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FOLIO SOCIETY BOOK SERIES AND SETS
With a minimum of five books in a series or set.
Some illustrations show only a selection of the books in a series, and not the complete series.
Listed in alphabetical order by author’s surname, or series title.
Further details about these books can be found on the Complete List of Folio Society Books wiki here.

Douglas Adams Science Fiction (2010-16)

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Life, The Universe and Everything
Mostly Harmless
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish

Ancient Empires

A History of the Vikings by Gwyn Jones
Empires of the Nile by Derek A. Welsby
The Anglo-Saxons by James Campbell
The Aztecs by Nigel Davies
The Aztecs by Richard F. Townsend
The Babylonians by H. W. F. Saggs
The Celts by Nora Chadwick
The Egyptians by Alan Gardiner
The Hittites by O. R. Gurney
The Incas by Nigel Davies
The Maya by Norman Hammond
The Minoans by J. Lesley Fitton
The Mycenaeans / The Decipherment of Linear B by Lord William Taylour
The Normans by David C. Douglas
The Persians by J. M. Cook
The Phoenicians by Glenn E. Markoe

Artist Presentation books

Portrait of Provence: Vincent van Gogh. (1959)
Ballet Dancers: Edgar Degas. (1960)
Four Themes: Pablo Picasso. (1961)
Rembrandt: Paintings, Drawings and Etchings. (1963)
Renoir: Paintings, Drawings, Lithographs and Etchings. (1965)
Paintings, Drawings and Prints: Albrecht Durer. (1969)
Paintings, Drawings and Prints: Francisco Goya (1971)

The Arabian Nights: The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night translated by Powys Mathers & JC Mardrus (2003)
(Six volume set)


Jane Austen
(4 sets 1957-61, 1968, 1975, 2006-17, and Limited Editions 1984 & 1996)

Emma
Mansfield Park
Northanger Abbey
Persuasion
Pride and Prejudice,
Sense and Sensibility
Shorter Works (inc. Lady Susan & Love and Friendship)

Bellicose Series

The Boer War
The Campaigns of Napoleon (The Rise, The Zenith, The Decline)
The Campaigns of Wellington (The Peninsular War 1808-1811, The Peninsular War 1812-1814, The Waterloo Campaign)
The Defeat of the Spanish Armada
The English Civil War (The King's Peace, The King's War, The Trial of Charles I)
The Seven Years War
The Thirty Years War

E. F. Benson’s Mapp and Lucia Novels (1994)

Queen Lucia
Miss Mapp
Lucia in London
Mapp and Lucia
Lucia's Progress
Trouble for Lucia

Michael Bond’s Complete Paddington (2010)
(Distributed by FS but has the Harper Collins logo on the spine)

A Bear Called Paddington
More About Paddington
Paddington Helps Out
Paddington Abroad
Paddington at Large
Paddington Marches On
Paddington at Work
Paddington Goes to Town
Paddington Takes the Air
Paddington On Top
Paddington Takes the Test
Paddington Here and Now

Bronte Sisters set (1991)

Jane Eyre
The Professor
Wuthering heights
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Shirley
Villette
Agnes Grey

John Buchan (2003)

The Thirty-Nine Steps
Greenmantle
Mr Standfast
Short Stories
The Three Hostages
The Island of Sheep

Raymond Chandler’s Novels (1989)

Farewell My Lovely
Playback
The Big Sleep
The High Window
The Lady in the Lake
The Little Sister
The Long Goodbye

Agatha Christie

A Pocket Full of Rye
Body In The Library
Death on the Nile
Five Little Pigs
Miss Marple Short Stories
Murder at the Vicarage
Murder on the Orient Express
Sleeping Murder
The ABC Murders
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Winston S. Churchill’s A History of the English Speaking Peoples (2003)

Vol I The Birth of Britain
Vol II The New World
Vol III The Age of Revolution
Vol IV The Great Democracies
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples since 1900 by Andrew Roberts.

Winston Churchill’s The Second World War (2000)

Vol.1, The gathering Storm
Vol.2, Their Finest Hour
Vol.3, The Grand Alliance
Vol.4, The hinge of Fate
Vol.5, Closing the Ring
Vol.6, Triumph and Tragedy

Winston Churchill’s World Crisis (2007)

Volume 1 1911-1914
Volume 2 1915
Volume 3 1916-1918
Volume 4 The Aftermath
Volume 5 The Eastern Front

Classic Fine Editions
(large books with leather spine/silk boards)

Apocrypha
Faust
Inferno
Jerusalem
Paradise Lost
Paradiso
Purgatorio
Walden

Classical Histories

Thucydides The Peloponnesian War
Herodotus Histories
Livy The early history of Rome
Livy The war with Hannibal
Caesar The Gallic wars
Tacitus The Annals of Imperial Rome

Folio Collectables

A Christmas Carol
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Black Mischief
Cider with Rosie
Down and Out in Paris and London
Frankenstein
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Huckleberry Finn
The Diary of a Nobody
The Hound of the Baskervilles

Joseph Conrad

Almayer’s folly
Arrow of gold
Chance
Duel
Heart of darkness
Lord Jim
Mirror of the sea
Nostromo
Outcast of the islands
The rescue
The rover
The secret agent
The secret sharer
The shadow line
Typhoon
Under western eyes
Victory

Susan Cooper’s The Dark Is Rising series

Over Sea Under Stone
The Dark Is Rising
Greenwich
The Grey King
Silver On The Tree

Roald Dahl set (2002)

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
James and the Giant Peach
Matilda
The BFG
The Witches

Dark Histories (Medieval Disasters)

The Black Death
The Elizabethan Underworld
The Great Fire of London
The Great Plague
The Monks of War
The Princes in the Tower
The Spanish Inquisition

Elizabeth David’s Cook Books

Mediterranean Food
Italian Food
Summer Cooking
French Country Cooking
French Provincial Cooking
Christmas
An Omelette and a Glass Of Wine

Charles Dickens
(Three incomplete sets 1952-7, 1970, 2015-17. Comprehensive sets 1981-89, 1994, 2003-7)


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes : Complete Stories (1993)

A Study in Scarlet
His Last Bow
The Adventures
The Case-Book
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Memoirs
The Return
The Sign of the Four
The Valley of Fear

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Complete Sherlock Holmes : The Short Stories (1994)

The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
His Last Bow
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

George Eliot’s Complete Novels (1999)

Adam Bede
The Mill on the Floss
Silas Marner
Romola
Felix Holt: The Radical
Middlemarch
Daniel Deronda

Fairy Tales Classics

A Midsummer Night’s Dream
A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys
East of the Sun and West of the Moon
Grimm’s Fairy Tales
Hans Andersen’s Fairy Tales
Perault’s Fairy Tales
Tales From Shakespeare
Tanglewood Tales
The Adventures of Robin Hood
The Arabian Nights
The Fables of Aesop

Ian Fleming’s James Bond series (2015-22)

Casino Royale
Diamonds are Forever
Dr. No
From Russia With Love
Goldfinger
Live and Let Die
Moonraker
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
The Man With the Golden Gun
The Spy Who Loved Me
Thunderball
You Only Live Twice
For Your Eyes Only

Folio Miniature books (1975-1977)

Covent Garden Memories and Traditions
Derby Day
History of the Circus, The
Houses of Parliament, The
London Zoo, The
Making of Kew, The
Nicholas Hilliard
Pleasures and People in Bath
Pyne’s Royal Residences
Royal Pavilion at Brighton, the
Staffordshire Pottery
Tower of London, The

Folio Press Fine Editions (1987-1991)

Barrack-room ballads, by Rudyard Kipling.
De profundis, by Oscar Wilde.
Domestic manners and private life of Sir Walter Scott, by James Hogg
Dorset poems, by William Barnes. Translations by Pauline Tennant,
Lays of ancient Rome, by Thomas Babington Macaulay.
Love poems, by Robert Graves.
Motley and other poems, by Walter de la Mare.
On the morning of Christ's nativity, & other poems, by John Milton
Peter Grimes, the poor of the borough, by George Crabbe.
Poems by Charlotte, Emily Jane & Anne Bronte.
Poems from the Greek anthology. Translated by James Michie.
Poems of war, by Wilfred Owen.
The Anglo-Saxon elegies. Translated and introduced by Kevin Crossley-Holland.
The Aspern papers, by Henry James.
The life of Dr John Donne, late Dean of St Paul's Church, London, by Izaak Walton.
The rape of the lock, an heroi-comical poem in five cantos, by Alexander Pope.
The tower, by W. B Yeats. Introduction by Bel Mooney.
The wonderful year 1603, by Thomas Dekker.
These things also are spring's, poems by Edward Thomas.
Woman in white, poems by Emily Dickinson.

Folk Tales of Britain edited by Katharine Briggs (2011)

- Legends I, II, III
- Narratives I, II, III

C.S. Forester - Hornblower Series

Saga 1:-
Mr Midshipman Hornblower
Lieutenant Hornblower
Hornblower and the Hotspur
Saga 2:-
Hornblower and the Atropos
The Happy Return
A Ship of the Line
Flying Colours
Saga 3 :-
Admiral Hornblower
The Commodore
Lord Hornblower
Hornblower in the West Indies

E. M. Forster’s Novels (1996)

A Passage to India
A Room with a View
Howards End
Maurice
The Longest Journey
Where Angels Fear to Tread

Elizabeth Gaskell

Wives and Daughters
North and South
Mary Barton
Sylvia’s lovers
Ruth

Edward Gibbon’s History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
(Published progressively 1983 to 1991, and 8 volume set 1995)

Vol I - The Turn of the Tide (1983)
Vol II - Constantine and the Christian Empire (1984)
Vol III - The revival and collapse of Paganism (1985)
Vol IV - The end of the Western Empire (1986)
Vol V - Justinian and the Roman law (1987)
Vol VI - Mohammed and the rise of the Arabs (1988)
Vol VII - The Normans in Italy and the crusades (1989)
Vol VIII - The fall of Constantinople and the Papacy in Rome (1990)
Memoirs of My Life by Edward Gibbon (1991)

Graham Greene

- THE COMPLETE ENTERTAINMENTS (1996)
A Gun for Sale
Our Man in Havana
Stamboul Train
The Confidential Agent
The Ministry of Fear
The Third Man
- THE GREAT NOVELS (1997)
A Burnt Out Case
Brighton Rock
The End of the Affair
The Heart of the Matter
The Power and the Glory
The Quiet American
- OTHERS
The Comedians,
The Human Factor.
Travels with my Aunt

Great Philosophers of the Ancient World

Aristotle - Ethics
Cicero - On the Good Life
Lucretius - On the Nature of Things
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations
Plato - The republic
Seneca - Letters from a Stoic
(All except "Meditations" were also issued as a five volume single slipcase set)

Greek Tragedies (2011)

I Aeschylus
II Sophocles
III Euripedes
IV Euripedes
V Euripedes

Thomas Hardy

A Changed Man
A Group Of Noble Dames
A Laodicean
A Pair Of Blue Eyes
Desperate Remedies
Far From The Madding Crowd
Jude The Obscure
Life’s Little Ironies
Selected Poems
Tess Of The d’Urbervilles
The Hand Of Ethelberta
The Mayor Of Casterbridge
The Return Of The Native
The Trumpet–Major
The Woodlanders
Two On A Tower
Under The Greenwood Tree/The Well Beloved
Wessex Tales

Ernest Hemingway (1999)

(There are two different bindings for this set)
A Farewell To Arms
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Short Stories
The Old Man And the Sea
The Sun Also Rises
To Have And Have Not

The Folio History of Ancient Greece (2002)

The Lyric Age
The Persian Wars
The Classical Age
The Hellenistic Age
The World of Odysseus

History of England series edited by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto. (1999-2001)
(Binding variant - brown binding)

Britannia: A History of Roman Britain
Anglo-Saxon England
Early Medieval England
England in the Latter Middle Ages
England under the Tudors
England under the Stuarts
England in the Eighteenth Century
England in the Age of Improvement 1783-1867
Victorian England
Edwardian England
England 1914-1945
England 1945-2000

Thomas Hodgkin’s Barbarian Invasion of the Roman Empire (2000-03)

The Visigothic invasion
The Huns and the Vandals
The Ostrogoths
The Imperial Restoration
The Lombard Invasion
The Lombard Kingdom
The Frankish Invasion
The Frankish Empire

Great Humourists
(Originally all bound in gold/silver/bronze material but some re-released in greens and blue buckram)

A Treasury of Mark Twain
More Pick of Punch
The Best After Dinner Stories
The Best of Dorothy Parker
The Best of the Marx Brothers
The Best of the Raconteurs
The Cream of Noel Coward
The Genius of James Thurber
The Pick of Punch
The Plums of PG Wodehouse
The Wit of Oscar Wilde

Kings and Queens of Britain

William the Conqueror (2004)
Henry VIII (2004)
Mary Queen of Scots (2004)
Richard III (2005)
Elizabeth I (2005)
Queen Victoria (2007)

Rudyard Kipling’s Short Stories (2005)

Vol.1, Plain Tales from the Hills, Soldiers Three and other stories
Vol.2, Wee Willie Winkie and other stories and Life's Handicap
Vol.3, Many Inventions and The Day's Work
Vol.4, Traffics and Discoveries, Actions and Reactions and A Diversity of Creatures
Vol.5, A Diversity of Creatures (continued), Debits and Credits and Limits and Renewals

Rudyard Kipling’s Works (1996)

Captain Courageous
Just So Stories
Kim
Poems
Pook of Puck's Hill
Rewards and Fairies
Short Stories
Stalky & Co.
The Jungle Book
The Second Jungle Book

Andrew Lang's Fairy Books

The twelve books listed in order of publication by Lang and then the FS followed by the artist are :-
Blue Fairy Book (1889) (2003) Charles van Sandwyk
Red Fairy Book (1890) (2008) Niroot Puttapipat
Green Fairy Book (1892) (2009) Julian de Narvaez
Yellow Fairy Book (1894) (2008) Danuta Mayer
Pink Fairy Book (1897) (2007) Debra McFarlane
Grey Fairy Book (1900) (2013) Lauren Nassef
Violet Fairy Book (1901) (2010) Bob Venables
Crimson Fairy Book (1903) (2011) Tim Stevens
Brown Fairy Book (1904) (2010) Omar Rayyan
Orange Fairy Book (1906) (2013) Tomislav Tomiç
Olive Fairy Book (1907) (2012) Kate Baylay
Lilac Fairy Book (1910) (2012) Caitlin Hackett
Nursery Rhyme Book (-) (2016) Debra McFarlane & Leonard Leslie Brooke

C. S. Lewis’ Narnia Novels (1996)
(There are two different bindings for this set)

The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
The Magician's Nephew
The Horse and His Boy
Prince Caspian
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Silver Chair
The Last Battle

Limited Editions – Large Quarter Leather Bound series

Gulliver's Travels.
Just So Stories
Wind in the Willows
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam
Alice in Wonderland
Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Limited Edition - Leather Bound and Solander Boxed series

Aeneid
Decameron
Don Quixote
Les Miserables
Moby Dick
Ulysses
War & Peace

Lives of the Founding Fathers (2008)

Alexander Hamilton (withdrawn soon after issue due to copyright issues)
Benjamin Franklin
George Washington
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson

Lost Cities of the Ancient World (2005)

Petra
Pompeii
Knossos
Troy
Babylon

Macaulay’s History of England (2009)

The History of England from 1485 to 1685
The History of England from the accession of James II (5 volumes)
The History of England in the Eighteenth Century

George R R Martin's Game of Thrones series

A Game of Thrones
A Clash of Kings
A Storm of Swords
A Feast for Crows
A Dance with Dragons

Marvel Superheroes

Captain America
Dr. Strange
Hulk
Spider-Man
Thor

Medieval Life (2001-02)

Medieval People by Eileen Powers
Medieval Women by Eileen Powers
Life In a Medieval Castle by Joseph and Frances Gies
Life In a Medieval City by J & F Gies
Life In a Medieval Village by J & F Gies

Myths and Legends

Aeneid, The
British Myths and LegendsFS
Celtic Myths and Legends
Epics of the Middle Ages
Greek Myths
Histories (Herodotus)
Icelandic Sagas I, The
Icelandic Sagas II, The
Iliad, The
Irish Myths and Legends
Legends of King Arthur
Legends of the Grail
Legends of the Ring
Metamorphoses
Myths & Legends of Russia
Myths and Legends of Ancient Rome
Myths and Legends of India
Myths and Legends of the Ancient Near East
Odyssey, The
Peloponnesian War, The

E. Nesbit’s Adventures of the Treasure Seekers, and Adventures of the Five Children
(Two binding variations)

- Adventures of the Treasure Seekers
The Treasure Seekers
The New Treasure Seekers
The Wouldbegoods
- Adventures of the Five Children,
Five Children and It
The Phoenix and the Carpet
The Story of the Amulet

Northanger Set of Horrid Novels (1968)
(Title taken from Northanger Abbey in which Miss Thorpe recommends a collection of 'horrid' novels to Catherine Morland)

Castle of Wolfenbach by Eliza Parsons
Clermont by Regina Maria Roche
The Mysterious Warning by Eliza Parsons
The Necromancerby Karl Friedrich Kahler
The Midnight Bell by Francis Lathom
The Orphan of the Rhine by Eleanor Sleath
Horrid Mysteries by Carl Grosse

Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin books (2008-13)
(In chronological order)

Master and Commander
Post Captain
H.M.S. Surprise
The Mauritius Command
Desolation Island
The Fortune of War
The Surgeon's Mate
The Ionian Mission
Treason's Harbour
The Far Side of the World
The Reverse of the Medal
The Letter of Marque
The Thirtee-Gun Salute
The Nutmeg of Consolation
Clarissa Oakes
The Wine-Dark Sea
The Commodore
The Yellow Admiral
The Hundred Days
Blue at the Mizzen

George Orwell

- Novels (2001)
Burmese Days
A Clergyman's Daughter
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Coming Up for Air
Nineteen Eighty-Four
- Reportage (1998)
Homage to Catalonia
Down and Out in Paris and London
Funny, But Not Vilgar
My Country Right or Left
The Road to Wigan Pier

The Diary of Samuel Pepys Limited Edition (2003)
(11 volume set)


Pliny The Elder’s Natural History (2012)
(Five volume set.)


Poets, Folio Series
(In publication order)

Keats
Wordsworth
Coleridge
Kipling
Donne
Tennyson
Yeats
Shelley
Byron

Poetry Miniatures

The Pied Piper of Hamelin – Robert Browning 1992
Sir Patrick Spens and Other Ballads – Jane Lydbury Illus. 1993
The Raven – Edgar Allan Poe 1995
Fifty Epigrams – illus Peter Forster 1996
The Garden & other poems - Andrew Marvell
Fifty Love Poems - illus Simon Brett
The Lady of Shalott - Alfred Lord Tennyson

The Tales of Beatrix Potter (2007)

- Set 1:
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin
The Tailor of Gloucester
The tale of Benjamin Bunny
The Tale of Two Bad Mice
The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy Winkle
The Tale of the Pie and the Patty Pan
The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher
The Story of Miss Moppet
The Tale of Jemina Puddle-duck
The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies
The Tale of Pigling Bland
- Set 2:
The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit
The tale of Tom Kitten
The Tale of Samuel Whiskers
The Tale of Ginger and Pickles
The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse
The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes
The Tale of Mr. Tod
Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes
The Tale of Jonny Town-Mouse
Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson

Marcel Proust’s In Search Of Lost Time (2000)

1 Swann's Way
2 Within a Budding Grove
3 The Guermantes Way
4 Sodom and Gomorrah
5 The Captive
6 The Fugitive Time Regained

Mary Renault's Greek Dramas (2013-17)

Fire From Heaven
The Perian Boy
Funeral Games
The King Must Die
The Bull From the Sea

Rulers of the Ancient World

Alexander the Great by Robin Lane Fox
Cleopatra by Jack Lindsay
Hannibal by Ernle Bradford
Julius Caesar by Christian Meier
Nero by Michael Grant

Rural Britain Hand Marbled series

Memoirs of a Georgian Rake by William Hickey
Natural History & Antiquities of Selborne.
Our Village by Mary Russell Mitford
Rides Around Britain by John Byng
The Diary of a Country Parson
The Diary of a Village Shopkeeper by Thomas Turner

The Dorothy L Sayers Crime Collection (1998)

Strong Poison
Have His Carcase
Murder Must Advertise
The Nine Tailors
Gaudy Night

Science series

A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawkins
Chaos by James Gleick
The Elegant Unioverse by Graham Greene
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Khun
Parallel Worlds by Michio Kaku

Shakespeare’s Complete Works
(Four series of incomplete sets starting in 1948. Complete sets with all 38 plays and poetry 1988, 1997 and Limited edition 1988 and Letterpress Limited Edition 2007-2013)

Also the Folio Press Complete Works of Shakespeare Shakespeare 1976


Short Stories of Nations

American Short Stories
English Short Stories
French Short Stories
Irish Short Stories
Japanese Short Stories
Russian Short Stories

Georges Simenon's Maigret sets (2018-19)

Set 1:
Maigret and the Calame Report
Maigret and the Saturday Caller
Maigret and the Wine Merchant
Set 2:
Maigret in Society
Maigret Sets a Trap
Maigret’s Mistake

Robert Louis Stevenson

Catriona
Jekyll & Hyde/Weir of Hermiston
Kidnapped
The Master of Ballantrae
Treasure Island

Story of the Middle Ages (1998)

The Birth of the Middle Ages by H.L.B.Moss,
The Crucible of the Middle Ages by Geoffrey Barraclough
The Making Of The Middle Ages by R.W.Southern
The High Middle Ages By John H Mundy
The Waning of the Middle Ages by J Huizinga

The Story of the Renaissance (2001)

Vol.1 The Florentine Renaissance by Vincent Cronin
Vol.2 The Flowering of the Renaissance by Vincent Cronin
Vol.3 The Renaissance in Europe by J.R. Hale
Vol.4 Europe from Renaissance to Reformation by G.R. Elton
Vol.5 Travel and Discovery in the Renaissance by Bois Penrose,

R.S. Surtees (1949-57)

Jorrocks Jaunts and Jollities
Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour
Handley Cross
Mr Facey Romford's Hounds
Plain or Ringlets
Ask Mamma
Hawbuck Grange
Hillingdon Hall

A.J.P. Taylor’s A Century of Conflict (1998)

The Struggle for Mastery in Europe Vol.1
The Struggle for Mastery in Europe Vol.2
The First World War & Its Aftermath
The Origins of the Second World War
The Second World War & Its Aftermath

Josephine Tey

A Shilling for Candles
Brett Farrer
Daughter of Time
Franchise Affair
Miss Pym Disposes
Singing Sands
To Love and be Wise

J.R.R.Tolkien
(Incomplete sets 1976-79, 1990, complete set 1997 and Limited Edition 2002)

The Hobbit
The Lord of the Rings
- The Fellowship of the Ring
- The Two Towers
- The Return of the King
The Silmarillion

Anthony Trollope
(48 Volumes 1989-1999)

- The 6 Barsetshire Novels and Short Stories
The Warden, Barchester Towers, Doctor Thorne, Framley Parsonage, The Small House at Allington, The Last Chronicle of Barset
-The 6 Palliser Novels
Can You Forgive Her?, The Eustace Diamonds, Phineas Finn, The Duke’s Children,Phineas Redux, The Prime Minister
- The 4 Irish Novels
The Macdermots of Ballycloran, The Landleaguers, Castle Richmond, The Kellys and the O’Kellys
- The others
An Autobiography, An eye for an eye, An Old Man’s Love, Ayala’s Angel, Brown, Jones and Robinson, Cousin Henry, Doctor Wortle’s School, Harry Heathcote Of Gangoil: A Tale Of Australian Bush Life, He Knew He Was Right, Is He Popenjoy?, John Caldigate, Kept in the Dark, La Vendee: An Historical Romance, Lady Anna, Linda Tressel, Marion Fay, Miss Mackenzie, Mr Scarborough’s Family, Nina Balatka, Orley Farm, Rachel Ray, Ralph the Heir, Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite, The American senator, The Belton Estate, The Bertrams, The Claverings, The Fixed Period, The Golden Lion Of Granpere, The Three Clerks, The Vicar of Bullhampton, The Way We Live Now

Victorian Exploration and Travel

Captain Cook's Voyages by James Cook
History of the Conquest of Mexico by William H. Prescott
Into the Dark Continent by Henry Morton Stanley
London characters and crooks by Henry Mayhew
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to al-Madinah and Meccah by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph by T. E. Lawrence
The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin
The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin
The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia by Peter Hopkirk
The Journals of Lewis and Clark {abridged, Bergon-1989} by Meriwether Lewis
The Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman
The Quest for the Northwest Passage by Glyn Williams
The Raj: An Eye-Witness History of the British in India by Roger Hudson
The Rise and Fall of the British Empire by Lawrence James
The Source of the Nile by Richard Francis Burton
The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
William Russell Special Correspondent of the Times by Roger Hudson

Evelyn Waugh

- Comedies
Decline and Fall
Vile Bodies
Black Mischief
Scoop
A Handful of Dust
Put Out More Flags
- Sword of Honour
Unconditional Surrender
Officers and Gentlemen
Men at Arms

P.G. Wodehouse

- Jeeves Set (1996)
Ring For Jeeves; Joy in the Morning; The Mating Season; The Code of the Woosters; Right Ho, Jeeves; Thank You, Jeeves
- Jeeves Set (2000)
Aunts Aren't Gentlemen; Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit; Jeeves in the Offing, Much Obliged, Jeeves; Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves
- Jeeves Set (2010)
The Inimitable Jeeves; Carry On, Jeeves; Very Good, Jeeves!
-Best of The Blandings
Heavy Weather; Summer Lightning; Uncle Fred in the Springtime; Pigs Have Wings; Full Moon; Service With a Smile
- New set (2017-19)
Carry On Jeeves; Jeeves and Wooster Stories; Thank You, Jeeves; The Clicking of Cuthbert; The Inimitable Jeeves; Very Good, Jeeves

The information below has been mined for data to update the lists above. Thanks to all who have added information including akkle, SimB, skullduggery, gdsamphier, StevieBby, SF-72, joco30, Pellias, folio_books, ellandan0891, HermeticHermit, bookfair-e, Tabby Tom and Eastonorfolio.

Further discussion and additions to this list welcome in the following thread.

THIS LIST IS NOT DEFINITIVE AND THERE ARE OTHER SERIES THAT ARE NOT INCLUDED ABOVE.
PLEASE REFER TO THE MANY POSTS BELOW TO CHECK FOR DETAILS OF OTHER SERIES DISCOVERED BY FSD MEMBERS

2NLNils
Mar 5, 2018, 2:40 am

WOW! Very helpful and starred right away.

3groeng
Mar 5, 2018, 2:51 am

>1 wcarter:

Thanks for this great service! I see I will need to hunt down several books in the Ancient Civilisations series...

Should complete sets of authors' novels also be included in this, e.g. Austen, Dickens, Trollope, Shakespeare etc?

4affle
Mar 5, 2018, 2:54 am

>1 wcarter:

Rural Britain is short of the Natural History & Antiquities of Selborne.

5affle
Mar 5, 2018, 3:13 am

The Folio Poets (publication order)

Keats
Wordsworth
Coleridge
Kipling
Donne
Tennyson
Yeats
Shelley
Byron

There are two things to watch here. Someone has put together an LT Publishers Series called the Folio Poets, but has missed one or two of these, and included a rather random list of poetry books that are not in series; this is not a helpful list. There is also a group of much earlier poetry books, referred to by Nash as an informal series, and known at the time as the Folio poets: these are smaller format quarter-bound leather books, with plain cloth on the boards, dates of publication ranging from 1948 to 1980 or 1981, depending on whether Catullus is included.

6affle
Mar 5, 2018, 3:22 am

The Folio Press Fine Editions (twenty books) has a reliable LT Publishers Series here, and also on the wiki:

http://www.librarything.com/publisherseries/Folio+Press+Fine+Editions

7wcarter
Editado: Mar 5, 2018, 3:30 am

>4 affle:
Thanks. Added.

>3 groeng:
You may add any list that you consider relevant and useful.

8SimB
Mar 5, 2018, 4:08 am

A couple I can think of..

RS Surtees (the first ever FS series..of which your Jorrocks was the first)

Jorrocks Jaunts and Jollities
Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour
Handley Cross
Mr Facey Romford's Hounds
Plain or Ringlets
Ask Mamma
Hawbuck Grange
Hillingdon Hall

To add to Agatha Christie

A Pocket Full of Rye
Sleeping Murder

Elizabeth David Cook Books

Mediterranean Food
Italian Food
Summer Cooking
French Provincial Cooking
Christmas
An Omelette and a Glass Of Wine

Popular Humour Series

The Pick of Punch
The Best of Dorothy Parker
The Genius of James Thurber
The Best After Dinner Stories
The Best of the Marx Brothers
(maybe others)

Trollope, Hardy, Green, Tolkien all fit the mandate

9folio_books
Mar 5, 2018, 4:20 am

This is an excellent and very useful resource, Warwick. We now seem to be in the process of adding to and editing. When done with that the whole thing should be added to the Wiki. But of course you've already thought of that!

10wcarter
Mar 5, 2018, 4:36 am

>8 SimB:
Agatha Chritie titles added to original list. Thank you.

>9 folio_books:
You read my mind. Yes, in due course, this thread will be linked to as a wiki resource instead of the fragmented series links currently present on the wiki.

11drasvola
Mar 5, 2018, 5:20 am

Very useful. Thanks to all!

12affle
Mar 5, 2018, 5:25 am

Conrad:

Almayer’s folly
Arrow of gold
Chance
Duel
Heart of darkness
Lord Jim
Mirror of the sea
Nostromo
Outcast of the islands
The rescue
The rover
The secret agent
The secret sharer
The shadow line
Typhoon
Under western eyes
Victory

13affle
Mar 5, 2018, 5:32 am

Ancient philosophers:

Plato The republic
Aristotle Ethics
Cicero On the good life
Seneca Letters from a Stoic
Lucretius On the nature of things
Marcus Aurelius Meditations

14skullduggery
Editado: Mar 5, 2018, 6:25 am

Not sure how you want to handle the Agatha Christie “set”.

There are the recent ones illustrated by Andrew Davidson - Styles, ABC, Orient, Nile (which you have above) are part of the Poirot Novels set (released separately or in a boxed set); while Rye, Sleeping (in your list above) as well as Body In The Library and Murder at the Vicarage (these two need to be added) are part of the Marple Novels set.

Marple Short Stories was released twice - recently in series with the above with illustrations by Davidson, and previously in series with the three-volume Poirot Short Stories set where all four were illustrated by Christopher Brown.

There have also been a few one-offs, e.g. And Then There Were None was recently released with a different illustrator (David Lupton) so not in series binding (presumably because it’s not Poirot or Marple).

15skullduggery
Editado: Mar 5, 2018, 6:23 am

>8 SimB: To add to the popular humour set (which was called “Folio Society Great Humorists/Humourists” at some stage according to my notes)

The Cream of Noel Coward
A Treasury of Mark Twain*
The Plums of PG Wodehouse
The Wit of Oscar Wilde*
More Pick of Punch
The Best of the Raconteurs

*The originals were all bound in gold/silver/bronze material but some seem to have recently been re-released in more normal colored buckram (greens and blues)

16skullduggery
Mar 5, 2018, 6:22 am

The Dark Is Rising series by Susan Cooper
Over Sea Under Stone
The Dark Is Rising
Greenwich
The Grey King
Silver On The Tree

Is there a feeling either way on boxed sets where the books weren’t released separately?

E.g. 2x matching Sherlock sets (5 vols stories; 4 vols novels), Best of Ronald Dahl (7 vols), Narnia (7 vols), Katharine Briggs Folk & Fairy Tales (2x sets of 3 vols), Adventures of Richard Hannay, etc

17gdsamphier
Mar 5, 2018, 6:28 am

Do single slipcased sets of five count? If so, there's

Orwell:

Burmese Days
A Clergyman's Daughter
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Coming Up for Air
Nineteen Eighty-Four

and

Buchan

The Thirty-Nine Steps
Greenmantle
Mr Standfast
The Three Hostages
The Island of Sheep

18gdsamphier
Editado: Mar 5, 2018, 7:25 am

>16 skullduggery: Just beat me as I was typing.

edited to add a missing word.

19StevieBby
Mar 5, 2018, 6:39 am

Under popular humour:

More pick of Punch
The Wit of Oscar Wilde

I'm under the impression "The Trial of the Templars" and even "The Gunpowder Plot" belongs to the Medieval Disasters series (despite the latter being neither of those!)

Also:
Richard Hannay
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes
Hemmingway
H G Wells
Stevenson
Wodehouse
Waugh (?)
Elizabeth Gaskell
Orwell
Brontë
E F Benson (The Mapp and Lucia Novels)
Susan Cooper
George Eliot
Fitzgerald
Henry James
E. Nesbit (The Adventures of the Five Children & The Adventures of the Treasure Seekers = 6 volumes)
...

I do think you ought to include series with four, three and even two titles!

Hope you got your sledge!

20Levin40
Editado: Mar 5, 2018, 7:26 am

Don't forget Tolkien. Technically 5 books.

Then there is Graham Greene: two sets of six volumes each plus, in a similar style but individually sold, The Comedians, Travels with my Aunt and The Human Factor.

Folio have done Wodehouse many times, but the series that sticks out is the 20-volume set with the same overall design and wrap-around covers illustrations by Paul Cox. It comprises of the first Jeeves novels (6-volume set), the second Jeeves novels (5-volume set), the Jeeves short stories (3-volume set) and the Blandings novels (6 volume set).

Edited to add: also two sets of Arthur Ransome, 11 volumes in total.

21SF-72
Editado: Mar 5, 2018, 11:44 am

Rosemary Sutcliff:

The Eagle of the Ninth
The Silver Branch
The Lantern Bearers
same size and similar spine design, but different illustrator:
The Mark of the Horse Lord

Maybe also the set with the Complete Greek Tragedies?

edited to add: I overlooked the 5 book requirement, but agree that it would make sense to include smaller sets, too, which is why I'll leave the Sutcliffs up for the time being.

22Jayked
Mar 5, 2018, 9:04 am

"Victorian Storytellers" is a strange category. None of the Swift, Kipling or Grahame novels was published during her reign, and the original Rubaiyat (which is hardly a story) preceded it.

23Lady19thC
Mar 5, 2018, 9:11 am

Austen, Bronte, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy, Gaskell, Trollope, Collins, Forster, DuMaurier.

24joco30
Editado: Mar 5, 2018, 9:54 am

>19 StevieBby: I do think you ought to include series with four, three and even two titles!

I also think you shouldn't limit it to "at least 5".
"Multiple books or sets that are sold separately but clearly belong together" would be better I think.

For example:

The Dam Busters + The Great Escape + Reach for the Sky
God's Englishman + The World Turned Upside Down
Folk tales of Britain Legends + Narratives
...
I can't imagine that one would buy only one of these books or sets without also wanting the other ones.

Didn't see anyone mention the Folio Collectibles yet:

Huckleberry Finn
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Diary of a Nobody
Black Mischief
Cider with Rosie
Down and Out in Paris and London
Frankenstein
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
The Hound of the Baskervilles
A Christmas Carol

25Pellias
Editado: Mar 5, 2018, 10:36 am

Thomas Hodgkin `The Barbarian invasion of the roman empire`: set of eight single slipcased https://www.librarything.com/pic/4674812

The Visigothic invasion
The huns and the vandals
The Ostrogoths
The Imperial restoration
The Lombard invasion
The Lombard kingdom
The Frankish invasion
The Frankish empire

https://www.librarything.com/pic/4720969 (unsure what name this set goes by, if any)

The limited "cheap" editions (at one point) - (some now very expensive)

Moby Dick
Ulysses
Aeneid
Les Miserables
War & Peace
Don Quixote

Edited: To add picture to the Thomas Hodgkin set

26garyjbp
Mar 5, 2018, 11:45 am

How about perhaps the first series of all?

the complete set of Shakespeare's plays, published in individual volumes between 1950 and 1975

27kdweber
Mar 5, 2018, 11:48 am

>1 wcarter: I've always considered The Princes in the Tower to be part of the Medieval Disasters series.

28folio_books
Mar 5, 2018, 12:05 pm

>27 kdweber:

Yes, most certainly. But not The Trial of the Templars or The Gunpowder Plot, neither of which were clothed in the series binding.

>19 StevieBby: I do think you ought to include series with four, three and even two titles!

Well, no. I think five is a sensible compromise and I'm happy to work with that. I've limited my own thinking to a minimum of five.

>24 joco30: Didn't see anyone mention the Folio Collectibles yet

Quite.

29Andreas12
Editado: Mar 5, 2018, 12:18 pm

OT: Quick question; is there a thread here on LT where one could discuss selling LEs? I may have a number of them to sell. Or would the best thing be to create a new thread, or perhaps that would go against the site rules.

30folio_books
Mar 5, 2018, 12:37 pm

>29 Andreas12:

You can discuss the idea by all means but you can't use FSD as a forum to sell your books. It has never been well received in the past.

31Andreas12
Mar 5, 2018, 1:10 pm

Very well. Thank you.

32Sorion
Editado: Mar 5, 2018, 2:17 pm

An excellent and very helpful idea!

33elladan0891
Mar 5, 2018, 2:42 pm

Hemingway: a set comprising of The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell To Arms, To Have And Have Not, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Old Man And the Sea, plus matching volume of short stories. There were 2 if not 3 versions of bindings of the novels set/short stories, all with the same internals.

5 volumes of Stevenson:
Kidnapped, Catriona, The Master of Ballantrae, Treasure Island, Jekyll & Hyde/Weir of Hermiston

34bookfair_e
Mar 5, 2018, 2:46 pm

A.J.P. Taylor’s A Century of Conflict was a five volume boxed set. At least two of the titles from this set: The Origins of the Second World War and The Second World War and its Aftermath, (volumes IV and V respectively from the boxed set) were both published separately in individual slipcases. Were all five titles published individually?

35podaniel
Mar 5, 2018, 3:13 pm

I have five copies of YRTTD--does that count as a series?

36Eastonorfolio
Mar 5, 2018, 3:56 pm

Would anyone consider the FS 'Classic' Fairy Tales a series?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFHBmjfgM3A

37HermeticHermit
Mar 5, 2018, 4:24 pm

Graham Greene -

The Complete Entertainments:
Stamboul Train
A Gun for Sale
The Confidential Agent
The Ministry of Fear
The Third Man
Our Man in Havana

The Great Novels:
Brighton Rock
The Power and the Glory
The Heart of the Matter
The End of the Affair
The Quiet American
A Burnt Out Case

Raymond Chandler 7 Volume Set

38wcarter
Mar 5, 2018, 4:32 pm

I have woken up to a great deal of information, thank you all.
I limited it to a five volume minimum because including smaller series would make the database huge and unmanageable.
I will collate the information suppied above.

39wdripp
Mar 5, 2018, 4:39 pm

>38 wcarter: Another great resource for the Wiki. I was using the complete titles list this weekend, and it was wonderful to have. Thank you for the time and effort you've put into to building the Wiki.

40wcarter
Editado: Mar 5, 2018, 6:06 pm

The above information has now been mined for data, and the list at the start of this thread has been updated so that all the information is easily accessible.
Link added to FSD wiki here.

>6 affle:
As the Fine Press editions are already on the wiki, I will omit them here.
>14 skullduggery:
I have included all Agatha Christie in one list as both Marple and Porot books are bound in a similar way.
>22 Jayked:
If you have a better title for "Victorian Storytellers" please suggest it.

Thank you all for your research.

41elladan0891
Mar 5, 2018, 6:10 pm

Also the series on wars:

The Defeat of the Spanish Armada
The Thirty Years War
The English Civil War, set of 3: The King's Peace, The King's War, The Trial of Charles I
The Seven Years War
The Campaigns of Napoleon, set of 3: The Rise, February 1793-September 1805; The Zenith, September 1805-September 1812; The Decline, September 1812-June 1815
The Boer War

Folio 60 calls it the "bellicose series"; incidentally, it mistakenly lists The Hundred Years War from 2005 as part of the series, but it doesn't have any of the common elements of the series.

On the other hand, The Mutiny of HMS Bounty, at least its later bindings, looks like it could almost match the series, although it's of different size and the font of the spine's golden title over the black label is different.

42elladan0891
Editado: Mar 5, 2018, 6:55 pm

As >20 Levin40: pointed out correctly, Graham Greene also has 3 individual volumes that match the sets:
The Comedians, Travels with my Aunt, and The Human Factor.

George Orwell: there is also the Reportage set (not in series with the novels set):
Down And Out In Paris And London
Homage To Catalonia
Funny, But Not Vulgar
The Road To Wigan Pier
My Country Right Or Left

43elladan0891
Mar 5, 2018, 6:41 pm

A History of England series:
- Britannia: A History of Roman Britain
- Anglo-Saxon England
- Early Medieval England
- England in the Latter Middle Ages
- England under the Tudors
- England under the Stuarts
- England in the Eighteenth Century
- England in the Age of Improvement 1783-1867
- Victorian England
- Edwardian England
- England 1914-1945
- England 1945-2000

Tolkien:
The Silmarillion
The Hobbit
The Lord of the Rings, set of 3: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King

National short stories:
American Short Stories
English Short Stories
French Short Stories
Irish Short Stories
Japanese Short Stories
Russian Short Stories

Medieval Life:
Medieval People by Eileen Powers
Medieval Women by Eileen Powers
Scenes of Medieval Life, set of 3:
Life In a Medieval Castle by Joseph and Frances Gies
Life In a Medieval City by J & F Gies
Life In a Medieval Village by J & F Gies

Series of large leather spine/silk boards Fine Editions:
Inferno
Purgatorio
Paradiso
Faust
Jerusalem
Paradise Lost
Walden

44affle
Mar 5, 2018, 6:43 pm

Classical histories:

Thucydides The Peloponnesian War
Herodotus Histories
Livy The early history of Rome
Livy The war with Hannibal
Caesar The Gallic wars
Tacitus The annals of imperial Rome

Note that these are big brown jobs - the first two are different translations and bindings from those correctly, if inappropriately, included in the Myths and Legends list.

45bookfair_e
Mar 5, 2018, 6:53 pm

KINGS AND QUEENS OF BRITAIN:

William the Conqueror (2004)
Henry VIII (2004)
Mary Queen of Scots (2004)
Richard III (2005)
Elizabeth I (2005)
Queen Victoria (2007)

46wcarter
Mar 5, 2018, 7:36 pm

Good Grief!
I have opened Pandora's box - these lists are never going to end - but please keep sending them.
List at beginning of post is being progressively updated.

47Jayked
Mar 5, 2018, 7:56 pm

>40 wcarter:
What all 6 have in common is a quarter-vellum binding and a similar presentation. 3 are children's fantasy, and some might class Gulliver thus, though I wouldn't. I wouldn't say that the content of Coleridge and particularly Fitzgerald belongs in the same group.

48elladan0891
Mar 5, 2018, 8:16 pm

Sorry, one more 3-volume set for the Bellicose series:
The Campaigns of Wellington: The Peninsular War 1808-1811, The Peninsular War 1812-1814, The Waterloo Campaign

Ok, I'm done for the day )

49HermeticHermit
Editado: Mar 5, 2018, 10:04 pm

Anthony Trollope (48 Volumes) 1981-1999

-The 6 Barsetshire Novels and Short Stories
The Warden
Barchester Towers
Doctor Thorne
Framley Parsonage
The Small House at Allington
The Last Chronicle of Barset

-The 6 Palliser Novels
Can You Forgive Her?
The Eustace Diamonds
Phineas Finn
The Duke’s Children
Phineas Redux
The Prime Minister

-The 4 Irish Novels
The Macdermots of Ballycloran
The Landleaguers
Castle Richmond
The Kellys and the O’Kellys

-The others
An Autobiography
An eye for an eye
An Old Man’s Love
Ayala’s Angel
Brown, Jones and Robinson
Cousin Henry
Doctor Wortle’s School
Harry Heathcote Of Gangoil: A Tale Of Australian Bush Life
He Knew He Was Right
Is He Popenjoy?
John Caldigate
Kept in the Dark
La Vendee: An Historical Romance
Lady Anna
Linda Tressel
Marion Fay
Miss Mackenzie
Mr Scarborough’s Family
Nina Balatka
Orley Farm
Rachel Ray
Ralph the Heir
Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite
The American senator
The Belton Estate
The Bertrams
The Claverings
The Fixed Period
The Golden Lion Of Granpere
The Three Clerks
The Vicar of Bullhampton
The Way We Live Now

50HermeticHermit
Mar 5, 2018, 9:22 pm

Thomas Hardy

Far From The Madding Crowd
Selected Poems
Tess Of The d’Urbervilles
Under The Greenwood Tree/The Well Beloved
A Pair Of Blue Eyes
The Hand Of Ethelberta
The Return Of The Native
The Trumpet–Major
The Mayor Of Casterbridge
The Woodlanders
Wessex Tales
A Group Of Noble Dames
Jude The Obscure
A Laodicean
A Changed Man
Two On A Tower
Desperate Remedies
Life’s Little Ironies

51HermeticHermit
Mar 5, 2018, 10:03 pm

P.G. Wodehouse

-Jeeves Set (1996)
Ring For Jeeves
Joy in the Morning
The Mating Season
The Code of the Woosters
Right Ho, Jeeves
Thank You, Jeeves

-Jeeves Set (2000)
Aunts aren't Gentlemen
Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit
Jeeves in the offing
Much obliged, Jeeves
Stiff upper lip, Jeeves

-Jeeves Set (2010)
The Inimitable Jeeves
Carry On, Jeeves
Very Good, Jeeves!

-Best of The Blandings
Heavy Weather
Summer Lightning
Uncle Fred in the Springtime
Pigs Have Wings
Full Moon
Service With a Smile

52bookfair_e
Mar 5, 2018, 11:46 pm

Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire – eight volumes plus memoirs:

The History of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire
by Edward Gibbon.

Vol I - The Turn of the Tide (1983)
Vol II - Constantine and the Christian Empire (1984)
Vol III - The revival and collapse of Paganism (1985)
Vol IV - The end of the Western Empire (1986)
Vol V - Justinian and the Roman law (1987)
Vol VI - Mohammed and the rise of the Arabs (1988)
Vol VII - The Normans in Italy and the crusades (1989)
Vol VIII - The fall of Constantinople and the Papacy in Rome (1990)

And the companion volume in series binding design:

Memoirs of My Life by Edward Gibbon (1991)

********

Macaulay’s History of England – seven volumes:

The History of England in the Eighteenth Century (1980)

The History of England from 1485 to 1685 (1985)

The History of England from the accession of James II

Volumes I and II in one slipcase. Folio Press 1985.

Volumes III, IV and V in one slipcase. Folio Press 1986.

53NLNils
Mar 6, 2018, 1:40 am

The Russian Novels

Brothers Karamazov, The (in series binding: 2008)
Crime and Punishment (1997)
Doctor Zhivago (1997)
War and Peace (1997)

Not a five book series -although overall consisting of five volumes- but worth a mention here in the thread for future reference.

54Shaliza
Editado: Mar 6, 2018, 6:12 am

>1 wcarter: What about adding African Folk Tales to Mythology?

55wcarter
Mar 6, 2018, 6:26 am

>54 Shaliza:
African Folk Tales is a very nice book and the topic fits in with Myths and Legends, but it is a totally different binding and presentation to the other books in this series.
A series must be consistent in binding and presentation as well as topic or author.
Sorry.

56StevieBby
Mar 6, 2018, 6:29 am

Don't think anyone has mentioned Proust:

In Search Of Lost Time

1 Swann's Way
2 Within a Budding Grove
3 The Guermantes Way
4 Sodom and Gomorrah
5 The Captive
6 The Fugitive Time Regained

57Matthew1956
Editado: Mar 6, 2018, 9:13 am

This is one of the best threads on here! Can someone PLEASE help put together a Gothic collections list?????

58folio_books
Mar 6, 2018, 9:39 am

>57 Matthew1956:

There's no such thing, sadly - not in the sense of a distinct collection of Gothic tiles published by Folio. Nearest would be the NorthangerSet of Horrid Novels.

59bookfair_e
Mar 6, 2018, 10:30 am

THE FOLIO HISTORY OF ANCIENT GREECE:

Four volume boxed set: plus The World of Odysseus

The Lyric Age
The Persian Wars
The Classical Age
The Hellenistic Age

Series binding with the above and issued separately as a single volume:

The World of Odysseus

********

LOST CITIES OF THE ANCIENT WORLD:

Five-volume boxed set. Two of these titles, Pompeii and Herculaneum, and Troy, were also published as single volumes.

Petra
Pompeii
Knossos
Troy
Babylon

********

A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES
Winston S. Churchill
Four-volume boxed set. 2003.

Vol I The Birth of Britain
Vol II The New World
Vol III The Age of Revolution
Vol IV The Great Democracies

A fifth volume (but not volume V) was produced by the Folio Society in 2006 bound in series with the above and issued in a single slipcase.

A History of the English-Speaking Peoples since 1900
By Andrew Roberts.

Published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson (2006) and not a Folio Society publication but has the Folio colophon on the spine.

60Pellias
Editado: Mar 6, 2018, 10:59 am

>1 wcarter: If you feel like it - then you are most welcome to use the two links provided in >25 Pellias: , cut it out from the original picture or work whattever magic you want - to add some visibilities to the `Classical Histories` and the `Hodgkins` set

..`the Apocrypha` also belong under the `Classic fine editions` label does it not?

- and the Tolkien LE`s and the Vellum LE`s Alice in Wonderland, Wind in the Willows, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Just so Stories, Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Gulliver`s Travels

- - -

Robin Hood as part of a set - the classic fairy tales, if that is so (and so it is), then i have some work to be done .. someday

Edited for: To change recipient for the links

61Matthew1956
Mar 6, 2018, 11:42 am

folio_books Thanks for this. However, that set alone is so expensive and it's almost impossible to find a set that's in good condition in terms of slipcase, books, and glassine slipcases. It's so weird why the FS haven't released another version of it, or most of its other Gothic titles it published in the 1960s-80s

62StevieBby
Mar 6, 2018, 11:54 am

Another haunch: "The Folio Book of Humorous Anecdotes" belongs to Great Humourists?

63bookfair_e
Mar 6, 2018, 2:21 pm

>1 wcarter:

The twelve history of England titles listed above as:

History of England series by Macaulay

- are not Macaulay’s. This is Folio’s own compilation under the general editorship of Felipe Fernandez-Armesto. The twelve volumes are bound in series; eleven volumes are numbered. Britannia is the un-numbered volume.

Macaulay’s seven-volume set is detailed above in post >52 bookfair_e:

64wcarter
Mar 6, 2018, 10:30 pm

Edited and added to again with the assistance of >56 StevieBby:, >63 bookfair_e: and >60 Pellias:.
More pictures will be added in due course, but I do need to take time off for work occasionally ;-)

65bookfair_e
Mar 7, 2018, 1:28 am

Folio began a series of slim, large-format books in 1959 of various artists/painters with reproductions of some of their work.

As the annual presentation volume for members they were issued in a glassine wrapper, without a slipcase, as was then the practice.

Portrait of Provence: Vincent van Gogh. (1959)
Ballet Dancers: Edgar Degas. (1960)
Four Themes: Pablo Picasso. (1961)
Rembrandt: Paintings, Drawings and Etchings. (1963)
Renoir: Paintings, Drawings, Lithographs and Etchings. (1965)
Paintings, Drawings and Prints: Albrecht Durer. (1969)

Canaletto: Paintings, Drawings and Etchings. (1967) landscape format rules it out.

66TabbyTom
Mar 7, 2018, 2:45 am

>65 bookfair_e:

A later volume in the same format was:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints: Francisco Goya (1971)

67bookfair_e
Mar 7, 2018, 5:35 am

>66 TabbyTom: Thank you.

68cronshaw
Mar 7, 2018, 7:01 am

>1 wcarter: Sterling work, Warwick! Allow me to point out the missing French Country Cooking from your list of titles in the mouth-moistening Elizabeth David series.

69SimB
Mar 7, 2018, 7:04 am

With Goldfinger, the Bond books now meet the criteria!

70StevieBby
Mar 7, 2018, 7:30 am

Andrew Lang's The Nursery Rhyme Book is "published in series with" the Fairy Books - same design and binding (I'll let you decide if it counts or not.)

http://www.foliosociety.com/book/NRB/the-nursery-rhyme-book

71Pellias
Mar 7, 2018, 11:33 am

Question: - (about) The Folio History of Ancient Greece, were the first four volumes also available separate, as in single volume releases like the World of Odysseus?

Ø,-

72elladan0891
Mar 7, 2018, 1:15 pm

>71 Pellias:
Persian Wars was definitely available as a separate volume, not sure about the others. Will check Folio 60 later today.

73Pellias
Mar 7, 2018, 1:23 pm

>72 elladan0891: Thanks. You nailed my question, `cause i have seen Persian Wars before on the secondhand market, but unsure of the others. Would be okay to have that clarified once and for all :)

74bookfair_e
Mar 7, 2018, 1:41 pm

>71 Pellias:
>72 elladan0891:

I’ve been unable to find any reference to any of the four titles in this set published as a single volume. I too was sure that I had seen The Persian Wars as an individual book but after lots of searches could not find any reference to it; I concluded that I had confused it with The Persian Expedition as there are some similarities in the binding, mainly the colour. But still not sure!

75AnnieMod
Mar 7, 2018, 2:02 pm

>1 wcarter:

There is also a short story collection to go with John Buchan's novels set (same size and look).

76StevieBby
Mar 7, 2018, 2:03 pm

C. S. Lewis: Narnia (FS 1996)

1 The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
2 The Magician's Nephew
3 The Horse and His Boy
4 Prince Caspian
5 The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
6 The Silver Chair
7 The Last Battle

77StevieBby
Mar 7, 2018, 2:04 pm

Evelyn Waugh: Comedies (FS: 1999)

1 Decline and Fall
2 Vile Bodies
3 Black Mischief
4 Scoop
5 A Handful of Dust
6 Put Out More Flags

https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=22467511973&searchurl=pn...

78StevieBby
Mar 7, 2018, 2:13 pm

Elizabeth Gaskell

1 Wives and Daughters (FS 2002)
2 North and South (FS 2003)
3 Mary Barton (FS 2004)
4 Sylvia’s lovers (FS 2005)
5 Ruth (FS 2006)

79StevieBby
Mar 7, 2018, 2:28 pm

George Eliot: The Complete Novels (FS 1999)

1 Adam Bede
2 The Mill on the Floss
3 Silas Marner
4 Romola
5 Felix Holt: The Radical
6 Middlemarch
7 Daniel Deronda

80StevieBby
Mar 7, 2018, 2:31 pm

Sherlock Holmes: Complete Stories (FS 1993)

1 The Adventures
2 The Return
3 His Last Bow
4 The Case-Book
5 The Memoirs

https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=22103716682&searchurl=tn...

81kcshankd
Mar 7, 2018, 2:34 pm

Churchill's Second World War

82bookfair_e
Editado: Mar 7, 2018, 2:39 pm

>71 Pellias:
>72 elladan0891:
>74 bookfair_e:

There are copies of The Persian Wars as a single volume in slipcase, available on Abe.

edited for typo

83kcshankd
Mar 7, 2018, 2:40 pm

Also, not sure what you would call it, but looking at my shelf 'dreary grey/black/tan Great War' could be a series.

I have:

Storm of Steel
Ordeal by Fire
The Middle Parts of Fortune
All Quiet on the Western Front
In Flanders Field
Goodbye to All That

84StevieBby
Mar 7, 2018, 2:52 pm

The Complete Novels of the Brontë Sisters (FS 1970)

Anne Brontë: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall & Agnes Grey
Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette & The Professor
Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights.

https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=22755507017&searchurl=pn...

85StevieBby
Mar 7, 2018, 3:06 pm

E. F. Benson: The Mapp and Lucia Novels (FS 1994)

1 Queen Lucia
2 Miss Mapp
3 Lucia in London
4 Mapp and Lucia
5 Lucia's Progress
6 Trouble for Lucia

https://www.amazon.co.uk/MAPP-LUCIA-NOVELS-COMPLETE-SOCIETY/dp/B001I3KZ5I

86Pellias
Editado: Mar 7, 2018, 3:28 pm

>82 bookfair_e: Thanks. I`ll wait and see if the rest of them have been printed as separate volumes before i climb down that hole :)

>1 wcarter: Oh, the Dickens, the Dickens .. what the Dickens .. Yes, all them Dickens volumes too .. all four of them sets :=)

At first i thought the books of five should be separate volumes, if not, there is:

* Pliny
I/II/III/IV/V

** The complete Greek tragedies (someone mentioned it somewhere)
I Aeschylus
II Sophocles
III Euripedes
IV Euripedes
V Euripedes

Also to mention probably that Black Death can also be found with another spine edition matching the others? (Then again, it`s probably not relevant in this thread with "minor" details) ..

Amazing job Warwick, keep it up! You gave yourself a lot of work this time

Cough` - The letterpress Shakespeare .. Cough`

:I can see you are on fire StevieBby ;)

Edited to add: Sherlock Holmes set & Raymond Chandler / Dorothy Sayers if not mentioned

87StevieBby
Mar 7, 2018, 3:34 pm

E. M. Forster: The Novels (FS 1996)

1 Where Angels Fear to Tread
2 Maurice
3 A Room with a View
4 The Longest Journey
5 A Passage to India
6 Howards End

https://www.amazon.co.uk/COLLECTED-NOVELS-box-set/dp/B008TN7VQ6

88wcarter
Mar 7, 2018, 4:07 pm

Thank you all (I think).
This list is going on forever!

89elladan0891
Mar 7, 2018, 4:08 pm

>73 Pellias: >74 bookfair_e:
So, Folio 60 is no help. It lists the set only, no references to individual volumes - even The Persian Wars. However, The Persian Wars was most definitely issued separately because, well, I own it.

I've never seen other volumes available individually, so my current assumption is that The Persian Wars was the only volume of the set issued separately.

90StevieBby
Mar 7, 2018, 4:09 pm

>83 kcshankd: I thought so - if they look the same... but hard to be definite as they were not sold together.

How about:
The Somme - An Eyewitness History,
Robert T. Foley & Helen McCartney (Eds.) (FS 2006)

And possibly (?):
The Face of Battle
John Keegan (FS 2008)

http://www.foliosociety.com/pages/somme

91elladan0891
Mar 7, 2018, 4:31 pm

>83 kcshankd: >90 StevieBby:
I would most definitely not bunch them all into a single series - different designs, different styles, different binding materials ranging from paper to cloth to buckram - completely different beasts. Only Anthem For The Doomed Youth and Ordeal By Fire are in series with each other, despite differing FS logos on the spines; their boards do match, as well as some of the internals, like fonts used for titles/chapter headings, endpapers, etc.

92StevieBby
Mar 7, 2018, 4:51 pm

>91 elladan0891: fair enough - thanks for the photo - it helps clarify the differences.

93StevieBby
Mar 7, 2018, 5:03 pm

E. Nesbit:

The Adventures of the Treasure Seekers (FS 1993)
1 The Story of the Treasure Seekers
2 The Wouldbegoods
3 New Treasure Seekers

The Adventures of the Five Children (FS 1994)
1 The Phoenix and the Carpet
2 The Story of the Amulet
3 Five Children and It

94olepuppy
Mar 7, 2018, 5:41 pm

The Kipling Short Stories 5-set

>91 elladan0891: My Ordeal By Fire has the same scrolled FS as Anthem For Doomed Youth. It's a first printing. Those two plus The Somme-scrolled- and In Flanders Field, which strangely does not have any Folio spine marker, used to be grouped together in the prospectus.

95lgrazian
Mar 7, 2018, 7:06 pm

The Persian Wars was available as a single volume (2009 Prospectus p.44).

96wcarter
Mar 7, 2018, 7:16 pm

Completely up to date to >94 olepuppy: with pictures for every entry.
Phew!!

97bookfair_e
Mar 7, 2018, 7:52 pm

>95 lgrazian: Thank you for confirmation.

and

>96 wcarter: Thank you.

98kronnevik
Mar 7, 2018, 8:27 pm

Roald Dahl set:

James and the Giant Peach
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
The BFG
The Witches
Matilda

99kronnevik
Mar 7, 2018, 8:42 pm

To add to Classic Fairy Tales:

The Fables of Aesop

100kronnevik
Mar 7, 2018, 8:43 pm

>70 StevieBby:
I agree that Nursery Rhymes should be added.

101kronnevik
Mar 7, 2018, 8:47 pm

One might argue that Travels with Robert Louis Stevenson (3 books) is in series with the 6 books of fellow Scottish writer Buchan. Same size, styling, illustrator...

102wcarter
Mar 7, 2018, 9:10 pm

>100 kronnevik:
But it is not one of Lang's books. All the others are a tighter series, Nursery Rhymes strikes me as being an outsider hanging on.

103kronnevik
Mar 7, 2018, 9:11 pm

Many of the Roman Pisarev illustrated titles are remarkably similar in styling. I'm thinking of the Dumas titles (especially the set of 3) along with the 3-volume set of Tolstoy Collected Stories. You could probably group in the Sutcliffs too...

I guess it depends on how we define "series."

104kronnevik
Mar 7, 2018, 9:16 pm

>102 wcarter:
I'm curious what you mean by it not being one of Lang's books. It's not one of the Rainbow books, but isn't it another Lang collection? FS states it's "produced in series with the enormously popular Folio editions of Andrew Lang’s Rainbow Fairy Books."

105wcarter
Mar 7, 2018, 9:22 pm

>100 kronnevik: >104 kronnevik:
OK, I give in - added.

106wdripp
Mar 7, 2018, 11:02 pm

Novels of Raymond Chandler boxed set:

The Big Sleep
Farewell My Lovely
The High Window
The Lady in the Lake
The Little Sister
The Long Goodbye
Playback

107wdripp
Mar 7, 2018, 11:06 pm

The Tales of Beatrix Potter:

Set 1:
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin
The Tailor of Gloucester
The tale of Benjamin Bunny
The Tale of Two Bad Mice
The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy Winkle
The Tale of the Pie and the Patty Pan
The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher
The Story of Miss Moppet
The Tale of Jemina Puddle-duck
The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies
The Tale of Pigling Bland

Set 2:
The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit
The tale of Tom Kitten
The Tale of Samuel Whiskers
The Tale of Ginger and Pickles
The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse
The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes
The Tale of Mr. Tod
Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes
The Tale of Jonny Town-Mouse
Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson

108wcarter
Mar 8, 2018, 4:59 am

>107 wdripp:
Of course! How could I have forgotten Beatrix.
Will be added.
Thanks

109StevieBby
Mar 8, 2018, 9:33 am

>1 wcarter: Thanks for all your work (including the necessary step of putting the sets in order) - I think the page looks impressive, especially with the addition of pictures.

It is a great reminder of the excellent things FS has done, and a sad reminder that the golden age is over (despite the increase in titles).

110kronnevik
Mar 8, 2018, 9:43 am

I think the Hemingways have a 2nd, newer binding style as well.

111wdripp
Editado: Mar 8, 2018, 10:29 am

The Complete Paddington:

A Bear Called Paddington
More About Paddington
Paddington Helps Out
Paddington Abroad
Paddington at Large
Paddington Marches On
Paddington at Work
Paddington Goes to Town
Paddington Takes the Air
Paddington On Top
Paddington Takes the Test
Paddington Here and Now

I don't know if you want to include this set, as it has the Harper Collins logo on it rather that Folio's, but it looks and feels like a Folio set, and is on the list of Folio titles in the wiki.

112Pellias
Mar 8, 2018, 10:51 am

>1 wcarter:

The Complete Sherlock Holmes - short stories (Red volume):

The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
His Last Bow
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

- -

The Story of the Renaissance

The Florentine Renaissance
The Flowering of Renaissance
The Renaissance in Europe
Europe from Renaissance to Reformation
Travel and Discovery in the Renaissance

113folio_books
Mar 8, 2018, 11:19 am

>111 wdripp: don't know if you want to include this set, as it has the Harper Collins logo on it rather that Folio's

A personal view - I didn't buy it because of the non-Folio logo. It wouldn't seem to sit right in a collection of Folio Society books.

114wdripp
Mar 8, 2018, 11:32 am

>113 folio_books: It is a little odd because it is Folio-like in every other way, but it is a wonderful set, and I am happy to buy any nice, sturdy editions of children's books.

I have a bookcase that houses only children's books (mostly chapter books), with lots of Folios but plenty of other publishers too (including the Oz set from Books of Wonder) so they don't look out of place. I can see how they would if the collection was exclusively Folio books.

115folio_books
Mar 8, 2018, 12:12 pm

>114 wdripp: I can see how they would if the collection was exclusively Folio books.

That's my problem, they're all Folios. As a set per se, this Paddington collection would grace any library of children's books.

116wcarter
Mar 8, 2018, 10:16 pm

>111 wdripp: >112 Pellias:
Thank you.
Expanded and updated yet again.

117c_schelle
Mar 9, 2018, 3:34 am

There are also the first and second world war sets by Martin Gilbert.

118wcarter
Mar 9, 2018, 4:09 am

>117 c_schelle:
Thanks for the suufestion but I don’t think they are five volumes, so don’t qualify for this list. If smaller sets were included this list would be several times longer and unmanageable.

119c_schelle
Mar 9, 2018, 4:12 am

>118 wcarter: Sorry, I must have missed the minimum number of required books (which I see now in the second line of your first entry). There are indeed only four volumes.

Thanks for the effort of compiling this list.

120kdweber
Mar 9, 2018, 5:10 pm

I don't see "The Story of the Middle ages" (1998):

The Birth of the Middle Ages
The Crucible of the Middle Ages
The Making of the Middle Ages
The High Middle Ages
The Waning of the Middle Ages

121wcarter
Mar 9, 2018, 9:19 pm

>120 kdweber:
Thanks. Added.

122skullduggery
Mar 9, 2018, 10:23 pm

Thanks again Warwick - this is a fabulous resource.

Folktales of Great Britain (Legends & Narratives) 2 boxed sets by Katharine Briggs, 2011

Legends
Legends I
Legends II
Legends III

Narratives
Narratives I
Narratives II
Narratives III

Illustration links:
- https://pics.cdn.librarything.com/picsizes/28/bc/28bc085eaad94725937333159514443...
- https://pics.cdn.librarything.com/picsizes/d1/bc/d1bc3d9bfcd778c5977326761414443...

The Arabian Nights: The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night translated by Powys Mathers & JC Mardrus, 2003

The Arabian Nights 1
The Arabian Nights 2
The Arabian Nights 3
The Arabian Nights 4
The Arabian Nights 5
The Arabian Nights 6

Illustration link: https://pics.cdn.librarything.com/picsizes/8a/ea/8aea61e97b55a695930324656774443...

Swallows and Amazons Adventures 2 boxed sets by Arthur Ransome (note: these were Jonathan Cape facsimiles released in a Folio slipcase rather than typical Folio-standard publications, so buyer beware)

Adventures 1 (6 vols, released 2004)
Swallows and Amazons
Swallowdale
Peter Duck
Pigeon Post
We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea
The Picts and the Martyrs

Adventures 2 (5 vols released 2005)
Missee Lee
Great Northern?
The Big Six
Winter Holiday
Coot Club
Secret War

Illustration links:
- https://pictures.abebooks.com/BRISTOWANDGARLAND/22655798402.jpg
- https://pictures.abebooks.com/BOOKMABILL58/22670945228.jpg

Northanger Set of Horrid Novels, 1968 (note: the title is taken from Northanger Abbey in which Miss Thorpe recommends a collection of 'horrid' novels to Catherine Morland)
Castle of Wolfenbach - Eliza Parsons
Clermont - Regina Maria Roche
The Mysterious Warning - Eliza Parsons
The Necromancer - Karl Friedrich Kahler
The Midnight Bell - Francis Lathom
The Orphan of the Rhine - Eleanor Sleath
Horrid Mysteries - Carl Grosse

Illustration link: https://pictures.abebooks.com/WAFER/22639798411.jpg

---
Another question - would you like us to identify pictures of the different editions, where they've been released multiple times - e.g. the photo for the blue Narnia Chronicles is the later release - I think early 2000s, not the 1996 set which was green; while the second (red) Sherlock set listed above is a re-release of the first half of the double (brown) set. I think it would be useful, since it might impact which set people start collecting, but thought I should check before I start spamming the thread with image links ;)

123olepuppy
Mar 9, 2018, 10:48 pm

>1 wcarter: Does the recent Count of Monte Cristo belong with the World Classics LEs?

Thanks for the great work here, Doctor C.

124wcarter
Editado: Mar 9, 2018, 11:37 pm

>123 olepuppy:
No, the Monte Cristo is slipcased, and in quite a differents tyle, to the Solander boxed others in this series.
>122 skullduggery:
All information and links about any FS sets and series, i am sure, would be appreciated by not only myself, but all FSD members.
Corrections and additions will be undertaken to the initial entry as necessary.
Swallows and Amazons Adventures does not appear in FS anthologies, so I am wary that this is just a marketing exercise and not at true FS book. Not listed in the FSD Folio Book List wiki. What do others think.

125wdripp
Mar 10, 2018, 12:44 am

>124 wcarter: I don't consider the Swallows & Amazons series to be a Folio release.

126EclecticIndulgence
Mar 10, 2018, 1:06 am

Este mensaje fue borrado por su autor.

127kronnevik
Editado: Mar 10, 2018, 7:47 pm

>1 wcarter: Thanks for all your work on this! It's becoming a great resource!

A few series have been mentioned previously, but are not yet added:

1. E. Nesbit 2 children's trilogies (2 binding variations)
2. Folio Press Fine Editions (20 books)

Also to add:

The Diary of Samuel Pepys LE

Some additions and corrections:

1. Acknowledge binding variants for Narnia and Hemingway (there may be others).
2. Only the newest Tolkien set and the LE meet the 5-book minimum - the older ones didn't include The Silmarillion
3. Paddington shouldn't be included for the same reason Swallows & Amazons shouldn't: they're not FS books (though the slipcase is FS at least for S&A).
4. Delete Sutcliff as it doesn't meet 5-book minimum.
5. I would argue that the Josephine Teys are not a series - only two match (see below).
6. I would argue that Irish Myths and Legends does not belong to Myths and Legends (see below).
7. Orwell should be listed as two separate series (see below).

So what makes a series? Here's my opinion based on the series already listed:

There seem to be two essentials for a series: similar size and similar binding design. Series books should match height on the bookshelf and have unifying binding characteristics. Sometimes these characteristics equate to near identical design and sometimes the similarities are less obvious (i.e. Fairy Tale Classics). Sometimes there are subsets within a series, but all books in the series should be variations on a recognizable theme (thus 5-7 above and other tweaks I'm sure).

Beyond size and binding, there are typically further unifying factors. These vary widely and include:

books written as a series
common author (or editor) or family of authors
authors are contemporaries
common theme/genre
multiple volumes of a single work

One might imagine other unifying factors such as

illustrator
country/region of origin

In some cases (Collectibles for example), none of these are true and size and binding design are really the only things making the books a series (without becoming overly general).

It is with these thoughts in mind that I had proposed above that Travels with Robert Louis Stevenson (3 books) might be considered a subset of a larger series with the Buchan books and that some of the very similar Roman Pisarev-illustrated books could be considered a series. I only have the Sutcliffs however, so I don't know how they all compare size-wise.

128bookfair_e
Editado: Mar 14, 2018, 9:36 pm

Q - Do these five (of the seven) Folio Society bibliographies meet the series criteria?

Folio 21
Folio 1968-1971
Folio 25
Folio 50
Folio 60

Subject/content and format are OK but there are differences in the bindings of the first three and last two; yet clearly a series.

Note: In the photograph, the first three bibliographies are upside-down in order that all five titles read in the same direction.




129wcarter
Mar 10, 2018, 7:06 pm

>127 kronnevik:
Thank you for your input.
In many cases the FS has not specified what constitutes a series, and so the decision as to what to include (or exclude) is very subjective. I have tried to be as inclusive as possible.

E. Nesbit 2 children's trilogies, Folio Press Fine Editions and The Diary of Samuel Pepys LE have now been included.

1. Acknowledge binding variants for Narnia and Hemingway (there may be others).
Done

2. Only the newest Tolkien set and the LE meet the 5-book minimum - the older ones didn't include The Silmarillion
Acknowledged.

3. Paddington shouldn't be included for the same reason Swallows & Amazons shouldn't: they're not FS books (though the slipcase is FS at least for S&A).
Debatable. Included at present.

4. Delete Sutcliff as it doesn't meet 5-book minimum.
Agree. Snuck in when I wasn't lookimng ;-)

5. I would argue that the Josephine Teys are not a series - only two match
Debatable I think they match up quite well. Included so as to be as inclusive as possible.

6. I would argue that Irish Myths and Legends does not belong to Myths and Legends
Another debatable one. Included at present.

7. Orwell should be listed as two separate series
I think the present entry demonstrates the differences and similarities of the sets adequately.

Please let me know if you have any further suggestions.

130folio_books
Mar 11, 2018, 5:06 am

>129 wcarter:

FWIW I agree with all your decisions, especially Irish Myths & Josephine Tey.

131kronnevik
Mar 11, 2018, 5:09 pm

American Founding Fathers:

George Washington
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
Alexander Hamilton

Are there others?

132kronnevik
Mar 11, 2018, 8:28 pm

Binding variant: The History of England from the accession of James II - 5 volumes (brown binding)

133boldface
Mar 11, 2018, 11:01 pm

Re Rudyard Kipling's Works (1996), The Jungle Book (1992) and The Second Jungle Book (1994) were at first published in a slightly larger format. When the rest of the series appeared in a smaller format in 1995 they reduced the size of these two to conform. As they appeared (1992-1995), all the volumes were sold separately in individual slipcases. Why they changed the size midway is anybody's guess. My Jungle Book is a third impression, 1995, and is still in the larger format.

134wcarter
Mar 11, 2018, 11:18 pm

>131 kronnevik:
This is a rare set as I believe it was only marketed in the USA, and the Hamilton volume was withdrawn soon after publication due to copyright issues.
Other FS aficionados may be able to give more information.
Added to list above.

135elladan0891
Mar 14, 2018, 7:59 pm

Waugh: in addition to the Comedies set listed here already, there is another matching 3-volume set - Sword of Honour trilogy.

136wcarter
Mar 14, 2018, 8:38 pm

>135 elladan0891:
Thanks for the suggestion, but from pictures, it does not seem to match the five volume set, so it is a separate three volume set, and therefore does not fit the inclusion criteria.

137bookfair_e
Mar 14, 2018, 10:05 pm

>1 wcarter:

I finally figured out how to get a photograph in my post >128 bookfair_e:

What’s the verdict on the bibliographies?

138wcarter
Editado: Mar 14, 2018, 11:41 pm

>137 bookfair_e:
I think they are two sets, 3 and 2. What do others think?
There is akso the enigmatic Folio 34 to consider.

139bookfair_e
Editado: Mar 15, 2018, 12:25 am

>138 wcarter: There is also the enigmatic Folio 34 to consider.

and Folio 40.

141geoffmiles
Mar 15, 2018, 5:38 am

Under Dorothy L Sayers, I'd suggest adding the 2011 set of 4 (Whose Body, Unnatural Death, Five Red Herrings, Busman's Honeymoon) to the 1998 set of 5. The 2011 books have plain blue-green covers rather than the pictorial covers of 1998, but they're otherwise identical in size, typography, and Natacha Ledwidge illustrations.

142wcarter
Mar 15, 2018, 5:57 am

>141 geoffmiles:
Unfortunately, I think tyhe change in cover style means they are not a series other than being by the same author. I know this is very subjective, but others can give their opinion if they wish.
>140 skullduggery:
Of course. these will be added in.

143cronshaw
Mar 15, 2018, 6:44 am

Again, profuse thanks for all your hard work here, Warwick, this has become a huge and helpful resource generally, if specifically unhelpful in treating the bug Foliophilium delirium.

One suggestion from an unsteadily recovering patient: some series appear difficult to name with a readily identifiable heading as they comprise eclectic titles, or elements of the binding design/materials may be shared with other editions not in that series. For example, 'LE Classics' as a series title seems vague and could describe almost any LE. In such cases, perhaps the series could be named after the earliest of that series to have been published by Folio, perhaps with additional reference to the common binding design, e.g. 'Ulysses-Don Quixote full leather LE series'; or 'The Wind in the Willows quarter vellum LE series' (since neither Gulliver's Travels nor The Wind in the Willows itself are by 'Victorian storytellers'). Other Devotees here may have better solutions.

144wcarter
Editado: Mar 15, 2018, 7:33 am

>143 cronshaw:
Thanks for the ideas.
Further comments and suggestions from everyone please.

145elladan0891
Editado: Mar 15, 2018, 9:43 am

>136 wcarter:
There were two different versions of the trilogy set, you must have stumbled upon the earlier one, which, in fact, has nothing to do with the Comedies set. The later version matches - wrap-around pictorial boards, golden spine titles with "shade" around the the letters, same spine colophon featuring letters "FS" inside an oval of the same color as the "shade" around the title letters, even the same design of the slipcase boards:



Pictures stolen from ebay listings

146elladan0891
Mar 15, 2018, 9:57 am

>143 cronshaw:
To be honest, I think that naming a series by one title that might not have anything to do with the others might be a bit confusing. I'm sure we can come up with better series names if desired. For example, I think "Quarter vellum LE series" would be adequate enough. Coming up with a new name for the "LE Classics" might be a bit more difficult. "Cheaper full-leather fat LEs that should have been split into multiple volumes, mostly with abstract designs" anyone? Just kidding, but someone may come up with a good suggestion.

147gmacaree
Mar 15, 2018, 10:16 am

>146 elladan0891: The Solander Brick series

148cronshaw
Mar 15, 2018, 10:42 am

>146 elladan0891: I agree it's often hard to find a comprehensively adequate solution. I think 'Quarter vellum LE series' is good, it's certainly more succinct.

149folio_books
Mar 15, 2018, 11:10 am

>145 elladan0891:

It's just a shame they didn't design the Comedies set to match the earlier Sword of Honour. Instead they went for plain ugly. Granted, Sword of Hounour isn't as bad as the Comedies, whose spines resemble an explosion in a paint factory. The Sword of Honour Trilogy is prominently displayed on my shelves; the Comedies set is tucked away where it won't cause offence to innocent eyeballs.

It's all a question of individual taste, of course.

And anyway, this is getting away from the point of the thread. Given the evidence you have presented I would agree the two belong together.

150kronnevik
Mar 15, 2018, 11:14 am

>141 geoffmiles:
>142 wcarter:

I agree that the two Sayers sets are not part of the same series. You might, however, argue that the recent Lord Peter Views the Body is in series with with the other Sayers set, making it 5 books. I don't personally take this view, but given that you include several outliers in the listed sets (Irish Myths, Tey titles, Classic Fine editions of various size, etc.), it wouldn't be inconsistent.

Perhaps we could get a photo of Dark Histories with the matching Black Death binding.

Fairy Tale Classics is an interesting one (and you might change the title given all are not Fairy Tales). I think Folio 60 talks about this loose series, but does it ever list titles? Could you include The Secret Garden or even the standard Sandwyk WITW? The two Peter Pan titles are a different size (and Peter and Wendy has two sizes) but also fit the bill. There are probably others. FS marketed the set of 5 Edwardian Facsimiles a few years ago. Did they ever group other titles together for marketing purposes?

What do you think about adding South Polar Times? It seems to meet the criteria.

151cronshaw
Editado: Mar 15, 2018, 11:52 am

>150 kronnevik: What do you think about adding South Polar Times? It seems to meet the criteria.

An interesting point, which would also apply to the limited edition Pepys' Diary and other sets too. It may be helpful to make a distinction between sets and series, and enable this thread to focus on the 'series' for which Devotees are most likely to be searching for missing titles.

A set would comprise multiple volumes that were always sold together by Folio as a complete, single item, e.g. the LEs South Polar Times and Pepys Diary, and non-LE sets such as In Search of Lost Time, Greek Tragedies, and Pliny's Natural History. No volumes within a 'set' would ever have been sold individually by Folio, so Devotees would typically have all or none.

A series would consist of multiple volumes at least some of which were sold separately at one time or another by Folio, e.g. the Aubrey-Maturin, Hitchhiker, Dickens, 1987-91 Fine Press, or Quarter Vellum LE series, for which some Devotees may be missing certain volumes and thus come to this very thread to determine what titles they lack.

152kronnevik
Editado: Mar 15, 2018, 4:19 pm

>151 cronshaw:

Pepys' Diary is already listed. Some categorization may be useful, though it's likely to get messy. Boxed (or otherwise packaged) sets are sometimes book series in which missing a title would be missing an important part of the narrative. The same can be said of series which were never sold collectively. Other boxed sets contain titles not particularly related (think Roald Dahl). Many titles have been sold both as part of a set and individually (the recent Christie titles come to mind). Some series listed contain multiple boxed sets or a combination of boxes and individual volumes in various permutations.

Edit: Your clarifying edit got posted a couple minutes before my response. I think your system works quite well. There may be a bit of grey here and there, but I think the distinction is a useful one.

153folio_books
Mar 15, 2018, 12:17 pm

>151 cronshaw: It may be helpful to make a distinction between sets and series, and enable this thread to focus on the 'series' for which Devotees are most likely to be searching for missing titles.

That's a crucial distinction, Russell, and you make it with great clarity. There was something niggling at me about why South Polar Times and Pepys was just "wrong". Now I understand my instinctive shake of the head.

154cronshaw
Mar 15, 2018, 12:22 pm

>152 kronnevik: I don't believe that Pepys Diary, as a single work and never sold by FS as individual volumes should be considered a 'series' and the inclusion of such sets here may serve only to confuse a thread devoted to 'series'.

155cronshaw
Mar 15, 2018, 12:25 pm

>153 folio_books: I'm reminded of the saying, 'Great minds think alike and fools seldom differ'!

156bookfair_e
Mar 15, 2018, 12:35 pm

>151 cronshaw: A series would consist of multiple volumes sold separately at one time or another by Folio, such as the Aubrey-Maturin or Quarter Vellum LE series, for which some Devotees may be missing certain volumes and thus come to this very thread to determine what titles they lack.

When this topic was created I was under the impression that it was exactly this that was intended; lists of titles issued separately over time which together formed a series with an unmistakable connection, a good example would be the Exploration and Travel with the Victorian style bindings but, not the boxed sets which were marketed as boxed sets only.

157Levin40
Mar 15, 2018, 1:32 pm

>156 bookfair_e:
But it's also possible to have a series of boxed sets, for example Greene, Wodehouse and the Waugh discussed above.

158elladan0891
Mar 15, 2018, 2:10 pm

>151 cronshaw: >153 folio_books: >156 bookfair_e:
When the topic was started, I had the same thoughts, but when single sets started to get added I accepted it after slight initial uneasiness. Firstly, I think it would be silly to undo the work completed already, as the information is useful regardless. Sure, a set might not be the same as a series, but this thread would be useful not just to folks looking for missing volumes of some series they're collecting. I think we, faddicts, sometimes assign too much of a role to a slipcase and should rather think in terms of books more often. People might come here looking for works of some author. People often want and look for matching editions of as many works of some author or another as possible. For example, a fan of, say, Raymond Chandler comes here looking for his novels. Most likely, first and foremost this fan is interested in a matching collection of Chandler's books and wouldn't care that much whether the books were issued individually or in a single slipcase. Currently, he would find them here. If you remove single slipcase sets - he wouldn't.

159kronnevik
Mar 15, 2018, 2:20 pm

>154 cronshaw: Agreed. I've been arguing from the beginning for inner consistency and your proposal is pretty solid. For me, "series" can mean a few things. Narnia is a series, though because it was only sold as a complete set, you're proposing it not be included in this series list. Your method does clarify a lot, but for those wondering if certain series like Narnia were published by FS, it might still invite some confusion.

160Pellias
Mar 15, 2018, 3:06 pm

LE Solander boxed classics series ..

Looking forward for a follow up on a thread like this someday with other criterias. You will have plenty to do in the future >1 wcarter: ;) ..

161wcarter
Editado: Mar 15, 2018, 5:13 pm

Thank you for all the suggestions. As I have said before, the decisions on inclusion and titles are very subjective rather than objective.
I am travelling at the moment, so will sort all this out when I return next week.
Keep the debate going, and by the time I return there may be some consensus.

162cronshaw
Editado: Mar 15, 2018, 6:32 pm

>157 Levin40: I agree. The FS Graham Greene collection would be a series, not a set, precisely because it comprises separate elements which could be bought individually, and thus it is possible to have purchased one or two titles from Folio, or an individual box of six titles, without having the whole series (some fifteen titles to date, I believe). Similarly, the Chandler collection would be a series, not a set (though it's most often available as a box of seven titles) because certain titles were also sold singly in individual slipcases (e.g. The Big Sleep).

>159 kronnevik: Good point about the Folio Narnia set: although from an authorial perspective it is classifiable as a series of distinct titles, from a Folio publishing point of view it would appear to have been sold only as a single complete set.

>161 wcarter: Wishing you happy and safe travels!

163wdripp
Mar 16, 2018, 9:53 am

As someone who has quite a few of these series/sets (and covets others), I support being fairly loose with the criteria of what defines a 5 volume series or set, in the interests of inclusiveness. This information is such a valuable resource, especially given that FS often releases some volumes as individually as well as part of a boxed set, or re-publishes individual titles that had previously been part of a larger series. I know I will be referring to this thread as I track down books on the second hand market.

164elladan0891
Mar 16, 2018, 10:19 am

>162 cronshaw:
I guess I picked a wrong example, since personally I'm not interested in Chandler that much and didn't know that The Big Sleep and some other titles were also available individually. But let's imagine for a minute that no titles were released individually - only a single release of all his novels in a single slipcase. Then would you remove it from this thread?

165cronshaw
Editado: Mar 16, 2018, 2:27 pm

>164 elladan0891: Certainly not if there are a significant number of Devotees, such as wdripp above, who find such broad inclusion helpful.

Unfortunately, what constitutes a 'series' wasn't defined at the beginning of the thread, so we've witnessed the inclusion of several sets that don't very much feel like 'series'. My attempted description of a 'series' as distinct from a 'set' above was only to suggest a way of keeping the thread more clearly defined and focused, so that it could serve more efficiently as an aid for Devotees curious as to which volumes of a series they may be missing. I'm sure there may be a better way of defining 'series' that more people will concur with.

However, it may be easier at this stage of the thread to leave things as they are, with 'series' and 'sets' lumped together as a one comprehensive catalogue. If it then takes a while longer for Devotees to hunt down the information required, they may at least enjoy the longer tour through a leafier landscape.

(edited for afterthought)

166folio_books
Mar 16, 2018, 2:27 pm

>166 folio_books: However, it may be easier at this stage of the thread to leave things as they are, with 'series' and 'sets' lumped together

Well, yes, ish, but I still think the distinction between them is crucially important. If we're to have the like of Pepys Diary and South Polar Times included then, for me, the waters are definitely muddied, and that's a shame.

167cronshaw
Editado: Mar 16, 2018, 2:53 pm

>166 folio_books: Universal contentment may not be achievable

(edited to address Glenn instead of myself)

168folio_books
Editado: Mar 16, 2018, 2:40 pm

It never is, Russell. You just hope for sensible compromise.

Edited to add: And do stop talking to yourself!

169cronshaw
Mar 16, 2018, 2:53 pm

>168 folio_books: I must be over-caffeinated. Time for a G&T.

170folio_books
Mar 16, 2018, 2:59 pm

Now that's a sensible compromise :)

171Pellias
Mar 16, 2018, 3:28 pm

To buy 5 books in one single case (a boxed set), is not what appeals to the completist part of me (which is what this thread for me is about). That would be like buying one book. To buy five separate volumes, in separate cases is what appeals to me. To collect different volumes and put them next to each other. Not just put a single case on the shelf, and go: `there, is my collection of Pliny - i worked hard to collect them all` .. `bull` - you just went ahead and bought the boxed set .. you cheat`

To hunt down for instance the ancient empires series is a fun game - 1 down, 13 more to go - (my kind of fun, jeay! - could be, at least) .. separate volumes appeal much more to me on this thread and in general, rather than boxed sets. Some of the boxed sets looks dull too.

.. and why FS only printed `Persian Wars` in the ancient Greece set, and not the rest in the boxed set as a separate volume, makes me scratch my head (lice maybe?) ..

172wcarter
Mar 18, 2018, 11:37 pm

Back from my wanderings and the impression I get is that you want it to be :-
- as inclusive as possible.
- change titles of limited edition series so now they are listed under Limited Edition first, then a subtitle
- the term series and sets are confusing, and so both are included here. The subtitle of the thread has been changed accordingly (main title cannot be changed).

173Pellias
Mar 24, 2018, 10:51 am

>1 wcarter: The older set of `History of the Decline and fall of the roman empire` set from (maybe) 1989

174drasvola
Mar 24, 2018, 11:26 am

There is a 1981 edition in three volumes of Proust's Remembrance of Things Past.

175wcarter
Mar 24, 2018, 9:42 pm

>173 Pellias:
Now noted.
>174 drasvola:
Only included if five or more volumes in set or series.

176leboucher
Abr 13, 2018, 3:46 pm

Question about the classic fine editions - I have seen a copy of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam which seems to fit the same leather and silk bound series. Is this right? I own the Dante volumes so am more tempted by the new one somehow if it “matches”.

177NLNils
Abr 13, 2018, 5:29 pm

>176 leboucher: Pontus Presents has a extensive video review up on YouTube. I don't know anything about the Dante's qualities, so take a look and see if this answers your question: https://youtu.be/XyPoaisv3SA

178kronnevik
Sep 10, 2018, 9:15 pm

Well the Tey series can be updated and expanded. The Daughter of Time now has a proper series binding and Miss Pym Disposes can be added. I wonder if The Franchise Affair and Brat Farrar will get updated bindings? Likely not the latter, given it's still available.

179wcarter
Sep 10, 2018, 10:25 pm

180CarltonC
Sep 10, 2018, 11:00 pm

>1 wcarter: I do not know how i missed this thread, but an excellent resource and thank you for all the work collating and illustrating the series.
Looking at the list of Rudyard Kipling’s Works, you should I think add:
Stalky & Co
Captains Courageous
Rewards and Fairies

More subjective, but I would have included the later four volume Dorothy L Sayers set with the original five volume set, as although disappointingly different binding, they use the same illustrator, Natacha Ledwidge and are the same size.
However I do not consider the later, excellently illustrated by Paul Cox, Lord Peter views the Body to be in the series.

As someone else has mentioned, I would include the Buchan Stories with the Hannay set, as same binding and illustrator.

Many thanks again for the resource.

181mboyne
Oct 27, 2018, 9:06 pm

A few more that you may want to consider (Folio 60 references in parentheses):

Early Limited Edition Special Bindings
1. The Golden Ass. 1960 (137).
2. Vie de Boheme. 1960 (139).
3. A Journal of the Plaque Year. 1960 (141)
4. Hermsprong. 1960 (143)
5. Memoirs of Louis Philipe. 1960 (145)

Children's Classics
1. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. 1961 (162).
2. Through the Looking Glass. 1962 (174).
3. Treasure Island. 1963 (187).
4. The Rose and the Ring. 1964 (200).
5. Grimm’s Folk Tales. 1965 (214).
6. Little Women. 1966 (228).

First Bronte Series
1. Wuthering Heights. Emily. 1964 (191).
2. Jane Eyre. Charlotte. 1965 (203).
3. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Anne. 1966 (225).
4. Villette. Charlotte. 1967 (243).
5. Shirley. Charlotte. 1968 (259).
6. Agnes Grey. Anne. 1969 (262).
7. The Professor. Charlotte. 1970 (276).

Great Russian Novels
1. War and Peace Vol I. 1997 (298). Third Impression 'reprinted'
2. War and Peace Vol II. 1997 (298). Third Impression 'reprinted'
3. Doctor Zhivago. 1997 (883).
4. Crime and Punishment. 1997 (907). Second Edition
5. The Brothers Karamazov. 2008.

Reprints by Folio Press & J. M. Dent Ltd
1. The Discovery of Tahiti. 1973 (336).
2. Life of Thomas Wolsey. 1973 (337).
3. Nana. 1973 (338).
4. The Compleat Angler. 1973 (339).
5. A Tale of Two Cities. 1973 (340).
6. Poems: P.B. Shelley. 1973 (341).
7. Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde. 1974 (359).
8. Salome. 1974 (360).
9. Typee. 1974 (361).
10. A Journal of the Terror. 1974 (362).
11. The Newgate Calendar. 1974 (363).
12. The Trial of Charles I. 1974 (364).

Folio Miniatures
1. Nicholas Hilliard. 1975 (371.3).
2. Derby Day. 1975 (371.5).
3. The Making of Kew. 1975 (371.7).
4. The Houses of Parliament. 1975 (371.9).
5. Covent Garden. 1976 (394.3).
6. Pyne’s Royal Residences. 1976 (394.5).
7. The Royal Pavilion. 1976 (394.7).
8. London Zoo. 1976 (394.9).
9. The Tower of London. 1977 (425.3).
10. The Pleasures and People of Bath. 1977 (425.5).
11. The History of the Circus. 1977 (425.7).
12. Popular Staffordshire Pottery. 1977 (425.9).

First Trollope Series
1. The Warden. 1976 (391).
2. Barchester Towers. 1977 (410).
3. Doctor Thorne. 1978 (426).
4. Framley Parsonage. 1979 (440).
5. The Small House at Allington. 1980 (459).
6. The Last Chronicle of Barset. 1980 (475).

Second Surtees Series
1. Mr Sponge’s Sporting Tour. 1982 (506.3).
2. Mr Facey Romford’s Hounds. 1982 (506.5).
3. Ask Mama. 1983 (523.7).
4. Handley Cross. 1983 (523.8).
5. Jorrock’s Jaunts and Jollities. 1984 (539.5).
6. Hillingdon Hall. 1985 (554.5).
7. Plain or Ringlets. 1986 (581.5).
8. Young Tom Hall. 1987 (A26).
9. Hawbuck Grange. 1988 (A27).
10. Analysis of the Hunting Field. 1989 (A29).

The Complete Novels of Ann Radcliffe. 1987 (591).
Both normal and special bindings

Second Limited Edition Special Bindings
1. Mr Norris Changes Trains. 1990 (661).
2. Peter Pan. 1992 (734).
3. Of Gods and Men. 1992 (737).
4. The Loved One. 1993 (745).
5. Doctor Faustus. 1993 (749).
6. The Art of Love. 1993 (764).
7. Nursery Rhymes. 1994 (787).
8. The Wind in the Willows. 1995 (809).
9. Brideshead Revisited. 1995 (813).

Later Binding of Bronte Novels
1. Jane Eyre. 2004 (702). Second edition, ninth impression
Jane Eyre. 2004 (931). Third edition, fourth impression
2. Wuthering Heights. 2004 (702). Second edition, ninth impression
Wuthering Heights. 2004 (932). Third edition, third impression
3. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. 2004 (702). Second edition, ninth impression
4. Villette. 2004 (702). Second edition, ninth impression
5. Shirley. 2004 (702). Second edition, ninth impression
6. Agnes Grey. 2004 (702). Second edition, ninth impression
7. The Professor. 2004 (702). Second edition, ninth impression

Bloomsbury Guides to English Literature. 1994 (801).

The Cambridge Cultural History of Britain. 1995 (838).

Art Series
1. Civilisation. 1999 (984).
2. Leonardi de Vinci. 2005 (1261).
3. Michaelangelo. 2007.
4. The Nude. 2011.
5. Landscape into Art. 2014.

Folio Diaries
1. Folio Diary for 2001: ‘Traveller’s Tales’. 2000 (1033).
2. Folio Diary for 2002: ‘Humour’. 2001 (1074).
3. Folio Diary for 2002: ‘Traveller’s Tales’. 2001 (1076.5).
4. Folio Diary for 2003: ‘Traveller’s Tales’. 2002 (1104).
5. Folio Diary for 2003: 'Classical Interest'. 2002 (1112).
6. Folio Diary for 2004: ‘Medieval Iluminations’. 2003 (1152).
7. Folio Diary for 2005: ‘Animals and Beasts’. 2004 (1194).
8. Folio Diary for 2006: ‘The East and Asia’. 2005 (1257).
9. Folio Diary for 2007: ‘Notable Days’. 2006 (1318).
10. Folio Diary for 2009: ‘Life’s Pleasures and Pastimes’. 2008.
11. Folio Diary for 2010: ‘Flora and Fauna’. 2009.
12. Folio Diary for 2011: ‘The World’s Great Cities’. 2010.
13. Folio Diary for 2012: ‘The Pleasures of Food’. 2011.
14. Folio Diary for 2013: ‘Outdoor images and scenery’. 2012.
15. Folio Diary for 2014: ‘The Sea and Marine Life’. 2013.
16. Folio Diary for 2015: ‘Birds’. 2014.
17. Folio Diary for 2016: ‘Monsters, Demons and the like’. 2015.
18. Folio Diary for 2017: ‘Human Ingenuity’. 2016.
19. Folio Diary for 2018: ‘All things Medieval’. 2017.

Buron/Montaigne Series
1. The Anatomy of Melancholy: Vol I. 2005 (1246).
2. The Anatomy of Melancholy: Vol II. 2005 (1246).
3. The Anatomy of Melancholy: Vol III. 2005 (1246).
4. Montaigne’s Essays: Vol I. 2006 (1315).
5. Montaigne’s Essays: Vol II. 2006 (1315).
6. Montaigne’s Essays: Vol III. 2006 (1315).

182mboyne
Oct 27, 2018, 9:33 pm

You might wish to consider amending the entry for Macaulay's History of England. The books shown are from the 1980 - 1986 series, of which there were seven issued:
1. The History of England in the Eighteenth Century. 1980 (465).
2. The History of England from 1485-1685. 1985 (551)
3. The History of England from the Accession of James II; Vol I. 1985 (552).
4. The History of England from the Accession of James II; Vol II. 1985 (552).
5. The History of England from the Accession of James II; Vol III. 1986 (570).
6. The History of England from the Accession of James II; Vol IV. 1986 (570).
7. The History of England from the Accession of James II; Vol V. 1986 (570).

There was a later issue in 2009 of a five volume set, made up of the last five volumes listed above. This later set was issued in a brown binding, and I wonder if this is the binding variant you are referring to under 'History of England series edited by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto'?

183wcarter
Oct 28, 2018, 2:45 am

>181 mboyne:
Thank you for all this information.
It is becoming cumbersome and difficult to add more to the original post, so I have added a postscript to direct people to check the informative posts that have been added over the last 7 months.

184wcarter
Mar 29, 2019, 7:03 am

OP updated with Hornblower series and new Bond title.

185LesMiserables
Abr 18, 2019, 6:44 am

>1 wcarter:
Good Lord, what a delightful resource. Thank you Warwick!

186bacchus.
Jul 26, 2019, 3:19 am

Mr. Carter you're the unsung hero of LT.

On a relevant note, can someone provide their personal feedback on "Ancient Empires" series?

I'm almost done with "GODS, GRAVES & SCHOLARS"; Ceram peaked my interest in ancient civilizations and would like to carry on reading similar folios. "Troy and its remains" by Schliemann and "The Tomb of Tutankhamun" by Carter are also on my sights.

188Comatoes
mayo 25, 2020, 11:33 pm

Would this be considered a Series ''The Folio Book of _____________''?

The bindings and books themselves are all quite different in presentation except The Folio Book of title.

The Folio Book of Horror Stories
The Folio Book of Ghost Stories
The Folio Book of Science
The Folio Book of Children’s Poetry
The Folio Book of Great Short Stories
The Folio Book of Food and Drink
The Folio Book of Humorous Anecdotes
The Folio Book of Days
The Folio Book of Humorous Verse
The Folio Book of Short Novels Folio Society
The Folio Book of Carols
The Folio Book of Historical Mysteries
The Folio Book of Comic Short Stories
The Folio Book of Literary Puzzles

189podaniel
mayo 26, 2020, 9:11 am

>188 Comatoes:

Yes, it is the Folio Book of Large Profit Margins by Collating Out-of-Copyright Material Under Some Vague General Heading.

190LondonLawyer
mayo 26, 2020, 11:34 am

I've just noticed that the Akenfield/Innkepper's Diary/In Search of England set hasn't made it on to the list yet. Not sure if there are any other titles in that series - does anyone know?

191affle
mayo 26, 2020, 12:02 pm

>190 LondonLawyer:

No more of these. One good, two duds.

192adriano77
mayo 26, 2020, 12:06 pm

Isn't the 'modern science' (Chaos, Brief History of Time, Elegant Universe and, now, Structure of Scientific Revolutions) series applicable here?

193Fierylunar
Editado: mayo 26, 2020, 12:07 pm

Also new to the list is A Song of Ice and Fire, since book 2 was recently released.

Edit to add: >192 adriano77: you're entirely right! I hadn't even thought of that one, even though I like the series very much.

194bookfair_e
mayo 26, 2020, 12:41 pm

>190 LondonLawyer:
>192 adriano77:

The entry requirements as in >1 wcarter:

With a minimum of five books in a series or set.

195boldface
mayo 26, 2020, 1:30 pm

>191 affle:

I'm guessing it's Akenfield that meets with your approval, but to my mind all three are classics in their own way.

196kronnevik
mayo 26, 2020, 2:01 pm

Josephine Tey could be updated now. There are six series titles. I'd argued before that this was not a proper series (based on the books in the original photos). This is confirmed now that FS has updated previous bindings (with the exception of Brat Farrar) to match with the initial The Singing Sands and A Shilling for Candles and added more series titles. I'm curious to see if FS will rerelease Brat Farrar in a series binding. Was that the most recent FS Tey prior to the current series? The current series includes:

The Franchise Affair
To Love and Be Wise
The Singing Sands
A Shilling for Candles
Miss Pym Disposes
The Daughter of Time

197affle
mayo 26, 2020, 4:00 pm

>195 boldface:

Of course, but classics of their own time might be a better description - the two duds are difficult to appreciate with modern sensibilities, but Blythe's empathy endures.

198vmb443
mayo 26, 2020, 8:49 pm

>196 kronnevik: I hope they do - that Brat Farrar is driving me crazy sitting next to all the other Tey’s on my shelf - especially next to the Christie’s, Maigret and the blue Sayers (don’t get me started on the one Sayers set not in union with the other one and the two individuals). I do like my order and things in a series and one out of it will drive me nuts!

199elladan0891
mayo 26, 2020, 10:05 pm

There are at least a couple of new series to add:

Simenon's Maigret:
Set 1:
Maigret and the Calame Report
Maigret and the Saturday Caller
Maigret and the Wine Merchant
Set 2:
Maigret in Society
Maigret Sets a Trap
Maigret’s Mistake

The new Wodehouse series now numbers the minimally required 5:
The Clicking of Cuthbert
Thank You, Jeeves
Jeeves and Wooster Stories set:
The Inimitable Jeeves
Carry On, Jeeves
Very Good, Jeeves

And some additions:

Christie:
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Five Little Pigs

Ancient Empires:
The Anglo-Saxons by James Campbell
The Aztecs by Richard F. Townsend

I'm sure a few new Bonds also came out.

200wcarter
mayo 27, 2020, 4:06 am

>199 elladan0891:
Updated Simenon, Christie and Wodehouse.
Not so sure that the Anglo-Saxons and Aztecs are part of the Ancient Empire series as their two volume plate and text format is rather different. I think they better match the similar Tutankhamen two volume edition.
Thanks for the information.

201Levin40
mayo 27, 2020, 4:49 am

>200 wcarter: Hornblower should also be updated with set 3.

The Van Sandwyck illustrated volumes make a lovely set...though as of now they only number 4 (not including Blue Fairy Book). That could be one of the few examples of a set linked by illustrator rather than author or theme.

202jsg1976
mayo 27, 2020, 4:52 am

New Hornblower set 3 can be added as well

203kdweber
mayo 27, 2020, 12:59 pm

Does the new Pilgrim's Progress LE count as a member of the Classic Fine Editions? I have mine shelved with the rest of the series but it has a cloth slipcase and different font on the spine.

204thisGuy33
mayo 27, 2020, 3:20 pm

Can I ask a naive question ... why is it when I see people post their shelves of all their books ... you almost always see everyone with the 'Andrew Lang's Fairy Books'.

Why was this such a popular series? Is it because the book spines are really well done and look beautiful on the shelf. Or is it because when they were released there was good marketing and the price was just right?

Or is the content really good?

I have not read much 'fairy tales' ... and am not a huge reader of 'short stories' ... And I am starting to think I may be missing out on some really good reads.

So please enlighten me ... should I explore some fairy tales and short stories ... even though I still have so many larger titles I still need to dig my teeth into.

205kire-nrojb
mayo 27, 2020, 3:23 pm

😁😁

206Fierylunar
mayo 27, 2020, 4:45 pm

>204 thisGuy33: Having read through the Blue and Red Fairy Books (aborting my mission half-way through Yellow), I can honestly say it's a matter of looks over content for me. I own the first four (a membership renewal offer) and reading two or three stories a day quickly becomes a drag (note that each subsequent book the fairy tales become less and less well known). Maybe if you have little children to read to there's a chance of getting through all 13, but I'm guessing most just stand around looking pretty and unread. Give the first book a try if you want to, it's readily available. And beware - it gets more and more expensive the further you go into the series on the second hand market.

207elladan0891
Editado: mayo 27, 2020, 5:28 pm

>204 thisGuy33:
You should definitely dip into short stories, and try different ones, they're as varied as novels. Think what authors and kind of books you like, and dig in that direction.

Fairy tales though... I think it's a more special beast. I loved fairy tales as a child, now I read them only to my own child. But there are many adults that do love them and read them for their own enjoyment. I doubt anyone here can predict reliably whether you would like them or not. If you're curious, try some out...

208Sorion
mayo 27, 2020, 8:08 pm

>204 thisGuy33: I own several and have never personally opened them. I bought them for my kids and my middle daughter specifically loves them, reading them in bed at night.

209skullduggery
Editado: mayo 27, 2020, 8:16 pm

>204 thisGuy33: Andrew Lang's fairy tale collections were enormously influential because he and his wife collected tales from all around the world, and when they published the series it was the first appearance for many of the tales in English. British fairy tale collections were pretty rare before these books came out, and the series had quite an impact on the development of children's literature. So if you're interested in fairy tales, the series not only is entertaining because of the many hundreds of tales from different cultures, but also valuable from a historical point of view.

However, in addition to the dated style of writing, the stories are intended for children and some of the tales are also a bit bowdlerlised, so how much you enjoy reading them may be impacted by these factors. If you just want to get a feel for the text, all the stories are freely available online through Project Gutenberg here: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/30580/30580-h/30580-h.htm

But in terms of physical design, the Folio Society editions of these books are really stunning. The intricate spines and covers hark back to the golden age of book design, and they really draw the eye on the shelf. Internally, the layout and white space make them really easy to read, and FS commissioned many leading illustrators for the interiors and each volume is gorgeous.

If you're interested to see inside the different volumes (and hear more history, haha), I reviewed the complete FS Fairy Book collection in a video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8aXJq5kbTE

Finally - FS used to offer the first few volumes in this series as a "joining set" back in the days they did this sort of thing, so you possibly see these volumes (blue, red, green) on people's shelves because they either took advantage of one of these offers to test the waters, or maybe picked them up cheaply from someone else who sold them off.

210wcarter
mayo 27, 2020, 8:20 pm

>204 thisGuy33:
I am probably one of the very few people with a significant collection of FS books who has none of Lang's Fairy tales. Of no interest to me.

211wdripp
mayo 27, 2020, 9:03 pm

>204 thisGuy33: I love fairy tales and children's books in general, and own most of the children's books FS have put out.

The Lang books are some of my favorites, and I agree with everything >209 skullduggery: says about them. I also highly recommend the youtube video she linked if you'd like to get a better sense of the series.

When they were first released, a lot of the books were offered with a discount, so it was not terribly expensive to buy them all. It is unfortunate that some have become so expensive on the secondary market.

212wdripp
mayo 27, 2020, 9:09 pm

>200 wcarter: I consider these part of the Ancient Empire series. Besides their content the spines of the primary volumes are quite similar, including the FS colophon which matches the earlier volumes.

Incidentally, I have come to really dislike the circular FS colophon being slapped on all new books that aren't part of an existing series, and it has made me appreciate all the more the varied styles used in earlier FS books.

213Jayked
mayo 27, 2020, 9:15 pm

>210 wcarter:
We few, we grumpy few. I didn't like them when I was a kid, either.

214skullduggery
mayo 27, 2020, 9:28 pm

>212 wdripp: I really miss those beautifully designed individual FS logos too - they used to be such a creative element of the book design...

215kdweber
mayo 27, 2020, 9:35 pm

>210 wcarter: >213 Jayked: Over 500 FS titles and no Lang Fairy Books.

216coynedj
mayo 27, 2020, 9:56 pm

>210 wcarter: - I've been buying FS books for more than thirty years, and have no Lang Fairy Books and no LEs. Some day I might purchase an LE, but those Fairy Books will remain unpurchased - I buy to read, and don't see myself ever reading them.

218thisGuy33
mayo 27, 2020, 10:33 pm

Thank you all so very much for sharing your thoughts and suggestions for further research. >209 skullduggery: i will be watching the video later tonight for sure and have bookmarked the 'Project Gutenberg' link to check out.

>207 elladan0891: I will definitely take the 'dip' into some short stories ... i'm looking forward to exploring.

From all your comments I am ok with my prior assumed reasoning for why I see the Fairy Series of books in many peoples libraries ... they were a good offering by FS when they were released (price wise) ... and they indeed do look stunning ... especially when displayed on the shelf all together.

As much as I do love beautiful display pieces i too, like >216 coynedj: said ... buy to read. So I think the 'itch' I get every 6 months or so to pick up a few of these Fairy books might finally be eased.

Thx again for helping me with this OT question.

219affle
mayo 28, 2020, 5:18 am


And I'm another with no fairies at the bottom of the garden. Or nursery books of any kind, with the solitary exception of the Pooh trilogy.

220drasvola
mayo 28, 2020, 6:11 am

For a very long time I have had only one fairy book in the Lang series, the Red one. When the Blue one was released again, I bought it. However, that's it. I have no interest in the series.

221Comatoes
mayo 28, 2020, 8:17 am

>204 thisGuy33:

Fairytales is where myths, symbols, and the human condition reside. It’s the basis for many fiction books the world over. If you like fiction, fairytales can add to your knowledge. It’s too wide to go into here but I’m sure all great writers used fairytales in some form to explain a concept in an entirely different perspective. I’m sure J.R.R. Tolkien, J.K. Rowling, even George R.R. Martin read fairytales to flush out their stories. It’s a treasure trove of hidden information.

“Fairy tales are the purest and simplest expression of collective unconscious processes... They represent the archetypes in their simplest, barest, and most concise form ... and afford us the best clues to the understanding of the processes going on in the collective psyche.”
— Marie-Louise von Franz

“The consolation of fairy-stories, the joy of the happy ending; or more correctly of the good catastrophe, the sudden joyous "turn" (for there is no true end to any fairy-tale): this joy, which is one of the things which fairy-stories can produce supremely well, is not essentially "escapist," nor "fugitive." In its fairy-tale -- or otherworld -- setting, it is a sudden and miraculous grace: never to be counted on to recur. It does not deny the existence of dyscatastrophe, of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance; it denies (in the face of much evidence, if you will) universal final defeat and in so far is evangelium, giving a fleeting glimpse of Joy, Joy beyond the walls of the world, poignant as grief.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

I personally use them for a reference, but everyone is different in their interest.

I think they are popular because at one time some were given out for membership, easy to complete if you stayed on top of release dates, and have nice aesthetics and illustrations.

222Jayked
mayo 28, 2020, 9:04 am

>221 Comatoes: I think you have to distinguish, as Tolkien apparently did not, between the folk tale and the Fairy Tale, its bowdlerised spinoff for children. Although I don't own any Lang I do have, and have laboriously read, the Folk Tales of Britain series, and some of their European counterparts, which have been meticulously catalogued and classified into common origins. You can find traces of them in e.g. Beowulf and Gretissaga, a far cry from the nursery.

223thisGuy33
mayo 28, 2020, 1:39 pm

>221 Comatoes: I do like me some fiction. I am currently finishing up the first of the FS GOT releases ... and am hoping to continue in the coming weeks with the second release when that arrives at my doorsteps. I also have EP's LOTR on the 'next to read' shelf. So I think some fairytales might be something I should explore and mix in.

I have a huge heart for Dickens, Twain, and so many others of that like ... but I do so very much love me some fiction, fantasy, dragons, goblins, gnomes, wizards, magic ... stories of the imaginary world ...

So maybe it's time to explore a Fairytale or two!

224reticular
Editado: mayo 28, 2020, 1:51 pm

Tolkien was talking specifically about fairy tales, not folk stories, and called their relegation to 'children's tales' an "accident of our domestic history". Continuing, "Among those who still have enough wisdom not to think fairy-stories pernicious, the common opinion seems to be that there is a natural connexion between the minds of children and fairy-stories, of the same order as the connexion between children’s bodies and milk. I think this is an error; at best an error of false sentiment, and one that is therefore most often made by those who, for whatever private reason (such as childlessness), tend to think of children as a special kind of creature, almost a different race, rather than as normal, if immature, members of a particular family, and of the human family at large."

Fairy tales may not be for you, but to disregard them flippantly is a mistake. I highly recommend his essay, 'On Fairy-Stories'.

225Jayked
mayo 28, 2020, 5:54 pm

I've read Tree and Leaf, and most of Tolkien's lesser works. For me, the essay On Fairy-Stories falls into the same category as the theoretical musings of Poe and James as an attempt to increase in the public mind the critical value of their own work. First you write the work, then the theoretical justification. The more philosophical dust you can raise the less obvious is the triviality of what you've created.
Oddly enough for this thread, Tolkien is pretty dismissive of Perrault, and Lang's Blue: "of the stories in this Blue Fairy Book none are primarily about 'fairies,' few refer to them." In general he dislikes "these French things." He questions the inclusion of Lilliput (as would I). He is equally critical of stories included in later volumes from other cultures. But he casts so wide a net that it's easy to pull out a sentence to support some minor point of one's own. His peroration makes it clear that his underlying ethos is Christian Joy, much as was Lewis's. I really don't see that you can use him as support for Lang.

226elladan0891
Editado: mayo 28, 2020, 6:35 pm

>200 wcarter: "Not so sure that the Anglo-Saxons and Aztecs are part of the Ancient Empire series as their two volume plate and text format is rather different. I think they better match the similar Tutankhamen two volume edition."

As >212 wdripp: mentioned, nowadays the very fact that a spine's colophon matches earlier volumes is pretty much a dead giveaway that FS specifically intended it to be in series with older volumes. They don't vary colophon otherwise. But I think pictures would speak better than words:

Tut and Anglo-Saxons:




So nothing in common apart from featuring a companion volume.
On the other hand:






I rest my case.

Now, one thing worth mentioning is that FS always had a degree of non-uniformity within the Ancient Empires/Civilizations series. Firstly, there are 2 main styles within the series, which differ both in the looks of the spines and title pages. Volumes with humanoid figures on the spines feature very different style of their title pages from the ones shown here. And then within each of these 2 styles there are minor variations, e.g. different fonts used for titles on the spines etc. Never been a series for folks with major OCD - they started flip-flopping between 2 major styles right off the bat when they launched the series...

227wcarter
Editado: mayo 28, 2020, 6:42 pm

>226 elladan0891:
You are very persuasive!
Anglo-Saxons added. I'll add pictures later.
Should the new Aztecs volume replace the old one, or include both?

228wdripp
mayo 28, 2020, 8:34 pm

>227 wcarter: I vote for including both, since they are different authors.

229elladan0891
mayo 29, 2020, 10:31 am

>227 wcarter:
Agree with >228 wdripp: the new volume is not a beefed up reissue, but a different book by a different author, so both should be included.

230Caput_Lupinum
Feb 21, 2021, 10:02 am

>192 adriano77: Is The Structure of Scientific Revolutions definitely in series with Chaos, A Brief History of Time, and The Elegant Universe? It certainly looks very similar to those three works, but for some reason the FS don't seem to have promoted it alongside them (whereas they did promote the other three as a set).

231abysswalker
Editado: Feb 21, 2021, 2:49 pm

>230 Caput_Lupinum: Kuhn is not the same kind of book at all as those others, so I doubt it is intended to be part of a series with them. Maybe just coincidence due to “science” or possibly the same book designer?

As a side note, a series for the classics of philosophy of science would be fantastic, if there are Folio agents among us. Along with Kuhn: Popper, Lakatos, maybe Feyerabend (which might sell well, but ugh).

232Caput_Lupinum
Feb 21, 2021, 6:30 pm

>231 abysswalker: Thanks. I suspect you’re right about the same book designer being used without the books being officially ‘in series’. I think all 4 volumes are 9.5 inches, quarter bound with cloth, with dark covers that have an image partially clipped at the left-hand edge. All are set in Haarlemmer too.

Oh, and I fully support the idea of a series of philosophy of science classics.

233elladan0891
Feb 21, 2021, 10:47 pm

>230 Caput_Lupinum:
I have all 4, and they're definitely in series.

>231 abysswalker:
Design scheme can't be a coincidence. It's obviously intended to sit alongside the others. Another clue is FS colophon on the spine. Nowadays they always slap the same oval colophon whether it fits the overall design or not, unfortunately. You will see a different colophon only when they try to match an existing series, as is the case here.

Side note: Kuhn is printed in China, unlike the previous three volumes; so like other Chinese Folios features that unpleasantly smooth Yu Long Pure paper.

234Caput_Lupinum
Feb 22, 2021, 6:33 am

>233 elladan0891: I asked the FS directly whether the Kuhn book was in series with the rest and they replied 'Loosely, yes. It is the same size as those editions, and roughly the same spine width as A Brief History of Time. It will look beautiful alongside.' I don't think that clears things up definitively, but it's probably close enough to suggest that the books belong together on the shelf.

I reckon the FS purposely sought to create the first 3 books in series, and then handed the Kuhn work to the same designer, who worked it up in more-or-less the same style.

I see what you mean about the colophon. Each is a different shape—circle for Hawking, triangle for Greene, square(ish) for Gleick, and rectangle for Kuhn.

235elladan0891
Feb 22, 2021, 9:02 am

>234 Caput_Lupinum: Yeah, sometimes FS CS muddy things up, and sometimes they are even plain wrong. I wouldn't take their every word as a gospel. I suspect this particular representative didn't bother checking with the editorial team and just went with the gut feeling that was telling that there are undeniable similarities which were hard to define precisely, hence the term 'loosely' was chosen. But designs of all other titles in the series are just as loosely connected to each other as the Kuhn - no more, no less. They all have different geometrical spine designs, different fonts and sizes for lettering, yet that's THE theme. If you have all four, you will know that they were all designed specifically to match each other. And it's not just the geometrical theme - it's also evident in the alignment of author names, colophons, same board designs - pictures printed on smooth, glossy paper which is very unusual for FS. Btw, I don't like these glossy paper boards, look unpleasant/cheap IMO; good thing the series is rather a rare exception. Anyway, it's absolutely obvious that the matching look is definitely not the case of coincidence due to some designer's generic style, but that it was specifically designed to match the other 3. I can snap a pic later. Curiously, unusual for FS, neither of 4 books states who designed the spines.

236Caput_Lupinum
Feb 22, 2021, 9:49 am

>235 elladan0891: Thank you for the extra info, that's useful to know.

I currently have The Elegant Universe and A Brief History Of Time, though I placed an order for the Kuhn work a couple of days ago. I'm hoping to get Chaos through eBay, but it seems as if it might be quite hard to find on the secondary market.

It will be interesting to see a) whether the FS will publish any more comparable modern science works e.g. the Popper one mentioned above, and b) whether they keep going with this theme. My money would be on a diamond-shaped colophon next...

237SinsenKrysset
Feb 28, 2021, 7:35 pm

If you have Pliny: The Elder’s Natural History (2012) (Five volume set.) as a book series, surley one would list Plutarch: Lives. (4v.) (2010) as a series.

238affle
Feb 28, 2021, 8:08 pm

>237 SinsenKrysset:

Five volumes is an inclusion criterion see >1 wcarter:

239SinsenKrysset
Mar 1, 2021, 7:17 am

I stand corrected. Thank you!

240Willoyd
Mar 1, 2021, 8:34 am

>238 affle:
Five volumes is an inclusion criterion see >1 wcarter: wcarter:
Who then promptly broke his own rule when including History of the English Speaking Peoples :-)

241Willoyd
Editado: Mar 1, 2021, 8:37 am

>238 affle:
Five volumes is an inclusion criterion see >1 wcarter:
Who then promptly broke his own rule when including A History of the English-Speaking Peoples! :-)

242bookfair_e
Editado: Mar 1, 2021, 10:20 am

>240 Willoyd:

There are five volumes in this series - The fifth volume by Andrew Roberts is bound in series with the Churchill set.

243Willoyd
Editado: Mar 1, 2021, 10:13 am

>242 bookfair_e:

Ah, I missed that - thank you for the correction; it did surprise me! It says Winston S. Churchill's....but as you say, underneath it mentions Andrew Roberts's volume as in series with it. I've only ever had the Churchill, which is worth reading if just for the writing (I'm not a fan of his history, and have just sold the set); the Roberts I wouldn't include amongst that author's better works (I'm being polite).

244bookdude2
Editado: Nov 8, 2021, 3:34 pm

Josephine Tey, To Love and be Wise is available, now.

245PartTimeBookAddict
Feb 19, 2022, 1:34 pm

Does anyone know if Xenophon's "Persian Expedition" or Arrian's "Campaigns of Alexander" were part of a set/series? They almost have a similar design and burnt orange colour to the Ancient Greece set. Were they just one-offs?

246Folio_Fanatic
mayo 18, 2022, 9:58 pm

With the new publication “ Alamein” I believe the Great Battles series now qualifies.

247wcarter
mayo 18, 2022, 10:47 pm

>246 Folio_Fanatic:
I think there are only four so far (Cullodon, Alamein, Waterloo, Thermopylae) and five are needed to qualify for this list. Another release in this series and I will add the series to the database.
Please correct me if I am wrong.

248Folio_Fanatic
mayo 19, 2022, 3:21 am

No you’re right I misremembered and thought it was four not five needed. I think there’s a good chance it will eventually meet the requirement!

249elladan0891
mayo 20, 2022, 12:34 am

>245 PartTimeBookAddict: Both are one-offs. They do fit in organically with other Folios and LECs done in Ancient Greek pottery colors, but the designs are all different from colophons to fonts to decorative elements, as well as the tints of orange.

250PartTimeBookAddict
mayo 20, 2022, 2:01 am

>249 elladan0891: Thanks! That means I have the whole set of two!

251StephenHorsfall
Sep 7, 2022, 5:34 am

I recently bought 'The Folio Book of Humorous Anecdotes'. It looks as though it should be part of the 'Great Humorists' series, but according to the list, it isn't. Is it an accidental omission?

252wcarter
Editado: Sep 7, 2022, 6:07 am

>251 StephenHorsfall:
Good idea, but it seems to be in a quite different binding to the others (see here.) so not part of the series.

253wcarter
Editado: Sep 7, 2022, 6:11 am

>252 wcarter:
This was also suggested in the post by >188 Comatoes:, but the different bindings make it difficult to be called a series.

254Folio_Fanatic
Oct 13, 2022, 4:44 pm

>230 Caput_Lupinum:

With the publication of Parallel Worlds, and the fact they have done the colophon in a trapezoid, I think this definitely makes a series now. Someone did a picture of them all in a Facebook group and it looks very clearly a series!

255Folio_Fanatic
Oct 13, 2022, 4:48 pm

Also, with the publication of The Secret Commonwealth, I personally think the five Philip Pullman books qualify!

256Folio_Fanatic
Oct 13, 2022, 4:50 pm

I really should have thought properly about this and only done one post because I’ve just realised - A Song of Ice and Fire also now qualifies.

257wcarter
Editado: Oct 13, 2022, 9:30 pm

>254 Folio_Fanatic:
Updated
>255 Folio_Fanatic:
I feel the Book of Dust and His Dark Materials are two different series.

258Xandian97
Editado: Oct 14, 2022, 7:19 am

Just had a look through this thread, and was just wondering if the Ancient Empires set isn't really two sets now? I’ve seen other people saying that the set is inconsistent in that it’s split into two styles, but with the publication of Anglo-Saxons, they now seem clearly divided between:

1. Ancient Empires/Civilisations – ancient cultures in the Middle East, Mediterranean, and the Americas, with the spine design having figures.

2. Cultures that shaped Britain & Ireland (snappier title needed) – the Celts, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, and Normans, with the spine design having patterns.

I can understand them both being lumped in together before because of the matching colophon and book size, and because the latter set has less than 5 books in it and were released individually over a longer period than the Ancient Empires. But still, the differing spine designs and type of cultures do seem to clearly differentiate them, to me at least.

I guess that for the purposes of this thread and the 5-book rule, they should stay as one series for now, but if another book comes out with a patterned spine on a culture that influenced Britain (the only one left I can think of is the Romans), I think they should be divided into two series.

(The Romans seem to be glaring omissions from both sets – having been both an Ancient Empire, and the last major culture that shaped Britain. I guess they’re such a large topic that FS might have decided not to include them in either, and print more specialised books like Mary Beard’s? Still, I’m hoping for a ‘The Romans’ book on Roman Britain st some point)

259mboyne
Editado: Oct 15, 2022, 6:04 am

Some suggested updates to the series:

Artist Presentation Books
You might want to include Canaletto (FS60 240)
Different size, but similar binding and issued (like the others) as presentation volumes for re-joining members in the 1960s and early 70s

Jane Austen
The first set finished in 1963, not 1961
Is the second set referred to (1968) the Northanger set of Horrid Novels? If so, it already has a section of its own, below.
The fourth set in your list should be split into two different series: one from 2006 -2007 consisting of three titles – and so you may therefore want to exclude it as it doesn’t meet your criteria for a minimum of three books - (FS 60 1345 and two later books) and the other from 2013 – 2017 consisting of six titles

Bellicose series
Folio 60 includes The Hundred Years Was (FS 60 1279) in this series

The Bronte Sisters
There is another set 1964 – 71 (FS 60 191, 203, 225, 243, 259, 262 and 276). I would include The Life of Charlotte Bronte. 1971 (FS60 295) in this set - it is bound in a similar manner and FS60 notes that ‘the spine is decorated with the series design used for the Brontës’ works’.
The second set came in two different bindings

John Buchan
Is this in series with the Travels with Robert Louis Stevenson set of 2004 (FS 60 1180)?

Raymond Chandlers Novels
This came in two different bindings

Winston Churchill’s The Second World War and World Crisis
I think these are in a single series

Charles Dickens
The incomplete set 1952-57 mentioned is not a series at all (except Dickens’ London and Dickens in Europe, which are is series with each other) but a collection of individual books
The same with the 1970 ‘set’ which I think is just one volume

Great Humourists
I am not sure that The Best of the Marx Brothers is part of this eries. It has a very different binding and is a different size

Rulers of the Ancient World
Folio 60 says that Daily Life in Ancient Rome is n a style and format uniform with Folio’s series of classical biographies (see item 887).

Shakespeare
The Sonnets issued in 1948 is not part of the first series, which started in 1950 with Romeo and Juliet
The 1997 set came in two different bindings

Josephine Tey
The series should also include To Love and be Wise

J R R Tolkien
If you are to include incomplete sets (which have less than five volumes) should you also include the recent limited edition of Lord of the Rings?

I think that you should consider including the following:

The first Folio Poets series. Folio 60 gives against item 4 ’This was the first in an informal series of poetry books, mostly by British poets, printed in crown octavo format, issued in quarter leather and usually illustrated with wood-engravings; the series was sometimes referred to as ‘The Folio Poets’ (see also items 9, 19, 23, 38, 52, 57, 86.5, 123, 124.5, 136, 184, 189.7, 195, 208, 278, 357, 384, 443 and 464). A new ‘Folio Poets’ series began in 2001 (see item 1051). You should probably also include items 160, 175.7 and (possibly) 253

The special leather-bound editions of 1960: 1. The Golden Ass. 1960 (Folio 60 137). Vie de Boheme. 1960 (Folio 60 139), A Journal of the Plaque Year. 1960 (Folio 60 141),Hermsprong. 1960 (Folio 60 143), Memoirs of Louis Philipe. 1960 (Folio 60 145)

Great Russian Novels War and Peace Vol I and II. 1997 (Folio 60 298). Third Impression 'reprinted', Doctor Zhivago. 1997 (Folio 60 883), Crime and Punishment. 1997 (Folio 60 907). Second Edition, The Brothers Karamazov. 2008

Reprints by Folio Press & J. M. Dent Ltd
1. The Discovery of Tahiti. 1973 (Folio 60 336).
2. Life of Thomas Wolsey. 1973 (Folio 60 337).
3. Nana. 1973 (Folio 60 338).
4. The Compleat Angler. 1973 (Folio 60 339).
5. A Tale of Two Cities. 1973 (Folio 60 340).
6. Poems: P.B. Shelley. 1973 (Folio 60 341).
7. Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde. 1974 (Folio 60 359).
8. Salome. 1974 (Folio 60 360).
9. Typee. 1974 (Folio 60 361).
10. A Journal of the Terror. 1974 (Folio 60 362).
11. The Newgate Calendar. 1974 (Folio 60 363).
12. The Trial of Charles I. 1974 (Folio 60 364).

The first Trollope series
1. The Warden. 1976 (Folio 60 391).
2. Barchester Towers. 1977 (Folio 60 410).
3. Doctor Thorne. 1978 (Folio 60 426).
4. Framley Parsonage. 1979 (Folio 70 440).
5. The Small House at Allington. 1980 (Folio 60 459).
6. The Last Chronicle of Barset. 1980 (Folio 60 475).

The second Surtees series
1. Mr Sponge’s Sporting Tour. 1982 (Folio 60 506.3).
2. Mr Facey Romford’s Hounds. 1982 (Folio 60 506.5).
3. Ask Mama. 1983 (Folio 60 523.7).
4. Handley Cross. 1983 (Folio 60 523.8).
5. Jorrock’s Jaunts and Jollities. 1984 (Folio 60 539.5).
6. Hillingdon Hall. 1985 (Folio 60 554.5).
7. Plain or Ringlets. 1986 (Folio 60 581.5).
8. Young Tom Hall. 1987 (Folio 60 A26).
9. Hawbuck Grange. 1988 (Folio 60 A27).
10. Analysis of the Hunting Field. 1989 (Folio 60 A29).

The 1990s limited edition series
1. Mr Norris Changes Trains. 1990 (Folio 60 661).
2. Peter Pan. 1992 (Folio 60 734).
3. Of Gods and Men. 1992 (Folio 60 737).
4. The Loved One. 1993 (Folio 60 745).
5. Doctor Faustus. 1993 (Folio 60 749).
6. The Art of Love. 1993 (Folio 60 764).
7. Nursery Rhymes. 1994 Folio 60 (787).
8. The Wind in the Willows. 1995 (Folio 60 809).
9. Brideshead Revisited. 1995 (Folio 60 813).

The second set of myths and legends
1. The Greek Myths: Vol I. 1998 (Folio 60 924). @
2. The Greek Myths: Vol II. 1998 (Folio 60 924). @
3. Legends of King Arthur: Arthur. 2001 (Folio 60 1078). @
4. Legends of King Arthur: Tristan. 2001 (Folio 60 1078). @
5. Legends of King Arthur: The Holy Grail. 2001 (Folio 60 1078). @
6. British Myths and Legends: Marvels and Magic. 2002 (Folio 60 1123.5). @
7. British Myths and Legends: Heroes and Saints. 2002 (Folio 60 1123.5). @
8. British Myths and Legends: History and Romance. 2002 (Folio 60 1123.5). @

The second art series
1. Civilisation. 1999 (Folio 60 984).
2. Leonardo de Vinci. 2005 (Folio 60 1261).
3. Michaelangelo. 2007
4. The Nude. 2010
5. Landscape into Art. 2014

The Folio Diaries
1. Folio Diary for 2001: ‘Traveller’s Tales’. 2000 (Folio 60 1033).
2. Folio Diary for 2002: ‘Humour’. 2001 (Folio 60 1074).
3. Folio Diary for 2002: ‘Traveller’s Tales’. 2001 (Folio 60 1076.5).
4. Folio Diary for 2003: ‘Traveller’s Tales’. 2002 (Folio 60 1104).
5. Folio Diary for 2003: 'Classical Interest'. 2002 (Folio 60 1112).
6. Folio Diary for 2004: ‘Medieval Iluminations’. 2003 (Folio 60 1152).
7. Folio Diary for 2005: ‘Animals and Beasts’. 2004 (Folio 60 1194).
8. Folio Diary for 2006: ‘The East and Asia’. 2005 (Folio 60 1257).
9. Folio Diary for 2007: ‘Notable Days’. 2006 (Folio 60 1318).
10. Folio Diary for 2008: ‘The Fine Art of Book Illustration ’. 2007
11. Folio Diary for 2009: ‘Life’s Pleasures and Pastimes’. 2008
12. Folio Diary for 2010: ‘Flora and Fauna’. 2009
13. Folio Diary for 2011: ‘The World’s Great Cities’. 2010
14. Folio Diary for 2012: ‘The Pleasures of Food’. 2011
15. Folio Diary for 2013: ‘Outdoor images and scenery’. 2012
16. Folio Diary for 2014: ‘The Sea and Marine Life’. 2013
17. Folio Diary for 2015: ‘Birds’. 2014
18. Folio Diary for 2016: ‘Monsters, Demons and the like’. 2015
19. Folio Diary for 2017: ‘Human Ingenuity’. 2016
20. Folio Diary for 2018: ‘All things Medieval’. 2017
21. Folio Diary for 2019. 2018
22. Folio Diary for 2020. 2019
23. Folio Diary for 2021. 2020.
24. Folio Diary for 2022. 2021.
25. Folio Diary for 2023. 2022.

Ursula Le Guin
1. The Wizard of Earthsea. 2015
2. The Left Hand of Darkness. 2016
3. The Dispossessed. 2019
4. The Tombs of Atuan. 2022.
5. The Farthest Shore. 2022.

260mboyne
Oct 15, 2022, 6:10 am

And a few more:

For Macaulay's History of England, there was a later issue in 2009 of a five volume set, made up of the last five volumes listed above. This later set was issued in a brown binding, and I wonder if this is the binding variant you are referring to under 'History of England series edited by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto'?

New to add:

Bloomsbury Guides to English Literature. 1994 (FS 60 801).

The Cambridge Cultural History of Britain. 1995 (FS 60 838).

The Complete Novels of Ann Radcliffe. 1987 (FS 60 591).
Both normal and special bindings

261wcarter
Oct 15, 2022, 8:17 am

>259 mboyne: >260 mboyne:
All your additions and alterations are a bit overwhelming! I will get to them in due course.
In the meantime, the last paragraph of the list reads -
THIS LIST IS NOT DEFINITIVE AND THERE ARE OTHER SERIES THAT ARE NOT INCLUDED ABOVE.
PLEASE REFER TO THE MANY POSTS BELOW TO CHECK FOR DETAILS OF OTHER SERIES DISCOVERED BY FSD MEMBERS

262mboyne
Oct 15, 2022, 8:27 am

Completely understand, and apologies for sending so many at one time

263SinsenKrysset
Dic 16, 2022, 8:08 am

I was looking at some pictures of The highland trilogy and they remind me of the Bellicose Series. Could they be a part of that series? I do not now if the dimensions are the same though. Some thoughts?

264elladan0891
Dic 16, 2022, 12:45 pm

>259 mboyne: Bellicose series
Folio 60 includes The Hundred Years Was (FS 60 1279) in this series


see >41 elladan0891: "Folio 60 calls it the "bellicose series"; incidentally, it mistakenly lists The Hundred Years War from 2005 as part of the series, but it doesn't have any of the common elements of the series."

I don't think Le Guin's Earthsea and Hainish novels are part of the same series. Look at the spines. Earthsea and Hainish titles have 2 different distinct looks - the orientation of author names and titles, colors, fonts, etc. Title pages are in two different styles as well.

Great investigative work on the diaries, but I'm not sure they qualify as book series (or even series at all) :)

266Danspiral
Editado: Ene 24, 2023, 8:09 am


Here's the Ancient Empire set. My photo. I don't want to include the new ones because they look too different and are a duplicate besides. Anyhow it's worth noting the slipcases are altered from original issue so that might invalidate the photo for this use.. . But I hope you can use it. I feel it's their finest looking set when presented this way. Apart from that crazy K. Dick set. Enjoy

267podaniel
Ene 24, 2023, 9:31 am

I have this 14-volume set as well and have never cracked open any of the books. Has anyone read any of these and were some better reads than others?

268Forthwith
Ene 27, 2023, 6:15 pm

>266 Danspiral: Thanks. I somehow missed "The Normans" and "Empires of the Nile."

269Son.of.York
Ene 28, 2023, 7:44 am

>258 Xandian97:

I do believe you’re right, there are two sub-species of spine design here.

The “Ancient Empires/Civilisations” all show human figures facing to the right. Above and below each is a design from their culture: above this is rounded or (vaguely) triangular, and below is a rectangular base on which the figure stands.

But the “Cultures that shaped Britain & Ireland” do not show a human figure and have no triangular design above or rectangular base below. Instead, each has a sinuous design snaking from top to bottom—for The Celtics this appears to be a plant, for The Vikings perhaps it’s a belt, and for the Normans also a plant. Not shown in the photo of > 266 Danspiral is The Anglo Saxons, which also has this sinuous design, apparently a snake.

All volumes use the identical colophon and same general layout, so I think we have two sub-species of a single series.

The only part of this series that I’ve read is “The Decipherment of Linear B” by John Chadwick, the second half of the volume on The Myceneans. It’s not about the ancient culture but, as the title indicates, rather tells the very interesting detective story of decoding their script (which turned out to represent an early form of Greek). Short and well worth a read.

270David_Mauduit
Ene 28, 2023, 8:44 am

The Josephine Tey list seems incomplete. To Love and be wise is missing, maybe other too.

271wcarter
Ene 28, 2023, 4:28 pm

>279 JacobHolt:
Fixed.
I will add the five super hero books soon.
This list will always be contentious and probably never complete, but gives some idea of the different series available.

272Danspiral
Editado: Feb 6, 2023, 4:46 pm

Does anybody know if there's any more like these?

273shaniaREAL
Feb 7, 2023, 1:17 pm

black panther is missing under the marvel superheroes section

274wcarter
Feb 7, 2023, 4:00 pm

>273 shaniaREAL:
Black Panther is not a Marvel Superhero book, but a serious novel.

275mr.philistine
Feb 7, 2023, 5:09 pm

>272 Danspiral: Folio 75 states this of The Stones of Venice: 'The design was inspired by the style of the series of Victorian travel and exploration (see item 766), but with a squarer format and more generous margins.'

Both covers are designed by David Eccles - who also designed 17 of the 19 covers from the Victorian Exploration and Travel series. The other covers were designed as follows:

The Great Game - Neil Gower, based on a design by Gavin Morris
The Oregon Trail (2008) - Chris Costello

I wonder if My Early Life: A Roving Commission, cover also designed by Neil Gower belongs in the above series.

276mr.philistine
Feb 8, 2023, 6:17 am

>274 wcarter: Black Panther is not a Marvel Superhero book, but a serious novel.

I must be missing a joke somewhere, but the FS website describes the book as follows:
"Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet showcases one of Marvel’s most iconic Super Heroes."

277wcarter
Feb 8, 2023, 7:06 am

>276 mr.philistine:
My apologies, I misread the FS website as this comic is in a different style to the other five. You are correct.

278shaniaREAL
Feb 8, 2023, 3:32 pm

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LMFAO really showing your age there

279JacobHolt
Feb 8, 2023, 4:49 pm

>277 wcarter: Different style and different content. Black Panther is a reprint of a recent graphic novel that was conceived and published as a complete story; while the other five are selections of classic standalone issues (sort of like "greatest hits" albums). This is a big enough difference that I assume Black Panther wouldn't count as part of the series for purposes of your list.

280wcarter
Feb 8, 2023, 5:07 pm

>279 JacobHolt: I suspect you are right, that the different style excludes it from being included with the other Marvel books.
>278 shaniaREAL: I don't mind showing my age, its who I am ;-)

281Luke.w
Feb 8, 2023, 9:17 pm

FS does advertise it as their Marvel series, for what it's worth.

https://www.foliosociety.com/usa/marvel

282shaniaREAL
Feb 8, 2023, 10:26 pm

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y'all sensitive af for flagging that comment smdh

https://www.foliosociety.com/usa/marvel

283ranbarnes
Feb 9, 2023, 1:43 pm

>282 shaniaREAL:
You might have noticed that discussion in this group tends to avoid text speak, profanity and abbreviations. Your first post was pointing out a possible missing entry in the wiki. Did you make this comment as a contribution? What others pointed out the possibility that the wiki was wrong, your sole contribution was an ageist comment. Sensitive af we may be, but I don't think this is the right forum for you.

284shaniaREAL
Feb 10, 2023, 9:33 am

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that "ageist comment" was meant as a joke holy shit no wonder you guys have such a pretentious ass snobbish reputation

285Danspiral
Editado: Feb 13, 2023, 1:03 pm

>275 mr.philistine: This is funny. I like those designs very much as well and actually have them all but for "the great game" as listed on this list. Should the two books I have pictured be included in the Exploration Series? The subject matter is related only at a stretch. I'll post pics when I have a moment.

286Danspiral
Editado: Feb 13, 2023, 1:08 pm

Also yes, My Early Life fits aesthetically, topically and if not for his overshadowing histories would be as renowned as any of the others in that series. Not that my vote counts for much but ya from me.

287Danspiral
Editado: Mar 9, 2023, 7:18 pm

*Edited* Nevermind, here's a pic of the series as an example of why My Early Life probably should NOT be considered a part. At least not aesthetically.

288Danspiral
Mar 9, 2023, 10:40 am

Here's a pic of the full series without it.

289Danspiral
Editado: Mar 9, 2023, 7:48 pm

Also heres a better pic of the classic fine editions.
Not mine this time. Found 'em ebay. Pretty sure image is pub use.
Also they're too expensive ( comparatively ) but are def on my long-term wish list. They're gorgeous.

290N11284
Editado: Mar 21, 2023, 4:52 am

>289 Danspiral:
They really are gorgeous, I have all of those with the exception of the Dante Paradiso. FS don't make them like that anymore.

291mr.philistine
Mar 20, 2023, 8:44 pm

>287 Danspiral: Yes, the design looks like a parody of the series.

292SinsenKrysset
Editado: Mar 30, 2023, 10:04 am

>263 SinsenKrysset:

Just to answer my own question about the bellicose series and the highland trilogy.
The dimensions do not match.