George Macy Imagery #5

We've hit a lot of replies in the last thread, so let's move over to a new one!

https://georgemacyimagery.wordpress.com/2017/06/17/limited-editions-club-the-bir...

Here's a look at the LEC edition of The Birds!

whoops, double post

I'm back with a huge monster of a post, the extensive look at the publications of Cyrano de Bergerac from George Macy. This is a big update from the Heritage only post I made years ago, as I've thrown in both LEC volumes and expanded the commentary quite a bit from the earlier post.

https://georgemacyimagery.wordpress.com/2017/04/23/heritage-press-cyrano-de-berg...

The link still only reads the HP edition, but it's correct. Enjoy!

>3 WildcatJF: Thanks for your review! I have, have read and enjoyed the companion volumes to the 1936 Cyrano. Will likely get it despite your notes on the translation. Prefer the earlier design much more than the later.

4) Hooker is fine. A little flat in contrast to Untermeyer, but it's quite readable. And I agree that the overall design is better on the first Cyrano. I adore both, but I love the play so much that having both was almost unquestionable for me. Go with whichever you prefer and you should be happy. :)

>5 WildcatJF:

Or, like some of us, have both. :-)

Happy Monday everybody! I've got another post for you today, and this one is a subject close to my heart: the LEC publication of the Popol Vuh.

https://georgemacyimagery.wordpress.com/2017/07/03/limited-editions-club-the-boo...

There's a lot of supplemental material with this one as I studied the Ancient Maya a lot in university, so I hope it'll provide some background as to why this is such a fascinating book. Enjoy!

Thank you for posting this, Jerry. I have also been fascinated by Meso-American civilization since I worked at the bookstore for the LA County Natural History Museum when I was a student at USC and spent my lunch breaks browsing through the many books on the subject. I bought several, including a large paperback edition of Popol Vuh, and a few years later was amazed to find the LEC had produced their own edition (which I promptly tracked down). I became so interested I took an extension course in the Maya from arch-rival UCLA.

It indeed is something of an anomaly to find this in the LEC canon. The Popol Vuh is outside of the standard list of world classics, or was--in my lifetime we have seen a growing awareness of the masterpieces of literature which exist outside of the relatively narrow compass of Greco-Roman/European civilization. But the LEC was often willing to risk the displeasure of its subscribers by offering works such as All Men are Brothers and The Egyptian Book of the Dead, and especially Popol Vuh, which I'm sure caused much bewilderment when it was announced in the Prospectus.

Incidentally, for any booklovers who might like to learn more about the Maya but aren't interested reading works specialized for the archaeology student, I would recommend John L. Stephens' Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatán and Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, the books which, in the mid-nineteenth century, introduced the Mayan ruins to many in the Western world. Absorbing travel books and made even more beautiful by the many drawings of the half-buried ruins by Frederick Catherwood, whose own Views of Ancient Monuments in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan with color lithographs based on his original watercolors needs a Folio Society or Taschen reprint.

8) Thank you for the kind words, Robert! And I'm glad somebody else got into the Maya due to the Popol Vuh. It's a fascinating work and an amazing culture. I'll look into those books from Stephens and Catherwood.

I was feeling a bit adventurous today, so I have two posts for you today. Lucky you!

First up is the Koran LEC, which I will just go ahead and note that I am employing a unique post style for the work given its religious significance, putting all images in a gallery at the very end. The post proper explains why. Here's the link:
https://georgemacyimagery.wordpress.com/2017/07/09/limited-editions-club-selecti...

Second is the LEC The Way of the World by William Congreve:
https://georgemacyimagery.wordpress.com/2017/07/09/limited-editions-club-the-way...

And with those, I've gotten all of my current LECs onto the blog! I have a couple Heritage exclusives left to cover, and then it'll probably be revisions for a bunch of the older posts to update info, links and such until I procure more books!

>9 WildcatJF: Did the LEC Koran come in a solander box?

10) I may be confusing the terminology, but mine did come in a slipcase that is essentially a box. May not be a solander box; if anyone knows what the correct term is I'd happily change it.

Also looking for MLs for either book if anyone has one.

>11 WildcatJF: Thanks. Sorry, my bad. I just checked my copy and sure enough it comes in the blue box.

12) No worries!

https://georgemacyimagery.wordpress.com/2017/07/30/heritage-press-moriae-encomiu...

Today we have a Heritage exclusive, although it was originally meant to be a LEC! Enjoy this very thorough post on The Praise of Folly and the Booklover's Journey Around the World (thanks BuzzBuzzard for the letter! This post wouldn't have been anywhere as interesting or fun without your recent addition to the Letters!)

https://georgemacyimagery.wordpress.com/2017/08/05/heritage-press-lorna-doone-by...

Today's post discusses another Heritage exclusive, Lorna Doone!

>15 WildcatJF:

Thanks for posting about this one; it is one of the most overlooked of all Heritage Press titles, but at one time was a book that ranked in popularity with Robinson Crusoe.

John Austen is controversial. Perhaps oddly I have a favorable impression from his pictures in the 1935 Heritage Press David Copperfield. This might have been because I enjoyed the story truly. I did not mind him in the HP Vicar of Wakefield either. The 1939 HP VoW is another HP of the highest quality. It has a very sturdy binding of I am not sure what material. The pictures are slip sheeted and the protecting sheets are sewn into the binding. I have not seen this else where. The paper and printing are of the highest quality. My copy feels like it came out of the press yesterday. Very impressive.

>17 BuzzBuzzard: Vasil, you did it again...I have ordered the 1939 Vicar of Wakefield. You are a very good enabler. I wish I could get all that you recommend.

>18 Jan7Smith: Let me know what you think when you receive it. The story is engaging with predictive finish. Entertaining but not nearly as good as anything Dickens that I have read. This being said I wholeheartedly recommend that you seek out a 1935, limited edition copy of the Heritage Press David Copperfield, bound in full leather. This is one of the first six HP books that were also issued as limited (signed) editions. Some patience will be required since it does not pop up online often but the wait is well worth it. There is something very bookish about this edition. There are others and Robert showcased most in here http://www.librarything.com/topic/178109. Sadly Photo Bucket played a trick on us all and most of the pictures but from our European friends are gone. Personally I have between half a dozen and a dozen favorite Heritage Press editions and I will share their titles in another post.

>17 BuzzBuzzard:

The HP Vicar of Wakefield is one of the exclusives I featured (and which PhotoBucket ruined with their change in hosting policy), and I agree with the fine quality of the production and the entertaining story. It may not have Dickens depth and social conscience, but does not have his faults, either. A very pleasant read by an author who, to paraphrase Maugham, is in the first rank of the second-raters.

When I posted the original thread, it was met with a great sigh of indifference, so it's good to see I'm not the only fan!

>19 BuzzBuzzard: I will keep an eye out for the David Copperfield. Such a shame Robert's pictures were taken down. I hope this doesn't happen to any of the other pictures that are so enjoyed by us.

>22 kdweber: I don't know why one would buy this edition instead of the similar LEC. My LEC edition cost $26.

But that must surely be at the very low end of the prices ever paid for the LEC.

23) I'd prefer to have the LEC myself, but haven't seen one in the wild yet. Someday! And in this case it was a gift, so I can't complain.

24) I've managed to get two LECs for $4 each, but that is certainly luck smiling upon me. Otherwise, my Moll Flanders LEC was $10 I think due to the slipcase being pretty shoddy looking - again, luck.

>24 WildcatJF: My cheapest LEC cost $16 but was only in average condition without a slipcase. Abe has a copy of Reynard the Fox at $13.58 with free shipping. There's also a much nicer copy ("Mint" in original glassine wrapper) for $35 plus shipping. This book is not particularly popular and can usually be found pretty cheaply.

>25 kdweber: One LEC at $4 is pretty amazing. Two, incredible!

Every weekday this October, I'm updating an older post! You can keep tabs here: https://georgemacyimagery.wordpress.com/2017/10/02/october-2017-post-updates/

There's already two done!

>3 WildcatJF: It appears that Easton Press has a reprint of the Untermeyer/Brissaud LEC original from 1954.
I certainly see the merits of the earlier Sauvage edition but I really like the painted illustrations across the text pages as Brissaud did them It reminds me of the Moliere Tartuffe/Bourgeois Gentilhomme LEC/Heritage pair where I got the HP version and then saw the brilliant colors of the LEC version!
My question to you (and anyone else here) is: have you had a chance to view the EP edition-it certainly has a nice cover, leather bound of course) to see how the illustrations production compares? If the LEC is too expensive or hard to find in an acceptable condition, could the EP be a viable substitute?
And yes, in an ideal world one would have both LEC versions.

>28 BuzzBuzzard: This is an easy one. The EP pictures are inferior compared to the LEC original. Check out the EP copies available on eBay. Not to mention printing methods, materials, etc. But is this LEC hard to find?

>29 laotzu225: I guess I was just taken with the cover of the EP edition with an outline of Cyrano on the leather. However I just had an accepted offer (never hurts to try) on what appears to be a quite decent version of the 1954 LEC; so the question is moot.

28) As BuzzBuzzard notes, most of the time the Easton Press (current owners of the Heritage Press imprint, which is why most of their Top 100 books of all time series is mostly Heritage/LEC reprints) editions are nowhere near the quality of the LEC, and are even pretty far down the rung in contrast to the Heritage Press reprints done under the Macy's tenure. Once Cardevon Press took over (the Connecticut period), the overall production values sink pretty low and the Easton editions are at least on par or better than those, but if you have the option to get a LEC or NY Heritage prior to 1970 (or thereabouts), almost always go for that instead.

I don't know if the 1954 Cyrano is rare, but I didn't pay a ton for mine ($25 plus a coupon) and it came in very good condition from ABE. I would imagine the Sauvage edition is rarer due to its age, but I paid the same amount for one in slightly better condition than my Brissaud! So your mileage may vary. The Heritage edition of Cyrano (Brissaud) is really nice, although I do prefer the LEC.

Just to give a brief update, I'm adjusting to a new work schedule which is both earlier and longer, so I expect that updates will continue next week.

Oh hi

New post for you on the LEC Barchester Towers!
https://georgemacyimagery.wordpress.com/2018/01/14/limited-editions-club-barches...

I realized midway through that I covered the Heritage edition in an earlier post, so I will merge the two in the near future. Don't have the time to now! Enjoy! :)

It's a new post! Enjoy a look at the LEC The Betrothed!

https://georgemacyimagery.wordpress.com/2018/05/12/limited-editions-club-the-bet...

I am surprised how much I enjoyed this one. Excellent story and quite a nice production.

So I'm going to put something up to a vote.

I had adopted a policy against checking out library copies of books primarily because I felt at the time that they would be incomplete or imprecise representations of a particular title. However, I am considering foregoing that policy if I get enough votes in favor of expanding the posts on my blog to once again cover library titles. If you support me doing so, please let me know. :)

Jerry, would these be Macy books?

36) Of course! :) I should have specified that earlier.

>37 WildcatJF:

I have no problem at all, and the more entries on the George Macy Imagery the better!

38) Fantastic! I think I might just go ahead with it then. Of course, any one else who has thoughts on the matter please do add them. :)

BTW, I plan to get my remaining LEC post done this weekend for Story of an African Farm, so please look forward to it!

I concur! no issue with library copies

Love to see them. My fave local bookstore has a bunch of Macy titles I can't afford and I've thought of asking for permission to take photos and post something.

40 - 41) Thank you for the additional input. I have already planned to head over to my university library Thursday to take stock of what they have. Apparently they have a few LECs in their rare collection, but I don't know how they would feel with me taking photos of them. I'll find out!

Looking forward to your post on the Schreiner book--really a classic which hasn't received the recognition it deserves. And the LEC edition is very special for a later LEC.

Another African classic that I wish had received the fine press treatment by the LEC is West with the Night. I suppose because I spent some time in Africa these books have such a strong appeal, but I do think both of them have great general interest. Have any members here read them, and do you think they deserve classic status?

43) It ought to be interesting to write, considering its legacy within the Macy canon. And it is quite nice indeed. I just need to retake a few photos for it and get the monthly letter scanned, and I have some time off to tackle it this week. :)

Two posts today!

https://georgemacyimagery.wordpress.com/2018/07/07/limited-editions-club-the-sto... - The Story of an African Farm has been documented, and

https://georgemacyimagery.wordpress.com/2018/07/07/of-interest-bill-majures-brie... - Bill Majure's site has seemingly gone down, so I've taken the liberty of rehosting his bibliography and brief history so it isn't lost.

>45 WildcatJF: Bill Majure's list is still up there. I believe a security certificate has expired and therefore my browser gives a warning when attempting to use the page. I ignore the warning and use the page anyway but thank you for posting a clean copy. I refer to his list all the time.

>45 WildcatJF: Thanks for keeping this information available for us GMD fans.

46) Ah, okay. I just saw the warning and assumed it was having some hosting issues. Still though, I feel it was apropos to rehost it given the circumstances.

>48 WildcatJF: and we appreciate it

And thanks for the post on Story of an African Farm. I've always been a fan of this book, and the BG information on how long and troubled was the history of this LEC is one of those stories which makes me appreciate even more the effort involved.

50) Glad you enjoyed it Robert! It wouldn't have happened without you! :)

Guys - Just a reminder, I have a Google spreadsheet posted that has a list of LEC's (and HPs) based almost entirely around Bill's list, in case his disappears. I also have links to all of the Books and Vines articles on LEC or HP books, which may be of value given that B&V seems to be dormant and not easy to access. I also have all of the LECs and HPs sorted by author and illustrator as well as by title, and since it is all on Google Docs, you can copy and paste the spreadsheets to your own computer and do whatever you want with them (customize one for your collection and you can access it from your phone from a bookstore, e.g.). Careful about the HP list though. I've tried to sync my list, largely from eBay and ABE, with Michael Bussaco's lists, but I haven't gone through everything.
I'd love to make this spreadsheet more useful if anyone wants to help out. E.g., I have about a 140 links to Sandglasses and would love to link to more if anyone wants to forward them to me or post them somewhere themselves and send me a link.
Here's the link:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/104iYrlXLQOyHMHdS0ulKei_wv71yEAeE9LQvvSgK...

>52 SteveJohnson:
Amazing work. Link bookmarked for further reference. Thank you.

52) I'll make a post about this on my blog next week Steve! Things will be mellowing out for me then so I can also update everyone on future posts at the Imagery! :)

Hi all,

Courtesy of a very kind fan of the blog, I have the first of five new Shakespeare posts to share with you ready today: https://georgemacyimagery.wordpress.com/2018/10/07/limited-editions-club-king-jo...

Enjoy this look into King John! More to follow!

PS - SteveJohnson I FINALLY posted about this on my blog; so sorry for the delay in doing so.

>56 WildcatJF:

Thanks for this, Jerry. I hope all of the fans of your site and this one will provide whatever information is needed to make Steve's already outstanding undertaking THE authoritative reference for the LEC and Heritage Press.

52) SteveJohnson, as a FYI Michael Bussacco dropped by my blog to comment about your spreadsheet and offered to help however he could. I believe he is a member here now (?) so you may want to reach out to him to see how he may be able to assist you! :)

I wish Macy had done an edition of Stephens. He reminds me so much of Paul Theroux as a travel writer, bitchy, argumentative, insightful and a really good writer. He makes snide remarks about the number of children who appear to resemble the local priests in many of villages he visits, e.g., and bemoans the terrible hospitality that often leaves him and his companions sleeping in their hammocks in a bug-ridden barn. The other thing about his books is that he was the US govt. rep to the "Government of Central America," which was the name for the country that included what is now southern Mexico (Chiapas, Yucatan) as well as parts of Honduras and Belize. But there was a civil war going on, with one side more royalist and the other more rebel, and Stephens went from one group to the other, trying to figure out which one would win, while not revealing his contacts with the other side.

I spent years looking in used bookstores for Stephens' books, then was visiting my folks in Chattanooga and went to a rundown flea market with my dad and what do I see on a table but one volume, for $5. Later bought two more at an estate sale, so I still don't have a complete set.

Oh yeah, he bought the ruins of the town of Copan, one of the most extensive Mayan sites, for $50 and hauled off what relics he could carry on a few donkeys back to NYC where they ended up at the Museum of Natural History.

Definitely worth a read.

>59 SteveJohnson:

Steve, did you get the Dover reprints? That is what I got back in the mid-1970s after being some of the original works at the LA County Museum of Natural History. Or were you lucky enough to get one of the original Harpers' editions? I agree, if the LEC would have done a complete edition with collograph reproductions of Catherwood's originals, what a treasure.

I bought later, but haven't read, Stephens' Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petraea, and the Holy Land. Maybe while my knee is still rehabilitating....

I read the Dover editions and then decided to try and track down the Harper originals. I have one 2-volume set but only one of the other two volumes. Stephens is such a good writer, though it helps to have his subject matter. I've never managed to get to Copan, although I've been to Palenque and Tikal, which are pretty amazing. I have a friend who lives in Mexico City who introduced me to that country and on one visit my girlfriend and I bumped into an archaeologist who invited us to accompany him to Tula (the Toltec capital) and we visited Teotihuacan and I was hooked. BTW, did you see the LA Museum's Teotihuacan exhibit back in the 1990s, I think?
The OTHER book similar to Stephens I wish LEC had done is Layard's book about his excavations in Ninevah. Like Stephens, he's officially representing his government to keep an eye on the Ottomans and French and he's constantly dealing with the Bedouins who swoop down to steal his supplies and horses. And he's also hiring 100 workers to dig out these massive ruins that are now a big part of the British Museum and then somehow get them to the Euphrates and into a boat and back to England. He's like 28 years old at the time.
Hope the knee is getting back in shape. Although isn't it time for you to be cutting back on work?

I missed the Teotihucan exhibit, though I had been to the site itself in the mid-1980s. Have always wanted to go to the Mayan sites and perhaps will after retirement (which hopefully will be while I can still get around pretty well).

I had not heard of Layard's book before. Since that ancient civilization has always fascinated me, it looks as if a trip to the library is required--thanks Steve!

>61 SteveJohnson: >62 Django6924:
Folio Society published an edition of Layard, now OOP. It features numerous in-text as well as full-page drawings and color plates. It also has Layard's appendices covering a whole range of subjects ranging from maps and various interesting tables, such as "Names of Kings, Countries, Cities, etc. mentioned in the Old Testament, which occur in the Assyrian inscriptions" that I photographed below, to music sheets of local music and chemical composition of discovered specimens. Took some pictures with my phone, so they're not the best, but will give you an idea about the edition:

>63 elladan0891:

Thank you (I think)--hope I can find one on this side of the pond for a reasonable price.

Hi all,

It's been quite a month. I live near where the Camp Fire devastated Northern California, and have been dealing with bad air and even evacuated (thankfully my house is safe). And now my laptop's dying. So I do have four more LEC Shakespeares to post about, but they won't come about until December. I will be heading to Monterey again this Christmas so I will likely bring back a LEC or two from there as well.

Just wanted to provide an update! Happy Thanksgiving!

>65 WildcatJF:

Very happy to hear the fires spared your house. Looking forward to the next post!

Hi all,

Updates will begin next week when I return from vacation!

Hi everyone,

I have just finished the photography of the seven books I have to update on the blog! Expect these to start going up in the next day or two. Out of curiosity, which of these would you like to see first? (One book is an update to an Heritage exclusive I used a library copy for, so I'm excluding it from the tally below)

LEC Shakespeare:
Macbeth – Gordon Craig
The Tempest – Edward A. Wilson
The Merry Wives of Windsor – Gordon Ross
Two Gentlemen from Verona – Pierre Brissaud

Snow-Bound by John G. Whittier/Carl Purrington Rollins
The Physiology of Taste by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin/Sylvain Sauvage

>68 WildcatJF: The Physiology of Taste

>68 WildcatJF:

I'm with Ken, this is a book I still would like to get some day.

Read the post on "The Physiology of Taste." The problem with pigskin is that unless it is used at full thickness, it is weak and prone to rapid wear. It appears to me that they probably split the hides used for this book resulting in a weak leather. I have several books bound in pigskin where it was used full thickness and the bindings on these are tough as nails.

Both LEC and Heritage used serveral problematical binding materials and papers, which is most unfortunate.

>71 Glacierman: The binding is strong and not well worn on my copy. My copy does have a darkened spine and this is a problem that I have seen on every copy I have ever laid eyes on.

Finally I can post here! Not sure what bit of internet code was messing up the threads for me, but I wasn't able to actually submit anything.

As Glacierman notes, I added up the post on Physiology yesterday: https://georgemacyimagery.wordpress.com/2018/12/27/limited-editions-club-the-phy...

>71 Glacierman: Between tappa or bark-cloth, ass or ostrich hide, silk or denim the LE Club pushed the envelope of binding materials. I am not aware of any other publisher old or new that experimented with materials to such a degree. Successfully at that. Thus I think the occasional misfire should be forgiven. Not to say a big word but excepting Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (that is not on my watch list) I have seen every other LEC in fine condition. Including an original Moby Dick.

My copy of Physiology of Taste:

>74 BuzzBuzzard: Looks just like my copy except with a perfect spine!

Wow, that is a perfect copy! Nice find!

I plan to put up another post later today!

The Two Gentlemen of Verona has been posted! https://georgemacyimagery.wordpress.com/2018/12/30/limited-editions-club-the-two...

It also cleared up some publication confusion I had about the Brissaud Cyrano, so I've amended that post as well!

I'm pleased to announce I've upgraded my image manipulation software today, and made a quick post spotlighting the enhancements I can potentially bring to the table for the blog here: https://georgemacyimagery.wordpress.com/2019/01/01/site-news-image-software-upgr...

My next book post should be this weekend!

Today I've got a post for Macbeth: https://georgemacyimagery.wordpress.com/2019/01/06/limited-editions-club-macbeth...

This one is the first where I utilized my new photo editing software to touch up the photos a little to bring the original vibrancy to my shots.

Jerry, Craig's illustrations were a big letdown for me when I got the LEC Shakespeare. I'm also a big fan of this play, and had heard the name of Gordon Craig touted for many years as the most innovative stage designer/director of the first quarter of the 20th century. I was expecting something remarkable from his designs for Macbeth, but found them merely adequate.

Of all the productions of the play I've seen--filmed and live--the only ones I can say I found inspired were Orson Welles' flawed (but visually brilliant) film from the late 1940s and Kurosawa's resetting in medieval Japan, Throne of Blood.

Today's post is apropos for the season, as well as being the earliest publication of the LEC I've covered as of today: Snow-Bound from John Greenleaf Whittier!

https://georgemacyimagery.wordpress.com/2019/01/12/limited-editions-club-snow-bo...

>81 WildcatJF: I like the boards a lot. By the way yhe book is 89 but not 79 years old.

>81 WildcatJF:
Good to see this on your site! It's one of my favourite LECs, less for its content than Carl Purington Rollins' beautiful design work.
I don't think Alice Hubbard Stevens illustrated anything else for Macy, but she is a curiously elusive artist. I've found only two references to her work. One is to a portrait called 'Summer Evening', which was included in a December 1927 exhibition staged to accompany the first Annual Silver Tea of the Alumnae Council of the University of New Hampshire. The very worthy aim of this event was to raise money to bring further art exhibits to the girls' dormitories (in the hope perhaps of displacing the posters/photos of John Gilbert, Janet Gaynor, Douglas Fairbanks, George O'Brien, Sebastian and the fecund Flash, Roman Navarro and other heart-throbs of the day).
Private life: she was born Mary Alice Hubbard in Indiana in or about 1897, the daughter of a home school teacher. In 1927 she married Clark Leavitt Stevens, an alumnus of, and later forestry professor at, the University of New Hampshire. He died in 1973, she lived on until 2001. Dying at the age of 104, makes her not only the first female LEC artist (glad you mentioned that, it hadn't occurred to me) but probably the second longest-lived LEC artist of any sex.
There is, however, a second Alice Hubbard, also born in Indiana in or about 1897. She was the middle daughter of a large farming family – a suitably rural background for someone illustrating Snow-Bound. The two Alice Hubbards have unfortunately become confused on some genealogical sites, but I can't find any evidence that the farming daughter married anyone called Stevens.
So I think the photo below of Mary Alice Hubbard is a gen-u-ine picture of Alice Hubbard Stevens, taken perhaps round about the time of her marriage:

82) Good catch, I had a feeling that math was wrong but forgot to double check it.
83) This is marvelous; would you mind if I used a bit of this info on my blog?

>84 WildcatJF:
Help yourself!

85) Thank you! I'll get that added this weekend.

I have received a rather exciting piece of George Macy history that I will be uploading this weekend in full. It is from one of our gracious Devotees, but I will let them choose if to announce themselves. It is the Heritage Press' announcement of its intention to publish in 1935, and discusses the first six books in some detail, as well as some background as to its formation.

I will post again once it is live on the blog!

>86 WildcatJF: Kinda thought you'd get a kick out of that!

As promised, here's the Heritage Press 1935 announcement post!
https://georgemacyimagery.wordpress.com/2019/01/27/of-interest-the-original-heri...

Any way to download this? My eyes are too old to appreciate the content!

Same here!

>89 Django6924: >90 UK_History_Fan:
On a Mac you can just drag each image from the website onto the desktop, double click on the thumbnail and then it shows up as a full screen jpg image, and can be enlarged further if desired.
You could then copy each image onto a full A4 page in a word file, and keep it there for easier reference.

>89 Django6924: >90 UK_History_Fan::
If anybody wants a scan of that brochure, LMK and I'll send it to you. Just PM me with your e-mail addy.

Hi all,

I'll work on assembling a pdf of this for you to put in our Google Drive.

>91 wcarter:

Very nice--thanks for the tip!

There is a complete scan of this in the LEC folder in the Drive. Folder name starts with 1935 Heritage....

91-95: Thank you for getting this uploaded! I hope it's at a better size for you all.

>96 WildcatJF: Truth be told it has been there for some time now. I think it should be moved to the HP Sanglass folder. This is probably why most people missed it. The folder also contains a typed letter announcing the Heritage Press that was sent to LEC subscribers.

Hello friends!

I'm going to resume posting this weekend, and will let you all decide the next book I post. I've accumulated a few since I last put up something!

LEC:

The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
The Song of Roland – Valenti Angelo*
Hard Times by Charles Dickens/Charles Raymond*
Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence/Sheila Robinson
On the Nature of Things by Lucretius/Paul Landacre
The Revolt of the Angels by Anatole France/Pierre Watrin*

Shakespeare:
The Tempest – Edward A. Wilson
The Merry Wives of Windsor – Gordon Ross

Heritage:
The Song of Songs that are Solomon’s – Valenti Angelo

Any with an asterisk will be an updated comparison post. Voting will be up through tomorrow!

>98 WildcatJF: The Song of Roland!

>98 WildcatJF: First choice - The Song of Roland, second choice - On the Nature of Things (my first LEC).

On the Nature of Things.

Another vote for On the Nature of Things

Okay, I'll get On the Nature of Things up sometime today! Song of Roland will be next! Thanks all!

https://georgemacyimagery.wordpress.com/2019/04/14/limited-editions-club-of-the-...

Here's the post on Lucretius!

>104 WildcatJF: As always, thank you again for your efforts. I'm sure I'm not alone in enjoying your reviews. This book holds special meaning for me as it was my first LEC purchase. I was only looking for a nice leather bound version of Lucretius but was blown away by its quality when it arrived. I quickly checked for the publisher and saw that it was put out by a company I had never heard of. I wanted more! I went online and found LibraryThing and this group.

Work is finally settling down (I work at a university and we just had commencement) so expect more posts in late May into June!

As The Song of Roland was second place in our vote, here is a comparison post revamp of the LEC and Heritage edition: https://georgemacyimagery.wordpress.com/2019/05/26/heritage-press-the-song-of-ro...

Next week we'll likely dive back into more LEC Shakespeare as I've photographed those already.

>107 WildcatJF: Great post, as always. What a gorgeous book! Now I have to find a copy for myself. Thanks!

It is an exceptional book! And not just visually: the Pannekoek rag paper has that delightful texture you can't get today, even in many fine press books. My only criticism is that I would have preferred they used Dorothy Sayers' translation. Scott-Moncrieff's translation is good, but it lacks Sayers superior poetic quality.

Jerry, I'm not surprised the you don't have a slipcase for your LEC: the slipcase on mine fit so tightly it is almost impossible to remove the book without prying it out. I understand this was a common issue with this title.

109) Intriguing, didn't know that! I bet that happened a few times with LEC cases. This copy was from a library, so they might have tossed it when they received it, if it was even included with the donation at all.

As promised, the next LEC Shakespeare post is up for viewing: https://georgemacyimagery.wordpress.com/2019/06/01/limited-editions-club-the-mer...

It's been a long time since Gordon Ross has appeared on my blog, but it's nice to revisit his work in The Merry Wives of Windsor.

Next will likely be a Heritage exclusive detour!

The Song of Solomon will be my next post (which will likely be done at the end of the month), and I am looking for a little help on it. I have a black bound edition that was hand illuminated, but was hoping I could see if anyone here would be willing to share the red leather edition that has Angelo's signature. Credit will be given of course. Thanks in advance!

Sorry, I have only the black (albeit Fine, or near enough to make me happy!) I gave up on ever finding the red in acceptable condition.

I have a red one in transit, but I don't think it is signed. I'll double-check when it arrives. The seller may have overlooked it if it is there. Likely not, but I'll check anyway.

114) I did get a DM with photos of a signed red edition, but I appreciate the gesture Glacierman!

>113 NYCFaddict: I gave up on ever finding the red in acceptable condition.

Yes, they are tough to find. I got lucky. The one on its way to me appears from the photos/description to be VG+ with the spine intact and little wear, w/slipcase. Lord knows I looked at many, many more with some or all of the spine missing, etc. Keep looking!

I plan to resume posting next weekend with Song of Solomon, but want to know what you might want to see next!

LEC:
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
Hard Times by Charles Dickens/Charles Raymond*
Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence/Sheila Robinson
The Revolt of the Angels by Anatole France/Pierre Watrin*

Shakespeare:
The Tempest – Edward A. Wilson

Any with an asterisk will be an updated comparison post.

Revolt of the Angels

Machiavelli.

118, 119) Votes duly counted. I'll work on those next! :)

Meanwhile, enjoy this comparison between the deluxe and standard edition of The Song of Songs Which is Solomon's!

https://georgemacyimagery.wordpress.com/2019/07/14/heritage-press-the-song-of-so...

As requested, an update on Revolt of the Angels is up on the blog!
https://georgemacyimagery.wordpress.com/2019/08/18/heritage-press-the-revolt-of-...

Next month, The Prince!

It's a little later than intended, but The Prince is finally ready: https://georgemacyimagery.wordpress.com/2019/10/05/limited-editions-club-the-pri...

I plan to work on The Tempest LEC later this month!

The design of The Prince is the kind I feel George Macy always held in the highest esteem--classic in the style of Giambattista Bodoni: "well designed and well-cut type, beautifully printed on an exquisite sheet of paper." No illustrations, no overly-elaborate decoration (in fact hardly any at all), as you see in the LECs designed by Dwiggins, Cleland, and in his use of printer's ornaments to make complex and intriguing borders, even the otherwise-austere Bruce Rogers. In terms of quality, it's a Rolls-Royce (from the great days of the marque).

Incidentally, I have both the LEC and the HP version. They are as close to being identical in terms of quality and appearance as you can get.

123) Yes, it definitely looks and feels as you describe, Robert. Good to know the Heritage is high caliber as well.

As promised, here is The Tempest: https://georgemacyimagery.wordpress.com/2019/10/12/limited-editions-club-the-tem...

Next month will be an updated post on Hard Times by Charles Dickens, with the LEC compared to the original Heritage edition.

I rather like Wilson's work here--more so than his illustrations for Robinson Crusoe, Treasure Island, and Last of the Mohicans. I think his work for Jekyll and Hyde is my favorite, followed closely by Westward, Ho!, but The Tempest illustrations have an indescribable appeal for me, although I realize they are not to everyone's taste.

>123 Django6924: Do you mean to say that the HP "Prince" is printed on that same lovely paper as the LEC?

>127 kermaier:

It's not Della Robbia, and the Sandglass does give the manufacturer, but it is a beautiful deckle edge, all-rag paper, thick and with a wonderful textured surface, and is named "Machiavelli"--Macy was always fond of allusions!i

I've got my old Hard Times post updated with new LEC photos and a few extra details:
https://georgemacyimagery.wordpress.com/2019/11/23/heritage-press-hard-times-by-...

Next month, I'll be discussing Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence!

2020 will also be exciting as I will begin my work on books from the 1st, 2nd and 3rd series. As a bit of Thanksgiving fun (as I constantly give thanks to you all for your info, support and views!), we'll open up the voting now!

Fables of Jean de La Fontaine/Rudolph Ruzicka
The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne/Carl Strauss
The Decameron by Giavanni Boccaccio/T.M. Cleland
The Jaunts and Jollities of Mr. John Jorrocks by R.S. Surtees/Gordon Ross

Note that the Decameron will be compared to the later Heritage printing.

Jorrocks. I'm quite fond of this book from the standpoint of design, illustrations, and quality. Surtees is not really my cup of coffee (just as I'm sure many on the other side of the pond find Twain not their cup of tea), but this much of his work is more than acceptable.

Since we've only had one vote, I'm going to go ahead and open up the voting to two additional LECs:

Fables of Jean de La Fontaine/Rudolph Ruzicka
The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne/Carl Strauss
The Decameron by Giavanni Boccaccio/T.M. Cleland (will be compared to the later HP exclusive)
The Jaunts and Jollities of Mr. John Jorrocks by R.S. Surtees/Gordon Ross
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra/Edy Legrand (will be compared to HP reprint)
The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad/Bruce Chandler

Votes will be counted through January 1st!

Expect Sons & Lovers in a few weeks!

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra/Edy Legrand
The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad/Bruce Chandler

:-)

Don Quixote
Secret Sharer.

Guess I could have just said, "ditto!"

My vote goes to The Secret Sharer.

The Secret Sharer

another vote for The Secret Sharer

Well, The Secret Sharer seems...a popular choice haha.

Don Quixote and the Decameron!

Well, even though my suggestion for Jorrock's Jaunts and Jollities was roundly outvoted, I have to say I am pleased with the choice of The Secret Sharer--perhaps my favorite post-Macy LEC. The illustrations are really illustrations and not just exercises in abstraction as are so many of the post-Macy LECs. The production is outstanding: appropriately subdued binding and superb paper and printing.

The story itself has always been one of my favorites, since the time I read it in our high school English literature anthology. Conrad is one of the few authors who could create such a feeling of tension and underlying complexity in a story that is really stripped of all but two characters in a confined space--or are there really two characters?

Many years ago, not long after I read it in high school, I saw on late-night television a movie called "Face to Face" which was a film anthology of The Secret Sharer and Stephen Crane's The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky--a rather odd pairing. I have not seen the film since, but I remember liking it very much. The Crane story seemed to have been more successfully realized than the Conrad, and I don't know whether that was due to my having previously read the Conrad work, but not the Crane, so I had not already visualized how I would have shot the story. I have a feeling that only a director with Alfred Hitchcock's skills could have successfully realized The Secret Sharer.

Hello friends,

A holiday posting for you all to review during the next few days, this time on Sons & Lovers by D.H. Lawrence: https://georgemacyimagery.wordpress.com/2019/12/21/limited-editions-club-sons-an...

Next month, per the almost unanimous vote, will be The Secret Sharer!

after the secret sharer please do a post on don quixote (edy legrand version)

Happy 2020, friends! Believe it or not, but I've been at this for over 9 years now, with December 2020 serving as the ten year anniversary of my blog! As a thanks to everyone who've I met doing this work here at LT, I'll be setting up votes for the books to cover periodically to let you all have a say in what is coming up next! Of course, it'll be based on what I have available at the present time, but I do have enough books lined up to do a post per month all year!

To kick this all off, as requested, I have covered The Secret Sharer for this month's post!

https://georgemacyimagery.wordpress.com/2020/01/20/limited-editions-club-the-sec...

Don Quixote had garnered a fair amount of votes in the last poll, so expect a full LEC/Heritage comparison for February! March will feature Jorrock's Jaunts and Jollities, and April will be on the original LEC Decameron and how the later Heritage edition differs in execution. I'll hold a new vote at that point to determine the next set of books. :) Enjoy!

February's post is a revisit of Don Quixote's Legrand edition, this time with photos and updated info on the LEC!

https://georgemacyimagery.wordpress.com/2020/02/09/heritage-press-don-quixote-by...

As noted, next month will feature Jorrock's Jaunts and Jollities, the debut of Gordon Ross to the LEC!

Thank you Wildcat.

>143 WildcatJF:

Thanks for scheduling Surtees' book--it's not great literature, but is entertaining, a picture of it's time, nd beautifully produced in an unostentatious way.

>1 WildcatJF:

Wildcat, is there an option on the site so that a user can change the text to black and background to white? My poor eyes have a very hard time with the white text on black background. :(

146) Unfortunately, there is not such an option for users to do that with the current theme. I am considering a site look revamp soon though, so I will keep this in mind. :)

>146 EclecticIndulgence:
Three taps on my iPad home button does exactly that.
However, all colors are reversed so three more taps anytime I want to view the photos.

148) Good to know!

I will be doing some work on the blog this weekend, so I'll see what I can do on my end.

I've put up a brand new design for the blog: https://georgemacyimagery.wordpress.com/

Hopefully this will be much easier on the eyes than its predecessor was!

Later today I will have my March post on Jorrocks, too!

Looks good but for the annoying ads.

151) I can't do much about that beyond recommending putting an adblock app onto your browser. The ads don't help me any, so don't worry. I use UBlock on Firefox and it works wonders!

>152 WildcatJF: I like the temperate colors and sparse lay-out, very pleasing to the eye. I got served two ads all the way down, both from WordPress itself, not all that bothered to be honest. Keep up the good work!

153) Thanks! I'm glad; that was what I was going for.

Today's post on John Jorrock's adventures is up: https://georgemacyimagery.wordpress.com/2020/03/31/limited-editions-club-the-jau...

I'll have a comparison piece on The Decameron next month!

>150 WildcatJF:

The change in layout design and colour is FANTASTIC. Thank you!! Now I can explore the content with ease :)

155) Great! I'm glad you can enjoy the blog again! :)

All right, I wanted to share some of my plans for the next few months with you.

April will be The Decameron's first LEC, which I will compare with the later Heritage version. That'll possibly be as soon as this weekend.

May will be Leaves of Grass' first LEC publication, compared to the later Heritage exclusive.

June, July and August will be devoted to the three sets of Evergreen Tales I recently acquired.

September through December will be chosen by you! Choose three of the following you would most like to see, and I'll cover the four that are deemed the most popular.

Fables of Jean de La Fontaine/Rudolph Ruzicka
The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne/Carl Strauss
Poems of Heinrich Heine/Fritz Kredel
Camille by Alexandre Dumas fils/Bernard Lamotte
Eighty Days Around the World by Jules Verne/Edward A. Wilson
The Age of Fable by Thomas Bulfinch/Joe Mugnaini
Orations and Essays by Cicero/Salvatore Fiume
Youth/Typhoon/The End of Tether by Joseph Conrad/Robert Shore
The School of Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan/Rene ben Sussan
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy/Agnes Miller Parker
Imaginary Conversations by Walter Savage Landor
The Pastoral Loves of Daphnis and Chloe by George Moore Longus/Ruth Reeves
The Cloister in the Hearth by Charles Reade/Lynd Ward
Fairy Tales by the Brothers Grimm/Fritz Kredel (LEC/Heritage edition with Corcos' artwork)
Travels in Arabia Deserta by Charles M. Doughty/Edy Legrand

Thank you!

>157 WildcatJF: Herewith my preferences:

1. Doughty. Arabia Deserta
2. Fontaine. Fables
3. Sheridan. School for Scandal

>157 WildcatJF:

Jerry, my preference would be for the one that you have read, but if these, being recent acquisitions, are in your TBR pile, my votes would be, in order of my own fondness for the works:

1. The Pastoral Loves of Daphnis and Chloe
2. The Age of Fable
3. Youth/Typhoon/The End of Tether

Not necessarily in order of preference my vote goes to:

1) Daphnis and Chloe
2) School for Scandal
3) Jude the Obscure

I wonder how read is Hardy today. I couple of years ago Don peaked my curiosity with a comment about the Mayor of Casterbridge. I read it and thus fell in love with Hardy. I have since read all Hardy novels published by the LEC plus The Return of the Native. I liked them all but would leave reading Jude last since it is the best. Along with Tess a very close second.

159) I picked Leaves of Grass for May precisely because of my familiarity with the work, haha. All of the ones up for vote I have yet to read, sadly (outside of some of the Grimm tales).

I would love to hear about:

1. Eighty Days Around the World
2. Youth/Typhoon/The End of Tether
3. The Pastoral Loves of Daphnis and Chloe

Thanks!

Looks like Daphnis and Chloe is the most popular choice thus far! Since I just bulked up my options considerably, I'm going to close this month's vote and reopen it in May to determine the rest of the books to cover for 2020.

May will be Leaves of Grass' first LEC publication, compared to the later Heritage exclusive. That is of course provided I actually get the book, given I'm still sitting on a pre-shipment notice on the tracking. If it doesn't show, I'll figure out an alternative...probably a LEC/HP comparison of Penguin Island.

June, July and August will be devoted to the three sets of Evergreen Tales I recently acquired.

September will be Daphnis and Chloe, again, provided it arrives.

As noted, we'll determine the rest next month.

In other news, The Decameron has been updated with the LEC original from 1930 - https://georgemacyimagery.wordpress.com/2020/04/12/heritage-press-the-decameron-...

Grimm
Cicero
Daphnis & Chloe

Okay, I've received most of the books I mentioned in my last post, so I'm reopening the vote.

As a reminder, May will be the 1929 Leaves of Grass (which will be compared to the Heritage edition). June, July and August will be the three sets of Evergreen Tales I have, while September will be Daphnis and Chloe.

Pick three of the following you'd most like to see:

Fables of Jean de La Fontaine/Rudolph Ruzicka
The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne/Carl Strauss
Poems of Heinrich Heine/Fritz Kredel
Camille by Alexandre Dumas fils/Bernard Lamotte
Eighty Days Around the World by Jules Verne/Edward A. Wilson
The Age of Fable by Thomas Bulfinch/Joe Mugnaini
Orations and Essays by Cicero/Salvatore Fiume
Youth/Typhoon/The End of Tether by Joseph Conrad/Robert Shore
The School of Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan/Rene ben Sussan
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy/Agnes Miller Parker
Imaginary Conversations by Walter Savage Landor
The Cloister in the Hearth by Charles Reade/Lynd Ward
Fairy Tales by the Brothers Grimm/Fritz Kredel (comparison to the later Heritage edition)
Travels in Arabia Deserta by Charles M. Doughty/Edy Legrand
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra/Enric-Cristobal Ricart (comparison with the later LEC/Heritage)
The Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel by Charles de Coster/Richard Floethe
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer/George Jones (comparison with the later LEC/Heritage)
The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi, aka Richard Burton/Valenti Angelo
Vathek by William Beckford/Valenti Angelo
The Book of Job, illustrated by Arthur Szyk
Penguin Island by AnatoleFrance/Malcolm Cameron (comparison with Heritage)
The Book of Ruth, illustrated by Arthur Szyk
The Chronicles of England by Jean Froissart/Henry C. Pitz
A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe/Domenico Gnoli (comparison with Heritage)
Daisy Miller by Henry James/Gustave Nebel
Lady Windermere’s Fan and The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde/Tony Walton
The Adventures of Simplicius Simplicissimus by Johann von Grimmelshausen/Fritz Eichenberg
Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare/Hugo Steiner-Prag
Pericles, Prince of Tyre by William Shakespeare/Stanislas Ostoja-Chrostowski
Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare/George Buday
Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare/Nikolai Fyodorovitch Lapshin

>165 WildcatJF:
Arabia Deserta
Canterbury Tales
Camille

>165 WildcatJF:
The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi
The School of Scandal
Daisy Miller

Grimm
Cicero
Canterbury

Kasidah of Haji Abdu el Yezdi
Arabia Deserta
Simplicius Simplicissimus

Going to let the vote continue through Friday; if you haven't picked three books yet, do so now! :)

Orations and Essays by Cicero/Salvatore Fiume
Travels in Arabia Deserta by Charles M. Doughty/Edy Legrand
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer/George Jones

All right, let's see who won the vote!
Arabia Deserta 3
Canterbury Tales 3
Camille
The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi 2
The School of Scandal
Daisy Miller
Grimm
Cicero 2
Simplicius Simplicissimus

All right, so the lineup for October through December will be the following:
Travels in Arabia Deserta by Charles M. Doughty/Edy Legrand
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer/George Jones
The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi, aka Richard Burton/Valenti Angelo

Since The Kasidah hit two votes a little earlier, I'm going to let that one be December's book. However, I will put the Cicero into January 2021's slot since it tied. :)

So to recap the upcoming posts for 2020:
May - Leaves of Grass (1929), comparison with the Heritage
June, July, August - The 1st, 3rd and 4th set of Evergreen Tales. This will cover all three books per set.
September - Daphnis and Chloe
October - Travels in Arabia Deserta
November - The Canterbury Tales, comparison with the later Szyk LEC and Heritage
December - The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi

I photographed Leaves of Grass today so expect it soonish. :)

Hm, my post disappeared, so let's try again:

Hi all,

Today I got my look at the 1929 Leaves of Grass up on my blog, alongside a revised look at the Heritage exclusive featuring the talents of Rockwell Kent - https://georgemacyimagery.wordpress.com/2020/05/10/heritage-press-leaves-of-gras...

I'm making a small change up to the summer scheduling for my blog. This month I'm going to go ahead and combine the three Evergreen Tales sets I have into one gigantic post. As I acquire the other two sets, I will expand upon that particular post. I feel that it makes sense to include all of the Evergreen Tales together, so that's what I will do in the next couple of days.

However, there's a second reason I want to make a formatting change, and that's because I've acquired some books since the last vote I would like to personally spotlight in July and August. One is The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Gustave Flaubert, because Warren Chappell's design and illustrations are sensational and I feel it hasn't gotten its due as one of the greats in the LEC canon. The second is Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll, which I expect to arrive tomorrow. I got this for quite a bargain and while I don't know if this is a Hargraves signed copy or not as of yet (I'd be personally shocked if it was), this particular book was one of those I never expected to buy at a reasonable price, so I'm excited about sharing it. If I've been hoodwinked, I will let you know and will cover another title I've recently acquired, Far Away and Long Ago by W.H. Hudson.

So, July will bring Through the Looking Glass or Far Away and Long Ago, and August Temptation of Saint Anthony. The rest of the schedule will not change.

>174 WildcatJF: The Flaubert Temptation... is a most excellent choice. It is indeed a lovely book. The slipcase of my copy has suffered much, but it has done its job and protected the book, which is in excellent condition. I agree that it is overlooked and deserves the attention you will give it. Thanks!

I have never seen a copy with a slipcase that is even NF.

>175 Glacierman: >176 NYCFaddict: That shiny blue slipcase does not hold up well. I used hobby enamel to touch up my slipcase so it doesn't look so bad on the shelf but it did protect the book.

>177 kdweber: >176 NYCFaddict: That is another case of poor materials choice for slipcases from the LEC. Their slipcase construction methods, while inexpensive, leave much to be desired as they are dependent entirely on the covering material to hold them together. This is a generalization, and to be sure there are exceptions, but they are few.

I spent literally all morning working on my comprehensive report on The Evergreen Tales: https://georgemacyimagery.wordpress.com/2020/06/28/limited-editions-club-the-eve...

This is the longest post on the site I think! If anyone has any info on the creation on this subseries of books in the LEC canon, please let me know! Enjoy!

Also, I've made a pdf of the LEC Bibliography. This takes Bill Majure's work with additional comments from my own observations on the books: https://georgemacyimagery.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/lec-checklist-2020.pdf

Lastly, I've decided to go ahead and plot out the books I'm going to cover for the next year, lol.
July – Through the Looking Glass (LEC)
August – Temptation of Saint Anthony (LEC)
September – Daphnis and Chloe (LEC)
October – Travels in Arabia Deserta (LEC)
November – The Canterbury Tales (1st LEC, comparison with the later Szyk LEC and Heritage)
December – The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi (LEC)
January – Orations and Essays by Cicero (LEC)
February – At the Sign of the Queen Pedauque (LEC)
March – Far Away and Long Ago (LEC)
April – The Book of Ruth (LEC, comparison to Heritage)
May – Vathek
June – August 2021 – Devotee’s Choice

A lot of great stuff up there to look forward to!

>179 WildcatJF: Thank you for another most interesting post. I started collecting The Evergreen Tales in 2011 and picked up the final set in late 2018 when I grew impatient and paid a little more to complete the collection. Unfortunately for you, the purchase was from Powell's Books and inscribed to the Cutler children. Yes, copy #1993. As with your sets, all the books are in mint condition in a very nice but slightly faded slipcase.

>180 kdweber: haha I do mention that you bought the fifth set, just not in name. No harm no foul!

Today brings a post I just never thought I'd be writing, and even after doing it I'm still a little stunned, haha: https://georgemacyimagery.wordpress.com/2020/07/18/limited-editions-club-through...

Enjoy this look at Through the Looking Glass, an exquisite book I am elated to own!

>182 WildcatJF: Congratulations on your wonderful purchase. I doubt I will ever be able to own this book. I love to see the happiness like yours when reaching a goal that seemed impossible.

Happy for you Jerry! Now you need to get Alice in Wonderland, hopefully housed in a Through the Looking Glass slipcase.

>182 WildcatJF: The "red" Alice came in a blue slipcase while the "blue" Looking Glass came in a red slipcase.

>183 Jan7Smith: You never know, I picked up a NF copy of Alice (sans slipcase, monthly letter, signature, or any other ephemera) for a very good price. Looking Glass, sans signature, can usually be found for pretty reasonable prices and much cheaper than Alice.

>182 WildcatJF: I just ordered the 1943 Jane Eyre/Wuthering Heights set. Thanks for the enabling blog post!

>183 Jan7Smith: Thank you! While confirming some pricing I did see a couple unsigned TtLG for $300 or so. Still a pretty penny, but not into the stratosphere the signed ones are!

>184 Django6924: Someday! Currently all of the Alice copies I see online are on the holy bleep range, haha. Thanks!

>185 kdweber: Yeah, I've been looking haha. It's a classy design touch!

>186 ubiquitousuk: lol Yay I think?

Hello friends!

Today brings a very different sort of post, as I've just published my first book, a collection of two short stories about the Ancient Maya called "Maya Moments"! Details can be found here: https://georgemacyimagery.wordpress.com/2020/07/29/of-interest-ive-published-a-b...

I'm very excited to share this news as it's been a longtime milestone to publish a book. :)

I'll be back next month with another LEC for review, The Temptation of Saint Anthony!

>188 WildcatJF: When I click on the Amazon link, I get a "Page Not Found" error page.

>189 Glacierman: Whoops, that was a carryover from my transferring the post from my general blog. Thanks for telling me, the link is fixed!

Today I bring one of my favorites I've acquired this year, the stunning Warren Chappell designed and illustrated LEC of The Temptation of Saint Anthony!
https://georgemacyimagery.wordpress.com/2020/08/15/limited-editions-club-the-tem...

Hi all,

I've been notified that there is a possible problematic ad that could try to install malware on my blog. I investigated this myself in a different browser and I did not have the same result, but I felt I should be transparent. Since I do not control the ad content on my blog (Wordpress does), I don't know how else I can recommend safeguarding yourselves beyond installing an ad block application on your browser of choice. I use UBlock on Firefox and it has done wonders. You won't be taking any any revenue from me if you do this, so please feel free to use such means to make perusing my site more welcoming and enjoyable to you.

My apologies this is even an issue! I may consider buying into their ad-free service at some point to get rid of ads altogether. They're really annoying (and now apparently malicious) and I don't ever see them myself until I hear about it from a reader and look into it with another browser.

>192 WildcatJF: No alerts from my virus checker when I viewed the site.

I see you slipcase has the same problems as mine. I used some blue enamel hobby paint to clean up the slipcase some so it wouldn't stand out so much on the bookcase.

>193 kdweber: that's good! I'm hoping that was a weird fluke.

Yeah, the book is pretty much perfect but the case took a bit of a beating. I'm not super particular on slipcase condition unless they're literally falling apart, but that's a smart way of touching it up.

Decided to get this month's post done early, as it's a favorite of mine: enjoy this look at the Pastoral Loves of Daphnis and Chloe!
https://georgemacyimagery.wordpress.com/2020/09/06/limited-editions-club-the-pas...

>195 WildcatJF:

A favorite of mine as well, and perhaps the most beautiful book issued by th Club under the founder.

As for Whittaker:

...philosopher and theologian Thomas Whittaker, the director of the Rationalist Press Association, whose book The Origins of Christianity was one of the few British works to earn a place in Schweitzer’s Quest of the Historical Jesus. In the recorded dialogue with Whittaker that forms the introduction to The Pastoral Loves of Daphnis and Chloë, Moore reminisces about his writing of The Brook Kerith when the two men ‘talked of the Gospels and the Epistles, of Josephus, Philo-Judaeus, and Apollonius of Tyana’. THE HISTORICAL JESUS AND THE LITERARY IMAGINATION 1860–1920 -by Jennifer Stevens


(Were our much-missed featherwate here, he would surely be able to provide more information.)

Got October's post up, covering the LEC Travels in Arabia Deserta!

https://georgemacyimagery.wordpress.com/2020/10/27/limited-editions-club-travels...

>197 WildcatJF: Doughty's book had been on my list for many years, so when I got the chance to obtain the LEC version at a good price, I jumped on it. Love that wallet binding!

>198 Glacierman: A great edition with a lovely binding. The abridged text is perfect. I only bought the FS LE for the photos and map.