Folio Society from Capricorn Books

London: Folio Society, 2002. 244 pp, 252 pp, 232 pp - 3 volumes, 9" H, bound in blocked printed parchment (colour illustrations on front boards), gilt lettering on spines. Volumes 1 & 3 have map endpapers, all three volumes have colour and b&w plates. Red slipcase with gilt titling on front panel. Volume 1 contents: Preface; Acknowledgements; Prologue; Troyes: 1250;… Read more about this item

London: Folio Society, 1998. 510 pp, large 8vo (9" H) - quarter maroon buckram series binding, bright pink paper boards with border in maroon, bright pink endpapers, maroon slipcase. B&w illustrations. "The central concern of (this book) is not so much the question set out in the title - important though that question may be in keeping the… Read more about this item

London: Folio Society, 2010. 212 pp, large 8vo (9" H). Dark brown cloth spine with gold lettering, black illustration of Dickens' Swiss Chalet on the mid brown paper covered front and rear covers. Map endpapers, b&w interior illustrations. Dark brown slipcase. Chapter headings: Crossing the Channel (July 1837); The First Visit to Italy (1844-45); Genoa (1844);… Read more about this item

London: Folio Society, 2012. 320 pp, large 8vo (9 7/16" H), maroon cloth blocked in gilt with design by Neil Gower - in slipcase. Pictorial endpapers, b&w and colour illustrations. Chapter headings: London; The Houses; Interiors; Gardens, Parks and Open Spaces; Communications; Medicine and Dentistry; Clothes, Jewellery, Cosmetics, Hairdressing, Washing and So On; Housework, Laundry and Shopping; Cooking,… Read more about this item

London: Folio Society, 1997. 423 pp, 8vo (8" H) - quarter blue buckram with paper sides marbled by Anne Muir, endpapers and top edge of textblock dark green, in dark green slipcase. B&w illustrations. "Many of the sketches which form 'Our Village' were first published in various periodicals. They were first published in book form under the title 'Our Village'… Read more about this item

London: Folio Society, 1998. 443 pp, 8vo (8" H). Quarter teale blue buckram, Ann Muir marbled paper boards; maroon endpapers, maroon slipcase. B&w illustrations by Miriam Macgregor + fold-out genealogical table. "Thomas Turner's diary covers a little over eleven years in the life of a man who kept a shop in the Sussex village of East Hoathly - a… Read more about this item

London: Folio Society, 1994. 326 pp, large 8vo (9 3/8" H) - mustard coloured cloth with wraparound illustration by Edward Bawden, in plain cream coloured slipcase. Map endpapers, b&w photographs, drawings. Slight small dye marks and a small corner clip at the top edge of the rear pastedown, faint soft crease at the bottom corner of page 223. Slipcase… Read more about this item

London: Folio Society, 2001. 214 pp, large 8vo (9 7/16" H) - full dark blue cloth blocked in silver and red/brown with a design by David Rooney; light blue endleaves - blue/black slipcase. B&w photographs, maps. "This book tells the (true) story of what is remembered in Great Britain as a tremendous jape, yet is recalled in Crete - as… Read more about this item

London: Folio Society, 1997. 288 pp, 8vo (8 15/16" H). Quarter black cloth, white paper boards with a repeat pattern in black by Brockway; grey-green endpapers, grey-green slipcase. "There are 16 wood-engravings printed in the text, one being used on the title-page. This was one of the most successful books of the period, with the typography, binding and illustrations… Read more about this item