'.
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The Brownings, a biography compiled from contemporary sources (Folio Society)
- £10.00
- A biography of the Brownings - Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning , with four black and white illustrations of the poets.
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The Canterbury Tales (2 Vols)
- £50.00
- The Folio double-volume edition of the famous translation by Nevil Coghill (one of the Inklings with Lewis and Tolkien), with Edna Whyte's woodcuts
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The Civilisation Of The Renaissance In Italy: An Essay (Folio)
- £24.00
- Carl Jacob Christoph Burckhardt (Basel, May 25, 1818 Ð August 8, 1897 in Basel) was a historian of art and culture, and an influential figure in the historiography of each field. He is known as one of the major progenitors of cultural history,albeit in a form very different from how…
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The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston (3 vols.)
- £55.00
- A highly decorated English soldier and an acclaimed poet and novelist, Siegfried Sassoon won fame for his trilogy of fictionalized autobiographies that wonderfully capture the vanishing idylls of Edwardian England and the brutal realities of war. The first, Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man, is picked up immediately in 1916 with…
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The Complete Novels of the Brontë Sisters (7 volumes)
- £150.00
- The Brontë sisters' complete works in a beautiful Folio edition; Agnes Grey 172 pp (illus. Harry Brockway); The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, 385 pp (illus. Ian Stephens), Wuthering Heights, 293 pp (illus. Peter Forster) The Professor 226 pp (illus. George Tute), Villette, 450 pp (illus. Peter Reddick); Jane Eyre, 436…
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The Creevey Papers
- £15.00
- A selection from the correspondence & diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M. P. (1768-1838)
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The Diary of a Country Parson
- £12.00
- Parson Woodforde's diary provides an unrivalled portrayal of traditional rural life in Georgian England, but it is the diarist's humour and unpretentiousness which ensure its continuing place among the classics of English literature.
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The Folio Golden Treasury: The best songs and lyrical poems in the English Language
- £30.00
- The Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in English Language chosen and introduced by James Michie. Illustrated with Wood Engravings by various artists selected by Simon Brett. Arranged by poet's date of birth (from Thomas Wyatt to Thom Gunn, including Betjeman, Joyce, GKChesterton, John Masefield, TSEliot et al.
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The Grand Tour 1592-1796
- £15.00
- Generously illustrated Folio Society volume presenting an account of the Grand Tour - the 'edifying' excursion many young Englishmen took to continental europe - through the writings of a selection of authors. Many of the writers assembled here do not strictly fall within the strict definition of Grand Tourists being…
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The Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple 1652-54 (Folio)
- £12.00
- The love letters written by Dorothy Osborne to William Temple (from the last two years of a seven year courtship which ended with their marriage in 1654) stand with the diaries of Pepys and Evelyn as fascinating personal documents of one of the most eventful periods in British history.
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The Life of Charlemagne (Folio)
- £18.00
- Einhard's Life of Charlemagne is an absorbing chronicle of one of the most powerful and dynamic of all medieval rulers, written by a close friend and adviser. In elegant prose it describes Charlemagne's personal life, details his achievements in reviving learning and the arts, recounts his military successes and depicts…
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The Monk (Folio)
- £20.00
- Ambrosio, the worthy superior of the Capuchins of Madrid, falls to the temptations of Matilda, a fiend-inspired wanton who, disguised as a boy, has entered his monastery as a novice. Ambrosio then falls in love with one of his penitents and finally kills her in order to escape detection. However,…
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The Retreat from Moscow: The Memoirs of Sergeant Bourgogne 1812-1813 (Folio Society)
- £16.00
- Folio edition. n June 1812, NapoleonÕs 680,000 strong Grande Arme crossed the Neman River and invaded Russia. When the remnants of Napoleon's army returned over the Berezina River in November, only 27,000 effective soldiers remained. Adrien BourgogneÕs Memoirs is one of the most vivid and moving accounts of this dramatic…
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The Rubiyt of Omar Khayym (Folio Society)
- £15.00
- Beautiful Folio edition of the famous translation by Fitzgerald (31 March 1809 - 14 June 1883). Omar Khayym (18 May 1048 - 4 December 1131) was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and poet. Illustrated by Virgil Burnett.
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The Secret History (Folio)
- £30.00
- A trusted member of the Byzantine establishment, Procopius was the Empire's official chronicler, and his History of the Wars of Justinian proclaimed the strength and wisdom of the Emperor's reign. Yet all the while the dutiful scribe was working on a very different - and dangerous - history to be…
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The Shadow of Vesuvius: Pompeii AD 79 (Folio)
- £40.00
- A detailed and comprehensive study of the discovery of the remains of Pompeii and Herculaneum in the eighteenth century. With chapters on the volcano itself, discoveries and the reawakening of the story, the Romantics, science and methodology, the stones of Pompeii, and more. Written by Walter Raleigh Trevelyan, a British…
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The Two Heroines of Plumplington and other stories
- £15.00
- Folio edition of Trollope's short stories: In the Barsetshire town of Plumplington the daughter of the townÕs leading banker and the daughter of its brewer have each chosen their future husbands. But both young men are regarded by the fathers as unsuitable, even though each suitor is, in fact, much…
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The Unbearable Bassington (FOLIO)
- £20.00
- "I'm living so far beyond my means that we may almost be said to be living apart." Saki is the penname of the British writer Hector Hugh Munro. In The Unbearable Bassington, he tells the story of the whimsical Francesca Bassington, an upper middle class woman whose main concerns in…
- Add to basket
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The Warden (Barsetshire Chronicles vol. 1) – Folio
- £30.00
- Beautiful Folio edition of Book 1 of Anthony Trollope's popular "Chronicles of Barsetshire" series. In "The Warden", a crusading young physician seeks to expose corruption in the operation of an old age home by the facility's administrator, the respected Rev. Septimus Harding. Unfortunately, the young doctor fancy's Harding's daughter. Trollope's…
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Three Stories: Bartleby; Benito Cereno; Billy Budd
- £18.00
- ÔStruck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!Õ It is the end of the eighteenth century, and the navy recruits the eponymous hero Ð the ÔHandsome SailorÕ Ð to its fleet. Accused of mutinous behaviour, Billy Budd is forced to defend himself, but his fearful, silent…
- Add to basket
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Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
- £15.00
- Travels with a Donkey in the Cvennes (1879) is one of Robert Louis Stevenson's earliest published works and is considered a pioneering classic of outdoor literature. It is also one of the earliest accounts of hiking and camping outdoors as a recreational activity. It tells of the commissioning of one…
- Add to basket
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Venice: the most triumphant city
- £10.00
- Bull was a multi-talented and accomplished journalist, translator and art historian. This account of Venice was widely-regarded.
- Add to basket
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A Passage to India (Folio Society)
- £35.00
- Folio edition of Forster's classic: A compelling portrait of a society in the grip of imperialism, A Passage to India depicts the fate of individuals caught in the great political and cultural conflicts of their age. It begins when Adela and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian…
- Add to basket
-
Almayer’s Folly: the story of an Eastern river
- £25.00
- Conrad's 1st novel (1895) Set in the late 19th century, it centres on the life of the Dutch trader Kaspar Almayer in the Borneo jungle and his relationship to his mixed heritage daughter Nina.
- Add to basket
-
Amelia
- £20.00
- One of Fielding's great novels in the 1995 Folio Society edition. Illustrations by Simon Brett.
- Add to basket
-
An Account of the Discovery of Tahiti: From the Journal of George Robertson (Folio Society)
- £12.00
- Folio edition from the Journal of George Robertson, Master of HMS Dolphin, published originally as The discovery of Tahiti; a journal of the second voyage of H.M.S. Dolphin round the world under the command of Captain Wallis, R.N., in the years 1766, 1767, and 1768, written by her master
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At the Court of the Borgia (Folio)
- £18.00
- At the Court of the Borgia: Being an Account of the Reign of Pope Alexander VI. Johann Burchard (c.1450Ð1506) was an Alsatian-born priest and chronicler during the Italian Renaissance. He spent his entire career at the papal Courts of Sixtus IV, Innocent VIII, Alexander VI, Pius III, and Julius II,…
- Add to basket
-
Barchester Towers (Barsetshire Chronicles vol. 2) – Folio
- £30.00
- Beautiful Folio edition of Book 2 of Anthony Trollope's popular "Chronicles of Barsetshire" series. After the death of old Dr Grantly, a bitter struggle begins over who will succeed him as Bishop of Barchester. And when the decision is finally made to appoint the evangelical Dr Proudie, rather than the…
- Add to basket
-
Barchester Towers (Barsetshire Chronicles vol. 2) – Folio
- £18.00
- Beautiful Folio edition of Book 2 of Anthony Trollope's popular "Chronicles of Barsetshire" series. After the death of old Dr Grantly, a bitter struggle begins over who will succeed him as Bishop of Barchester. And when the decision is finally made to appoint the evangelical Dr Proudie, rather than the…
- Add to basket
-
Beowulf
- £25.00
- The Anglo-Saxon classic, probably written in the eighth century, which is one of the world's most famous epics. The story is retold in rhythmical and quick-paced prose. Introduction by Bruce Mitchell and lithographs by Virgil Burnett. 125 pages including genealogical tables and list of proper names.
- Add to basket
-
Betjeman’s Britain – Folio
- £20.00
- An anthology of Betjeman's writing about Britain, selected and edited by Candida Lycett-Green, together with extracts from his and others' poetry (with numerous b/w images)
- Add to basket
-
England’s Constable (Folio Society)
- £15.00
- Folio Society publication of Joseph Darracott's Life and Letters of John Constable (in ful colour)
- Add to basket
-
Framley Parsonage (Barsetshire Chronicles vol. 4) – Folio
- £30.00
- Beautiful Folio edition of Book 4 of Anthony Trollope's popular "Chronicles of Barsetshire" series. In an attempt to make connections with high society, young vicar Mark Robarts foolishly guarantees a loan to the corrupt MP, Nate Sowerby. With Mr Sowerby not repaying the loan, MarkÕs friend Lord Lufton eventually steps…
- Add to basket
-
Goodbye to all that (Folio)
- £12.00
- The tectonic shifts in English society following the First World War were so great that Robert Graves left England permanently, vowing never to return. He recounts here his experiences in the war. The introduction by Raleigh Trevelyan is new to this edition, which follows that of the 1957 revised edition,…
- Add to basket
-
Lancelot and Guinevere (Folio)
- £30.00
- Taken from Malory's Morte d'Arthur, this is the Folio edition of Prof Eugne Vinaver produced in association with OUP/Clarendon Press.
- Add to basket
-
Natural History & Antiquities of Selborne (Folio Society)
- £30.00
- Gilbert White's Natural History of Selborne (1789) reveals a world of wonders in nature. Over a period of twenty years White describes in minute detail the behaviour of animals through the changing seasons in the rural Hampshire parish of Selborne. He notes everything from the habits of an eccentric tortoise…
- Add to basket
-
Paris Album
- £20.00
- Comte Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa (1864Ð1901) was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist and illustrator whose immersion in the colorful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 19th century allowed him to produce a collection of enticing, elegant, and provocative images of the sometimes decadent affairs of those…
- Add to basket
-
Pather Panchali: Song of the Road (Folio)
- £12.00
- In the idyllic village of the Abode of Contentment, Durga and her little brother, Opu, grow up in a world of woods, orchards and adventure. Nurtured on their aunt's songs and stories, they dream of secret magical lands, forbidden gardens and the distant railroad. The grown-up world of debts, resentment…
- Add to basket
-
Rebecca (Folio)
- £25.00
- On a trip to the South of France, the shy heroine of Rebecca falls in love with Maxim de Winter, a handsome widower. Although his proposal comes as a surprise, she happily agrees to marry him. But as they arrive at her husband's home, Manderley, a change comes over Maxim,…
- Add to basket
-
Rob Roy (Folio)
- £20.00
- For the most popular of his Scottish romances, published at the end of 1817, Scott drew on the legends and historical anecdotes about Rob Roy MacGregor he had collected in his youth. The famous outlaw is only one of a series of vivid characters who cast their spell of the…
- Add to basket
-
Rumpole (Folio)
- £25.00
- Mortimer selects and introduces this Folio Society edition of an anthology of Rumpole of the Bailey 10 short stories.
- Add to basket
-
Stories; Plays and Poems; Essays and Letters (Folio)
- £100.00
- Folio 3-volume set of Wilde's work: includes 'Essays and Letters'; 'Stories', and 'Plays and Poems'.
- Add to basket
-
The Brownings, a biography compiled from contemporary sources (Folio Society)
- £10.00
- A biography of the Brownings - Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning , with four black and white illustrations of the poets.
- Add to basket
-
The Canterbury Tales (2 Vols)
- £50.00
- The Folio double-volume edition of the famous translation by Nevil Coghill (one of the Inklings with Lewis and Tolkien), with Edna Whyte's woodcuts
- Add to basket
-
The Civilisation Of The Renaissance In Italy: An Essay (Folio)
- £24.00
- Carl Jacob Christoph Burckhardt (Basel, May 25, 1818 Ð August 8, 1897 in Basel) was a historian of art and culture, and an influential figure in the historiography of each field. He is known as one of the major progenitors of cultural history,albeit in a form very different from how…
- Add to basket
-
The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston (3 vols.)
- £55.00
- A highly decorated English soldier and an acclaimed poet and novelist, Siegfried Sassoon won fame for his trilogy of fictionalized autobiographies that wonderfully capture the vanishing idylls of Edwardian England and the brutal realities of war. The first, Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man, is picked up immediately in 1916 with…
- Add to basket
-
The Complete Novels of the Brontë Sisters (7 volumes)
- £150.00
- The Brontë sisters' complete works in a beautiful Folio edition; Agnes Grey 172 pp (illus. Harry Brockway); The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, 385 pp (illus. Ian Stephens), Wuthering Heights, 293 pp (illus. Peter Forster) The Professor 226 pp (illus. George Tute), Villette, 450 pp (illus. Peter Reddick); Jane Eyre, 436…
- Add to basket
-
The Creevey Papers
- £15.00
- A selection from the correspondence & diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M. P. (1768-1838)
- Add to basket
-
The Diary of a Country Parson
- £12.00
- Parson Woodforde's diary provides an unrivalled portrayal of traditional rural life in Georgian England, but it is the diarist's humour and unpretentiousness which ensure its continuing place among the classics of English literature.
- Add to basket
-
The Folio Golden Treasury: The best songs and lyrical poems in the English Language
- £30.00
- The Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in English Language chosen and introduced by James Michie. Illustrated with Wood Engravings by various artists selected by Simon Brett. Arranged by poet's date of birth (from Thomas Wyatt to Thom Gunn, including Betjeman, Joyce, GKChesterton, John Masefield, TSEliot et al.
- Add to basket
-
The Grand Tour 1592-1796
- £15.00
- Generously illustrated Folio Society volume presenting an account of the Grand Tour - the 'edifying' excursion many young Englishmen took to continental europe - through the writings of a selection of authors. Many of the writers assembled here do not strictly fall within the strict definition of Grand Tourists being…
- Add to basket
-
The Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple 1652-54 (Folio)
- £12.00
- The love letters written by Dorothy Osborne to William Temple (from the last two years of a seven year courtship which ended with their marriage in 1654) stand with the diaries of Pepys and Evelyn as fascinating personal documents of one of the most eventful periods in British history.
- Add to basket
-
The Life of Charlemagne (Folio)
- £18.00
- Einhard's Life of Charlemagne is an absorbing chronicle of one of the most powerful and dynamic of all medieval rulers, written by a close friend and adviser. In elegant prose it describes Charlemagne's personal life, details his achievements in reviving learning and the arts, recounts his military successes and depicts…
- Add to basket
-
The Monk (Folio)
- £20.00
- Ambrosio, the worthy superior of the Capuchins of Madrid, falls to the temptations of Matilda, a fiend-inspired wanton who, disguised as a boy, has entered his monastery as a novice. Ambrosio then falls in love with one of his penitents and finally kills her in order to escape detection. However,…
- Add to basket
-
The Retreat from Moscow: The Memoirs of Sergeant Bourgogne 1812-1813 (Folio Society)
- £16.00
- Folio edition. n June 1812, NapoleonÕs 680,000 strong Grande Arme crossed the Neman River and invaded Russia. When the remnants of Napoleon's army returned over the Berezina River in November, only 27,000 effective soldiers remained. Adrien BourgogneÕs Memoirs is one of the most vivid and moving accounts of this dramatic…
- Add to basket
-
The Rubiyt of Omar Khayym (Folio Society)
- £15.00
- Beautiful Folio edition of the famous translation by Fitzgerald (31 March 1809 - 14 June 1883). Omar Khayym (18 May 1048 - 4 December 1131) was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and poet. Illustrated by Virgil Burnett.
- Add to basket
-
The Secret History (Folio)
- £30.00
- A trusted member of the Byzantine establishment, Procopius was the Empire's official chronicler, and his History of the Wars of Justinian proclaimed the strength and wisdom of the Emperor's reign. Yet all the while the dutiful scribe was working on a very different - and dangerous - history to be…
- Add to basket
-
The Shadow of Vesuvius: Pompeii AD 79 (Folio)
- £40.00
- A detailed and comprehensive study of the discovery of the remains of Pompeii and Herculaneum in the eighteenth century. With chapters on the volcano itself, discoveries and the reawakening of the story, the Romantics, science and methodology, the stones of Pompeii, and more. Written by Walter Raleigh Trevelyan, a British…
- Add to basket
-
The Two Heroines of Plumplington and other stories
- £15.00
- Folio edition of Trollope's short stories: In the Barsetshire town of Plumplington the daughter of the townÕs leading banker and the daughter of its brewer have each chosen their future husbands. But both young men are regarded by the fathers as unsuitable, even though each suitor is, in fact, much…
- Add to basket
-
The Unbearable Bassington (FOLIO)
- £20.00
- "I'm living so far beyond my means that we may almost be said to be living apart." Saki is the penname of the British writer Hector Hugh Munro. In The Unbearable Bassington, he tells the story of the whimsical Francesca Bassington, an upper middle class woman whose main concerns in…
- Add to basket
-
The Warden (Barsetshire Chronicles vol. 1) – Folio
- £30.00
- Beautiful Folio edition of Book 1 of Anthony Trollope's popular "Chronicles of Barsetshire" series. In "The Warden", a crusading young physician seeks to expose corruption in the operation of an old age home by the facility's administrator, the respected Rev. Septimus Harding. Unfortunately, the young doctor fancy's Harding's daughter. Trollope's…
- Add to basket
-
Three Stories: Bartleby; Benito Cereno; Billy Budd
- £18.00
- ÔStruck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!Õ It is the end of the eighteenth century, and the navy recruits the eponymous hero Ð the ÔHandsome SailorÕ Ð to its fleet. Accused of mutinous behaviour, Billy Budd is forced to defend himself, but his fearful, silent…
- Add to basket
-
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
- £15.00
- Travels with a Donkey in the Cvennes (1879) is one of Robert Louis Stevenson's earliest published works and is considered a pioneering classic of outdoor literature. It is also one of the earliest accounts of hiking and camping outdoors as a recreational activity. It tells of the commissioning of one…
- Add to basket
-
Venice: the most triumphant city
- £10.00
- Bull was a multi-talented and accomplished journalist, translator and art historian. This account of Venice was widely-regarded.
- Add to basket