Lot 37
Folio Society
Collection of deluxe limited editions
Auction: 16 June 2026 from 10:00 BST
Description
each work housed in original solander box together with accompanying commentary volume (except for Ulysses: apparently no commentary volume issued), titles comprise:
Beardsley, Aubrey (illustrator). The Birth, Life and Acts of King Arthur … The Text as Written by Sir Thomas Malory and Imprinted by William Caxton, 2003. One of 1,020 numbered copies, 4to, original black goatskin decorated in gilt with a design after Beardsley, all edges gilt, 8vo commentary volume (Thomas Malory, Le Morte D'arthur and Aubrey Beardsley) in pocket to inside front cover of solander box;
Joyce, James. Ulysses. Preface by Stephen James Joyce. Introductions by Jacques Aubert. With Etchings by Mimmo Paladino, 2004. One of 1,750 numbered copies, 8vo, original blue goatskin decorated with geometric designs in gilt and black;
Tolstoy, Leo. War and Peace. Translated and with an Introduction by Rosemary Edmonds. Drawings by Feliks Topolski, 2006. One of 1,750 numbered copies, 8vo, original reddish-brown goatskin decorated in gilt, black and white, commentary volume (What is Tolstoy?) in gilt card wrappers;
Cervantes, Miguel de. Don Quixote, 2005. One of 1,250 numbered copies, 8vo, original orange goatskin blocked with a design in gilt, black and red by Quentin Blake, illustrations by Quentin Blake, commentary volume (Reading Don Quixote) in red card wrappers;
Boccaccio, Giovanni. The Decameron, 2007. One of 1,750 copies, 8vo, original red goatskin elaborately decorated in gilt and green, commentary volume (The Happy Art of Narration) in original green card wrappers;
Trollope, Anthony. The Duke's Children. The Complete Text, Reconstructed and Edited, 2015. One of 1,980 numbered copies, 8vo, original green goatskin decorated in gilt, commentary volume in green cloth;
Shakespeare, William. Sonnets and Poems. Edited by Colin Burrow, 2009. One of 1,980 numbered copies, folio, original blue-green half goatskin; commentary volume in blue-green cloth, separated by a thick card spacer (8)