![]() ![]() ![]() I am enamored of the covers of Great Expectations and The Picture of Dorian Gray especially. I wouldn't pay retail for them, but I don't mind the ~$10 (US) each I spent on the copies I have from amazon. I can't be sure, since I try not to duplicate, but I would guess it's the same text but in a prettier package. The font seems to be the same size as the couple of paperback Penguin Classics I have. Nicer than a paperback certainly, but no illustrations, at least not in those that I own (Emma, Sense and Sensibility, Middlemarch, Great Expectations and Dorian Gray). >3 cpg: I have a couple of these (bought them purely for aesthetic value of the covers) and I'd consider them reading copies. I also still love the red Collector's Edition of "The Lord of the Rings" published by Houghton Mifflin. I've bought some for less than $20.00 and even found a few for $8.00 at a flea market once. You can get many of them online second-hand very reasonably. They are made from much better quality leather and almost all of them are illustrated. I will point out that after I discovered Easton Press, I began replacing the B&N books with theirs. Also, most of them are not illustrated, HOWEVER, there are 3 that I do highly recommend: "The Divine Comedy" (has an illustration on almost every page), "The Arabian Nights" (has special colored fonts and 2 page full-color illustrations), and "The Chronicles of Narnia" (has the original drawn illustrations and one of the most beautiful covers). I also started out collecting the B&N Leatherbound editions and currently own about 12 of them, however, the problem I had with them was that the print was usually so small and the books so large that it was hard to read from them and enjoy it (the Dickens collection is a massive volume). Oh, and the new Penguin Hardcover Classics look really lovely as well. If the other Barnes & Noble leatherbound classics are anything like my Austen, I would much prefer getting both Dracula and The Picture of Dorian Gray from that series rather than the FS editions, but that may be blasphemous to say out loud in this forum. I have seen that Bloomsbury have a lovely series of Margaret Atwood's novels, so I try to go to their site regularly to see what else they are publishing (and ponder whether or not I can afford any). The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster - Penguin Classcis Deluxe Edition (paperback, but that feels perfect for this particular edition, somehow) The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini - Bloomsbury (special edition hardcover) Seven Novels by Jane Austen - Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classics edition To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee - Harper Collins 50th Anniversary Edition (hardcover with slipcase) Life of Pi by Yann Martel - Canongate's illustrated edition (hardcover) In my library (humble as it is) some of my personal favourites are from the Folio Society, but I also have some other really lovely books that I would not exchange for the world: Lucky for me, I can thus justify getting the nicer editions! ![]() My budget does not allow me to go for the very upmarket publishers, but living in Sweden means that regular FS editions (~£20) cost about the same as the English mass market paperbacks they sell at my local bookshop. I would like to hear your thoughts on non-FS publishers that you might recommend. ![]()
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