Pearson, Hesketh

The Smith of Smiths Being the Life, Wit and Humour of Sydney Smith

London, The Folio Society, 1977. Hardcover. 8vo. Gilt lettering to spine and decoration to boards. Scuffs to edges of boards; very good-, in very lightly shelfworn, very good slipcase. Introduction by Malcolm Muggeridge.

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Book number: 037001

Catalogue: Folio Society

Phelps, Gilbert

A Short History of English Literature

London, The Folio Society, 1962. Hardcover. pp. 159. 8vo. Black and white illustrations. Light shelfwear; very good in very good slipcase. .

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Book number: 065103

Catalogue: Folio Society

Power, Eileen

Medieval Women

London, The Folio Society, 2002. Hardcover. pp. xlv, 130. 8vo. Decorated beige boards with gilt lettering to spine. Colour illustrations. Light general shelfwear; very good in very good red slipcase. Edited by M. M. Postan. Foreword by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie. Introduced by Maxine Berg.

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Book number: 072918

Catalogue: Folio Society

Keywords: English History; Social Class; Gender Roles

Power, Eileen

Medieval People

London, The Folio Society, 1999. Hardcover. pp. xxvii, 253. 8vo. Decorated beige boards with gilt lettering to spine. Colour and black and white illustrations. Light general shelfwear; very good in very good blue slipcase. Introduced by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie.

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Book number: 072919

Catalogue: Folio Society

Keywords: English History; Social Class; Gender Roles; Medieval Jobs

Prebble, John

The Highland Clearances 'Since you have preferred sheep to men, let sheep defend you!'

London, The Folio Society, 2003. Hardcover. pp. 284. 8vo. Bound in decorated white and dark gray cloth. No discernible flaws; near fine in very good red slipcase. .

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Book number: 081005

Catalogue: Folio Society

Pym, Barbara

Excellent Women

London, The Folio Society, 2005. Hardcover. pp. 206. 8vo. Bound in light pink cloth with illustrations decorating cover and spine. Slight slant to spine. Brown slipcase slightly sunned; very good. .

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Book number: 080778

Catalogue: Folio Society

Keywords: Debra McFarlane

Pliny; Betty Radice, trans.

Pliny A Self Portrait in Letters

London, The Folio Society, 1978. Hardcover. pp. 240. 8vo. Bound in taupe cloth with gilt and red lettering and decoration to spine and front board. Publisher's topstain. Very good+ in good+ red slipcase split at back edge. .

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Book number: 065120

Catalogue: Folio Society

Reisz, Matthew [ed.]

A Booklover's Companion

London, The Folio Society, 2006. Hardcover. pp. 160. 8vo. Decorated front board with metallic lettering to spine. Colour illustrations. Faint general shelfwear; very good+. .

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Book number: 072415

Catalogue: Folio Society

Keywords: Book about Books; Reading; Joy of Books

Richardson, Joanna

The Life and Letters of John Keats

London, The Folio Society, 1981. Hardcover. pp. 170. Bound in quarter navy blue cloth over marbled boards with gilt lettering to spine. Black and white photographs and illustrations. No detectable flaws; near fine and housed in very good lightly rubbed cream slipcase. .

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Book number: 052104

Catalogue: Folio Society

Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme

The Physiology of Taste

London, The Folio Society, 2008. Hardcover. pp. xii, 362. 8vo. Bound in cloth with gilt and red lettering and decoration. Colour photographs. Light shelfwear; near fine in very good+ slipcase. .

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Book number: 081672

Catalogue: Folio Society

Heald, Tim [Selected and introduced by]

The Best After-Dinner Stories

London, The Folio Society, 2007. Sixth printing. Hardcover. pp. 268. 8vo. Bound in full white illustrated buckram. Black and white illustrations. Light shelfwear; very good in lightly shelfworn, very good slipcase. Ill.: Cox, Paul. With illustrations by Paul Cox.

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Book number: 023043

Catalogue: Folio Society

Keywords: Cox, Paul

Latham, Robert (Selected and Ed.)

The Shorter Pepys

London, The Folio Society, 1985. Hardcover. pp. xlix,1096. Royal 8vo. Bound in navy cloth with gilt decoration to front board, and red spine label with gilt lettering. Black and white illustrations. Lightest shelfwear; very good in very good+ slipcase. from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, a new and complete transcription, edited by Robert Latham and William Matthews.

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Book number: 065096

Catalogue: Folio Society

Sellar, Walter Carruthers; Robert Julian Yeatmann

1066 and All That A Memorable History of England

London, The Folio Society, 1992. Hardcover. pp. xxxiv, 116. Small 8vo. Deccorative brown boards with speckled page edges. Black and white illustrations. No detectable flaws; near fine in lightly rubbed very good brown slipcase. Ill.: John Reynolds. Introduction by Ned Sherrin.

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Book number: 046674

Catalogue: Folio Society

Keywords: John Reynolds

Shakespeare, William

King Henry IV [Part One]

London, The Folio Society, 1965. Hardcover. pp. 104. 8vo. Bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and gilt decoration to front boards. Topstain, colour illustrations and frontspiece. Light shelf wear to extremities, small ink inscription to endpaper, binding tight and sound, very good. .

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Book number: 031664

Catalogue: Folio Society

Shakespeare, William

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

London, The Folio Society, 1964. Hardcover. pp. 134. 8vo. Bound in maroon cloth with gilt and black lettering and decoration to spine and front board. Black and white illustrations. Light shelfwear, scuffing to boards along bottom edge; else very good in good+ slipcase, showing minor spotting and splitting to edges. With an Introduction by Richard Burton. Designs by Roger Furse.

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Book number: 072046

Catalogue: Folio Society

Keywords: English Drama; Hamlet; Ghost; Play within a Play