Acquisitions (102): Abraham Lincoln

Kenneth P. Williams: Lincoln Finds a General: A Military Study of the Civil War (1949)

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Kenneth Powers Williams (1887-1958)

Kenneth P. Williams: Lincoln Finds a General (1949-1957)
[Jax Beach Books, Jacksonville Beach, Florida - 26/1-9/2/2024]:

Kenneth P. Williams. Lincoln Finds a General: A Military Study of the Civil War. 5 vols. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1949-1957.

• Vol. 1 (1949)
• Vol. 2 (1949)
• Vol. 3: Grant's First Year in the West (1952)
• Vol. 4: Iuka to Vicksburg (1956)
• Vol. 5: Prelude to Chattanooga (1957)

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Kenneth P. Williams: Lincoln Finds a General (5 vols: 1949-1959)

Lincolnophilia

They say that his only rivals are Napoleon and Jesus Christ - when it comes to the number of books that have been written about each of them, that is. Not that the book above is precisely about Abraham Lincoln (despite its title).

I spotted it in the Messines Bookshop in Featherston last time I was down rummaging through booktown. Unfortunately they only had four of the five volumes (including a duplicate of one of them). It seemed a bit quixotic to buy it under those circumstances, especially as I wasn't quite sure just how many volumes the complete work was supposed to include.

As it turns out, five is the correct number, despite the fact that Williams had only reached the end of 1863 by then. He died in 1958, with his purpose unachieved.

Library of America: The Civil War Told by Those Who Lived It (4 vols: 2011-2014)

Multi-volume works about the American civil war do seem to be a bit of an addiction of mine, as I mentioned in this post.

Bruce Catton: The Army of the Potomac Trilogy (3 vols: 1951-1953)

There are Bruce Catton and Shelby Foote's respective trilogies on the subject; Allan Nevins' 8-volume Ordeal of the Union; Carl Sandburg's six-volume life of Lincoln; not to mention Douglas Southall Freeman's four-volume life of Robert E. Lee - along with his Lee's Lieutenants trilogy. You can find a list of these and other items of American Civil War literature at the link here.

Bruce Catton: The Centennial History of the Civil War (3 vols: 1961-1965)

Allan Nevins: Ordeal of the Union (8 vols: 1947-1971)

Carl Sandburg: Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years / The War Years (6 vols: 1926 & 1939)

Douglas Southall Freeman: R. E. Lee: A Biography / Lee's Lieutenants (7 vols: 1934-35 / 1942-44)

I recall being told of one Civil War enthusiast who could be overheard making musket noises out of the side of his mouth as he perused yet another eyewitness account of some earth-shattering battle. I'm not like that. I'm afraid that I fall into that more sentimental school of readers who have to sniff back a tear or two when some more than usually sonorous utterance is quoted:

... on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.

"Then, thenceforward, and forever free" ... they don't come much better than that.

Library of Congress: Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), with his son Tad (1853-1871)

A good many of these inspiring quotes seem to come from that "myriad-minded man" (as Coleridge characterised Shakespeare), Abraham Lincoln. It's hard to avoid him when talking about that war. Grant and Lee were certainly, in their very different ways, great generals, but it's really Lincoln who continues to define it. In his way, he's a figure as influential as Julius Caesar or Napoleon, but without their tainted legacies of insurrection and political murder ...

Here are a few interesting books, some well-known, others more specialised, about various aspects of his life:

Allen C. Guelzo. Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates that Defined America. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008.

Doris Kearns Goodwin. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. 2005. Simon & Schuster Lincoln Library. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006.

Jim Bishop. The Day Lincoln Was Shot. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1955.

The last of these titles gives us the essential clue just why Lincoln has become such a Christ-like character in popular culture: his assassination just at the cusp of the Union triumph in the Civil War - and before the bitterness of Reconstruction had begun.

This particular drama has everything: prophetic dreams, a charismatic killer, and ... more resonant words: "Now he belongs to the ages," spoken by Edwin Stanton, his Secretary of War, an old enemy turned fervent supporter.

Gore Vidal: Lincoln (1984)

For a more subtle, albeit fictional, recreation of his character, you could do worse than Gore Vidal's historical novel Lincoln, part of his seven-volume "Chronicles of Empire" series.

Honoré Willsie Morrow: Lincoln (1930)

I'm afraid that I can't similarly recommend Honoré Morrow's rather outdated Great Captain, though it does give a certain insight into the strange world of Lincoln-worship as it existed in the century or so after his death.

It also offers an insight into the nature of Lincoln iconography in Hollywood cinema, from the sublime to the ridiculous: beginning with John Ford's brilliant Young Mr. Lincoln in 1939, and concluding with Steve Spielberg's almost equally impressive Lincoln some 70-odd years later - with amusing side-excursions such as Timur Bekmambetov's Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, based on Seth Grahame-Smith's novel of the same name.

Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)

Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)

Gore Vidal's Lincoln (TV miniseries, 1988)

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012)

Lincoln (2012)

Perhaps the best approach to the whole subject, though, remains the most traditional: reading the man's own words, commodiously collected and packaged by the Library of America for the Lincoln Bicentennial:

Lincoln, Abraham. Speeches and Writings 1832-1858: Speeches, Letters and Miscellaneous Writings / The Lincoln-Douglas Debates. Ed. Don E. Fehrenbacher. 1989. The Library of America, 45. The Bicentennial Edition. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2009.

Lincoln, Abraham. Speeches and Writings 1859-1865: Speeches, Letters and Miscellaneous Writings / Presidential Messages and Proclamations. Ed. Don E. Fehrenbacher. 1989. The Library of America, 46. The Bicentennial Edition. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2009.

Holzer, Harold, ed. The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now. The Library of America, 192s. The Bicentennial Edition. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2009.

However, if you can't quite face a commitment on that scale, there's always the book below, The Living Lincoln. It offers a good overview of his life, extracted from his speeches and other, more intimate, writings:

The Living Lincoln: The Man, His Mind, His Times, and the War He Fought, Reconstructed From His Own Writings. Ed. Paul M. Angle & Earl Schenk Miers. New Brunswick, N. J.: Rutgers University Press, 1955.

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Acquisitions (23): The Folio Society

Folio 50: Bibliography 1947-97 (1997)

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Mary Maclean Ross (1894-1990)

The Folio Society
(1947- )
[* = originally owned by Mary Maclean Ross]:

I've just put up a post about my grandmother's long love affair with the Folio Society of London over on The Imaginary Museum. I guess for her their catalogues constituted a kind of home away from home. In any case, her beautiful glass-fronted bookcases were filled with their books.

One of my grandmother's bookcases today

When it came time for Grandma to move into the Northbridge rest-home where she lived out her last years, she chose the unusual expedient of giving one each of her bookcases (contents included) to my father and my uncle. She rejected their idea of dividing up the books between them, claiming that it would cause too much bad blood, so each family ended up with approximately half of her collection! Maybe it wasn't such a bad idea after all.

I've marked with an asterisk all the ones which previously belonged to her (one of them, Surtees' Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities, must have been ordered as a present for my father, as it's signed by him instead of her).

The Folio Society today

1. Addison, Joseph, Sir Richard Steele, & Eustace Budgell. Sir Roger de Coverly. Ed. John Hampden. With Wood Engravings by Richard Shirley Smith. London: The Folio Society, 1967.


2. Altamirano, Ignacio Manuel. El Zarco the Bandit. ['El Zarco', 1885–1889]. 1901. Trans. Mary Allt. Wood Engravings by Zelma Blakeley. London: Folio Society, 1957.


3. Apollonius of Rhodes. The Voyage of Argo. Trans. E. V. Rieu. 1959. Rev. ed. 1972. Introduction by Lawrence Norfolk. Illustrations by Daniel Egnéus. London: The Folio Society, 2014.


4. Apuleius, Lucius. The Transformations of Lucius, Otherwise Known as The Golden Ass. Trans. Robert Graves. 1950. London: The Folio Society, 1960.


5. Auden, W. H. Collected Shorter Poems: 1927-1957. 1966. Introduction by Alexander McCall Smith. Illustrated by Brian Grimwood. 2006. London: The Folio Society, 2007.


6. Bage, Robert. Hermsprong: or, Man As He is Not. 1796. London: The Folio Society, 1960.


7. Banerji, Bibhutibhushan. Pather Panchali: Song of the Road.. 1929. Trans. T.W. Clark & Tarapada Mukherji. 1968. Lithographs by Janet Archer. London: The Folio Society, 1971.


8. Barber, Richard. Legends of King Arthur. 2000. Illustrated by Roman Pisarev. 3 vols. London: The Folio Society, 2001.
   1. Arthur
   2. Tristan
   3. The Holy Grail


9. Barber, Richard. British Myths and Legends. 1998. Illustrated by John Vernon Lord. 3 vols. London: The Folio Society, 2002.
   1. Marvels and Magic
   2. Heroes and Saints
   3. History and Romance


10. Barrow, Sir John. The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of HMS BOUNTY its Causes and Consequences. 1831. Ed. Captain Stephen W. Roskill. London: The Folio Society, 1976.


11. Beckford, William. Vathek. 1815. Trans. Herbert B. Grimsditch. 1929. Illustrated with Lithographs by Edward Bawden. London: The Folio Society, 1958.


12. Beevor, Antony & Artemis Cooper. Paris After the Liberation, 1944-1949. 1994. Rev. ed. 2007. London: The Folio Society, 2012.


13. Bierce, Ambrose. The Realm of the Unreal and Other Stories. ['The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce', vols. II, III & VIII of 12, 1909-12]. Introduction by Will Self. Illustrations by Nathan Sissons. London: The Folio Society, 2009.


14. Boethius. The Consolation of Philosophy. Trans. V. E. Watts. 1969. Preface by Brian Keenan. 1998. London: The Folio Society, 2000.


15. Briggs, Katharine M. Folk Tales of Britain: Narratives. 1970. Introduction by Philip Pullman. 3 vols. Illustrated by Hannah Firmin, Peter Firmin & Clare Melinsky. London: Folio Society, 2011.


16. Briggs, Katharine M. Folk Tales of Britain: Legends. 1971. Introduction by Kevin Crossley-Holland. 3 vols. Illustrated by Hannah Firmin, Peter Firmin & Clare Melinsky. London: Folio Society, 2011.


17. Brontë, Charlotte. Five Novelettes: Passing Events; Julia; Mina Laury; Henry Hastings; Caroline Vernon. Transcribed from the Original Manuscripts and Edited by Winifred Gérin. London: The Folio Press, 1971.


18. Burton, Richard F. The Source of the Nile. The Lake Regions of Central Africa: A Picture of Exploration. 1860. Introduction by Ian Curteis. London: The Folio Society, 1993.


19. Cellini, Benvenuto. The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini. 1728. Trans. George Bull. 1956. London: The Folio Society, 1966.


20. Chandler, Raymond. The Complete Novels. Introduction by Frank MacShane. 7 vols. London: The Folio Society, 1989.
    1. The Big Sleep (1939)
    2. Farewell My Lovely (1939)
    3. The High Window (1943)
    4. The Lady in the Lake (1944)
    5. The Little Sister (1949)
    6. The Long Goodbye (1953)
    7. Playback (1958)


21. Chekhov, Anton. The Island of Sakhalin. 1895. Trans. Luba & Michael Terpak. 1967. London: The Folio Society, 1989.


22. Chekhov, Anton. The Collected Stories. 1888-1903. Trans. Ronald Hingley. 1965-1971. 4 vols. Introduced by James Lasdun. Illustrated by Laura Carlin. London: The Folio Society, 2010.


23. Churchill, Winston S. The World Crisis. Introduction by Martin Gilbert. 2005. London: The Folio Society, 2007.
    1. 1911-1914 (1923)
    2. 1915 (1923)
    3. 1916-1918 (1927)
    4. The Aftermath (1929)
    5. The Eastern Front (1931)


24. Clare, John. Bird Poems. Introduction by Peter Levi. Wood-Engravings by Thomas Bewick. London: The Folio Society, 1980.


25. Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Selected Poems. Ed. Richard Holmes. 1996. Engravings by Miriam Macgregor. The Folio Poets. London: The Folio Society, 2003.


26. Colón, Don Fernando. The Life of the Admiral Christopher Columbus by His Son Ferdinand. Trans. Benjamin Keen. 1959. London: The Folio Society, 1960.


27. *Conrad, Joseph. Two Tales of the Congo: Heart of Darkness & An Outpost of Progress. Copper-Engravings by Dolf Rieser. London: The Folio Society. 1952.


28. Conrad, Joseph. Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard. 1904. Introduction by Richard Holmes. Lithographs by Paul Hogarth. London: The Folio Society, 1984.


29. *Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage. Ed. John T. Winterich. With Civil War Photographs. London: The Folio Society, 1951.


30. *Crébillon Fils. The Sofa: A Moral Tale. Trans. Bonamy Dobrée. Etchings by Robert Bonfils. London: Folio Society, 1951.


31. Creevey, Thomas. The Creevey Papers. 1903. Ed. John Gore. 1963. London: The Folio Society, 1970.


32. Crossley-Holland, Kevin, ed. Folk-tales of the British Isles. Wood-engravings by Hannah Firmin. London: The Folio Society, 1985.


33. Defoe, Daniel. The History and Remarkable Life of the Truly Honourable Colonel Jack. 1722. Wood Engravings by John Lawrence. London: The Folio Society, 1967.


34. Defoe, Daniel. A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain. 1724-26. Ed. G. D. H. Cole. 1974. 3 vols. Introduction by Pat Rogers. London: The Folio Society, 1983.


35. de la Mare, Walter. Ghost Stories. Lithographs by Barnett Freedman. 1956. London: The Folio Society, 1960.


36. De Quincey, Thomas. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. 1856. Illustrations Engraved on Wood by Blair Hughes-Stanton. London: The Foilo Society, 1948.


37. Dickens, Charles. My Early Times. Ed. Peter Rowland. London: The Folio Society, 1988.


38. Donne, John. The Complete English Poems. Ed. A. J. Smith. 1971 & 1996. Introduction by Andrew Motion. Engravings by Jane Lydbury. The Folio Poets. 2005. London: The Folio Society, 2006.


39. Faulkner, William. The Sound and the Fury. 1929. Ed. Noel Polk & Stephen M. Ross. 2012. London: The Folio Society, 2016.


40. Freile, Juan Rodríguez. The Conquest of New Granada. Trans. William C. Atkinson. Engravings by Harold Bennett. London: The Folio Society Ltd., 1961.


41. Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire. 1776-88; 1910. Ed. Betty Radice & Felipé Fernández-Armesto. 8 vols. London: Folio Society, 1983-90.
    1. The Turn of the Tide. Ed. & with an introduction by Betty Radice (1983)
    2. Constantine and the Roman Empire. Ed. & with an introduction by Betty Radice (1984)
    3. The Revival and Collapse of Paganism. Ed. & with an introduction by Betty Radice (1985)
    4. The End of the Western Empire. Ed. & with an introduction by Betty Radice (1986)
    5. Justinian and the Roman Law. Ed. & with an introduction by Felipe Fernández-Armesto (1987)
    6. Mohammed and the Rise of the Arabs. Ed. & with an introduction by Felipe Fernández-Armesto (1988)
    7. The Normans in Italy and the Crusades. Ed. & with an introduction by Felipe Fernández-Armesto (1989)
    8. The Fall of Constantinople and the Papacy in Rome. Ed. & with an introduction by Felipe Fernández-Armesto (1990)


42. *Gorky, Maxim. The Artamonovs. 1927. Trans. Alec Brown. Woodcuts by Peter Pendry. London: The Folio Society, 1955.


43. Graves, Robert. The Greek Myths. 2 vols. 1955. Rev. ed. 1958. Rev. ed. 1960. Introduction by Kenneth McLeish. Illustrations by Grahame Baker. 1996. London: The Folio Society, 2000.


44. Grimmelshausen, Johann von. Mother Courage. 1669. Trans. Walter Wallich. Lift-Ground Drawings by Fritz Wegner. London: The Folio Society, 1965.


45. Grossmith, George, & Weedon Grossmith. The Diary of a Nobody. 1892. Drawings by John Lawrence. 1969. London: The Folio Society, 1970.


46. Hardy, Thomas. Wessex Novels. London: The Folio Society, 1991.
    1. Under the Greenwood Tree, or The Mellstock Quire: A Rural Painting of the Dutch School. 1872. Wood Engravings by Peter Reddick. Introduction by Angela Thirlwell (1989)
    2. Far from the Madding Crowd. 1874. Wood Engravings by Peter Reddick. Introduction by Bel Mooney (1985)
    3. The Return of the Native. 1878. Wood Engravings by Peter Reddick. Introduction by R. M. (1971)
    4. The Trumpet-Major: John Loveday, A Soldier in the War with Buonaparte and Robert His Brother, A Tale. 1880. Wood Engravings by Peter Reddick. Introduction by Paul I. Webb (1990)
    5. The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Story of a Man of Character. 1886. Wood Engravings by Peter Reddick. Introduction by R. M. (1968)
    6. Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman, Faithfully Presented. 1891. Wood Engravings by Peter Reddick. Introduction by Elspeth Sandys (1988)


47. Hart, Kingsley, ed. Dove Cottage: The Wordsworths at Grasmere 1799-1803. Being The Grasmere Journal by Dorothy Wordsworth together with selections from the correspondence of William and Dorothy Wordsworth. Photographs by John Preston-Bell. London: The Folio Society, 1966.


48. Henderson, Philip, ed. The Complete Poems of Emily Brontë. London: The Folio Society, 1951.


49. Hibbert, Christopher. The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici. 1974. Foreword by Harold Acton. London: The Folio Society, 1998.


50. Hibbert, Christopher. Italian Cities. London: The Folio Society, 1997:
    1. Venice: The Biography of a City (1988)
    2. Rome: The Biography of a City (1985)
    3. Florence: The Biography of a City (1993)


51. Hochschild, Adam. King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa. 1998. Rev. ed. 2013. London: The Folio Society, 2017.


52. Hodgkin, Thomas. The Barbarian Invasions of the Roman Empire. ['Italy and her Invaders,' 1880-1899]. Introduced by Peter Heather. 8 vols. London: The Folio Society, 2000-3.
    1. The Visigothic Invasion. 1880. rev. ed. 1892 (2000)
    2. The Huns and the Vandals. 1880. rev. ed. 1892 (2000)
    3. The Ostrogoths, 476-535. 1885. rev. ed. 1896 (2001)
    4. The Imperial Restoration, 535-553. 1885. rev. ed. 1896 (2001)
    5. The Lombard Invasion, 553-600. 1895 (2002)
    6. The Lombard Kingdom, 600-744. 1895 (2002)
    7. The Frankish Invasion, 744-774. 1899 (2003)
    8. The Frankish Empire. 1899 (2003)


53. *Hogg, Thomas Jefferson. Memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff. 1813. Introduction by Sidney Scott. Engravings by Douglas Percy Bliss. London: The Folio Society, 1952.


54. Holinshed, Raphael. Chronicles. Introduction & Selection by Michael Wood. 1577 & 1587. London: Folio Society, 2012.


55. Holt, Thaddeus. The Deceivers: Allied Military Deception in the Second World War. 2004. Rev. ed. 2007. Introduction by Michael Howard. 2 vols. London: The Folio Society, 2008.


56. *Homer. The Odyssey. Translated in Selection by F. L. Lucas. Illustrations by John Buckland-Wright. London: The Folio Society, 1948.


57. Hudson, Roger, ed. Coleridge among the Lakes & Mountains: From His Notebooks, Letters and Poems 1794-1804. London: The Folio Society, 1991.


58. Hudson, Roger, ed. London: Portrait of a City. London: The Folio Society, 1998.


59. Hyde, Edward, Earl of Clarendon. The History of the Great Rebellion. Ed. Roger Lockyer. London: Oxford University Press / The Folio Society, 1967.


60. Ihara Saikaku. Five Japanese Love Stories (Koshoku gonin onna). Trans. William Theodore de Bary. London: The Folio Society, 1958.


61. Johnstone, the Chevalier de. A Memoir of the ’Forty-Five. 1820. Ed. Brian Rawson. London: Folio Society, 1958.


62. Kipling, Rudyard. The Collected Short Stories. Illustrated by Philip Bannister. 5 vols. London: The Folio Society, 2005.
    1. Plain Tales from the Hills (1888) / Soldiers Three and other stories (1888)
    2. Wee Willie Winkie and other stories (1888) / Life's Handicap (1891)
    3. Many Inventions (1893) / The Day's Work (1898)
    4. Traffics and Discoveries (1904) / Actions and Reactions (1909) / A Diversity of Creatures
    5. A Diversity of Creatures, cont. (1917) / Debits and Credits (1926) / Limits and Renewals (1932)


63. Lawrence, T. E. Crusader Castles. 1910. Ed. A. W. Lawrence. 2 vols. 1936. Introduction by Mark Bostridge. London: The Folio Society, 2010.


64. Lear, Edward. Complete Nonsense: Illustrated by the Author and Hand-Coloured for This Edition. Introduced by Quentin Blake. 1846, 1871, 1872, 1877, 1895. London: Folio Society, 1996.


65. Lewis, Bernard. The Assassins: A Radical Sect in Islam. 1967. Preface by the Author. 2003. London: The Folio Society, 2006.


66. Luo Guanzhong. Three Kingdoms: A Historical Novel. Trans. Moss Roberts. 1991. Introduction by Ma Jian. 4 vols. London: The Folio Society, 2013.


67. Magnusson, Magnus, ed. The Icelandic Sagas. Vol. 1 of 2. Illustrated by Simon Noyes. 1999. London: The Folio Society, 2000.
    1. Au∂un’s Saga, trans. Hermann Pálsson (1971)
    2. Grænlendiga Saga, trans. Magnus Magnusson & Hermann Pálsson (1965)
    3. Eirík’s Saga, trans. Magnus Magnusson & Hermann Pálsson (1965)
    4. The Tale of Thorstein Stangarhögg (Staff-Struck), trans. Hermann Pálsson (1971)
    5. Egil’s Saga, trans. Hermann Pálsson & Paul Edwards (1976)
    6. Hrafnkel’s Saga, trans. Hermann Pálsson (1971)
    7. Eyrbyggja Saga, trans. Hermann Pálsson & Paul Edwards (1972)
    8. Vopnfir∂inga Saga, trans. Magnus Magnusson (1999)
    9. Bandamanna Saga, trans. Hermann Pálsson (1975)
    10. Gunnlaug’s Saga, trans. Magnus Magnusson (1999)
    11. The Tale of Thi∂randi and Thórhall, trans. Magnus Magnusson (1999)
    12. Njál’s Saga, trans. Magnus Magnusson & Hermann Pálsson (1960)


68. Magnusson, Magnus, ed. The Icelandic Sagas. Vol. 2 of 2. Illustrated by John Vernon Lord. London: The Folio Society, 2002.
    1. Ívarr’s Tale, trans. Magnus Magnusson (1999)
    2. Gísli’s Saga, trans. Magnus Magnusson & Hermann Pálsson (1999)
    3. Ölkofri’s Tale, trans. Magnus Magnusson (1999)
    4. Laxdæla Saga, trans. Magnus Magnusson & Hermann Pálsson (1969)
    5. Gunnarr Thi∂randabani’s Tale, trans. Alan Boucher (1981)
    6. Fóstbrœ∂ra Saga, trans. Magnus Magnusson & Hermann Pálsson (1999)
    7. Hrei∂arr’s Tale, trans. Magnus Magnusson (1999)
    8. Vatnsdæla Saga, trans. Magnus Magnusson (1999)
    9. Hænsa-Thórir’s Saga, trans. Hermann Pálsson (1975)
    10. Grettir’s Saga, trans. Denton Fox & Hermann Pálsson (1974)


69. *Malory, Sir Thomas. The Romance of Lancelot & Guinevere, Taken from Sir Thomas Malory’s ‘Morte D’Arthur’. Illustrated by Lettice Sandford. London: The Folio Society, 1953.


70. Manucci, Niccolao. Memoirs of the Mogul Court. Trans. William Irvine. 1907. Ed. Michael Edwardes. London: The Folio Society, n.d. [1957].


71. Mardrus, Dr. J. C., & E. Powys Mathers, trans. The Arabian Nights: The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Rendered into English from the Literal and Complete French Translation of Dr. J. C. Mardrus by Powys Mathers. Introduction by Marina Warner. Set One: 3 vols. London: The Folio Society, 2003.
    • Vol. 1: with 8 colour illustrations by Kay Nielsen, 375 pp.
    • Vol. 2: with 8 colour illustrations by Grahame Baker, 424 pp.
    • Vol. 3: with 8 colour illustrations by Debra McFarlane, 424 pp.


72. Mardrus, Dr. J. C., & E. Powys Mathers, trans. The Arabian Nights: The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Rendered into English from the Literal and Complete French Translation of Dr. J. C. Mardrus by Powys Mathers. Introduction by Marina Warner. Set Two: 3 vols. London: The Folio Society, 2003.
    • Vol. 4: with 8 colour illustrations by Roman Pisarev, 424 pp.
    • Vol. 5: with 8 colour illustrations by Jane Ray, 431 pp.
    • Vol. 6: with 8 colour illustrations by Neil Packer, 448 pp.


73. Marvell, Andrew. Poems. Ed. H. M. Margoliouth. Introduction by C. V. Wedgwood. London: The Folio Society, 1964.


74. Mathers, E. Powys, trans. Arabian Love Tales: Being Romances Drawn from the Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Rendered into English from the Literal French Translation of Dr. J. C. Mardrus. Illustrated by Lettice Sandford. London: The Folio Society, 1949.


75. *Melville, Herman. Typee. 1846. Introduction by Robert Gibbings. Drawings by Jacques Boullaire. London: The Folio Society, 1950.


76. Melville, Herman. The Complete Shorter Fiction. Introduced by Jay Parini. Illustrated by Bill Bragg. London: The Folio Society, 2012.


77. Mürger, Henry. Vie de Bohème. 1851. Trans. Norman Cameron. Introduction by Michael Sadleir. Drawings by Dodie Masterman. London: The Folio Society, 1960.


78. Nesbit, E. The Adventures of the Treasure Seekers. Illustrated by C. Walter Hodges. 1947. London: The Folio Society, 1993.
    1. The Story of the Treasure Seekers: Being the Adventures of the Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune (1899)
    2. The Wouldbegoods: Being the Further Adventures of the Treasure Seekers (1901)
    3. The New Treasure Seekers (1904)


79. *The Newgate Calendar. Ed. Sir Norman Birkett. With Contemporary Engravings. 1951. London: The Folio Society, 1952.


80. The Newgate Calendars, ed. Lord Birkett. London: The Folio Society, 1993:
    1. The Newgate Calendar. With Contemporary Engravings (1951)
    2. The New Newgate Calendar (1960)


81. *Nievo, Ippolito. The Castle of Fratta. Trans. Lovett F. Edwards. Illustrated by Eric Fraser. London: The Folio Society, 1954.


82. Núñez de Pineda y Bascuñán, Francisco. The Happy Captive. ['Cautiverio feliz y razón individual de las guerras dilatadas del reino de Chile', 1673]. Trans. William C. Atkinson. Vinyl-cuts by John Lawrence. London: The Folio Society, 1977.


83. Orwell, George. Reportage. Ed. Peter Davison. 1987. 5 vols. London: The Folio Society, 1998.
    1. Down and Out in Paris and London. Introduced by Michael Foot (1933)
    2. The Road to Wigan Pier (1937)
    3. Homage to Catalonia (1938)
    4. Funny, But Not Vulgar, and Other Selected Essays and Journalism (1986)
    5. My Country Right or Left, and Other Selected Essays and Journalism (1986)


84. Orwell, George. Complete Novels. Ed. Peter Davison. 1998. 5 vols. London: The Folio Society, 2001.
    1. Burmese Days (1934)
    2. A Clergyman's Daughter (1935)
    3. Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936)
    4. Coming Up for Air (1939)
    5. Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)


85. Ovidius Naso, Publius. Ars Amatoria. Trans. B. P. Moore. Drawings by Victor Reinganum. London: The Folio Society, 1965.


86. Ovidius Naso, Publius. The Art of Love. Trans. James Michie. Paintings by Grahame Baker. 1993. London: The Folio Society, 2009.


87. Parker, Geoffrey, ed. & trans. At the Court of the Borgia: Being an Account of the Reign of Pope Alexander VI written by his Master of Ceremonies Johann Burchard. 1963. London: The Folio Society, 1991.


88. Pasternak, Boris. Doctor Zhivago. 1957. Trans. Nicolas Pasternak Slater. Illustrated by Leonid Pasternak. Introduction by Ann Pasternak Slater. 2019. 2 vols. London: The Folio Society, 2020.


89. Petronius Arbiter. Satyrica. Trans. Frederick Raphael. London: the Folio Society, 2003.


90. The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon. Trans. Ivan Morris. Introduction by Robin Duke. Illustrations by Jasper Deane. 1979. London: The Folio Society, 1980.


91. Pirenne, Henri. Mohammed & Charlemagne. 1937. Trans. Bernard Miall. 1939. Introduction by Averil Cameron. London: The Folio Society, 2013.


92. Pliny the Elder. Natural History. CE 77. Introduction by Anthony T. Grafton. 5 vols. London: The Folio Society, 2012.
    1. Preface; Books 1-7, trans. H. Rackham (1938 & 1942)
    2. Books 8-16, trans. H. Rackham (1983 & 1968)
    3. Books 17-23, trans. H. Rackham & W. H. S. Jones (1950 & 1969)
    4. Books 24-32, trans. W. H. S. Jones (1980 & 1963)
    5. Books 33-37; Index, trans. H. Rackham & D. E. Eichholz (1952 & 1962)


93. *Prévost, Abbé. The History of the Chevalier des Grieux and of Manon Lescaut. 1731. Trans. Helen Waddell. Essay by Edward Sackville-West. Wood Engravings by Valentin Le Campion. London: the Folio Society, 1950.


94. Procopius. The Secret History. c.550 CE. Trans. G. A. Williamson. 1966. Introduction by Philip Ziegler. London: The Folio Society, 1990.


95. The Complete Novels of Mrs Ann Radcliffe. Introductions by Devendra P. Varma. Wood Engravings by Sarah van Niekerk. 6 vols. London: The Folio Society, 1987.
    1. The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne: A Highland Story (1789)
    2. A Sicilian Romance (1790)
    3. The Romance of the Forest (1791)
    6. Gaston de Blondeville, or The Court of Henry the Third Keeping Festival in Arden (1826)


96. Scott, W. S., ed. & trans. The Trial of Joan of Arc: Being the Verbatim Report of the Proceedings from the Orleans Manuscript. London: The Folio Society, 1956.


97. Sherman, William T. From Atlanta to the Sea. 1875. Ed. B. H. Liddell Hart. 1961. London: The Folio Society, 1962.


98. Shi Nai’an. Outlaws of the Marsh: The Water Margin. Trans. J. H. Jackson. 1937. Introduction by Frances Wood. Illustrations from the Rong Yu Tang edition. 2 vols. London: The Folio Society, 2018.


99. Stape, J. H., ed. Conrad’s Congo. Preface by Adam Hochschild. London: The Folio Society, 2013.


100. Stendhal. The Charterhouse of Parma. 1839. Trans. C. K. Scott-Moncrieff. Wood-engravings by Zelma Blakely. London: The Folio Society, 1977.


101. Stephen, Leslie. Hours in a Library. 1874, 1876, 1879 & 1892. 3 vols. Introduction by Jonathan Steinberg. London: The Folio Society, 1991.


102. Sterne, Laurence. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. 1759-67. Ed. Graham Petrie. Introduction by Gilbert Phelps. Wood-engravings by John Lawrence. London: The Folio Society, 1970.


103. Surtees, Robert. Jorrocks’ Jaunts and Jollities. 1838. With Colour Plates by Henry Alken. London: The Folio Society, 1949.


104. *Swift, Jonathan. The Voyages of Lemuel Gulliver to Lilliput & Brobdingnag. Illustrated by Edward Bawden. London: The Folio Society, 1948.


105. *Symons, A. J. A. The Quest for Corvo: An Experiment in Biography. 1934. Introductions by Sir Norman Birkett & Sir Shane Leslie. London: The Folio Society, 1952.


106. Tey, Josephine. Brat Farrar. 1949. Introduction by Ruth Rendell. Illustrated by A. Richard Allen. London: The Folio Society, 2010.


107. *Tolstoy. Tales. Trans. Louise and Aylmer Maude ('The Raid' & "Two Old Men'), & Constance Garnett ('Two Hussars', 'Three Deaths', 'Polikushka' & 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich'). Illustrations by Elizabeth MacFadyen. London: The Folio Society, 1947.


108. Tolstoy, Leo. The Collected Stories. Trans. Louise & Aylmer Maude with J. D. Duff, Sam A. Carmack & David McDuff. Introduction by John Sutherland. Illustrated by Roman Pisarev. 3 vols. London: The Folio Society, 2007.


109. *Trollope, Anthony. The Parson’s Daughter and Other Stories. Engravings by Joan Hassall. Introduction by John Hampden. London: the Folio Society, 1949.


110. Tuchman, Barbara W. The Zimmermann Telegram. 1958. Introduction by Margaret MacMillan. London: The Folio Society, 2004.


111. Tucker, James. Ralph Rashleigh. Ed. Colin Roderick. 1952. Drawings by Nigel Lambourne. London: The Folio Society, 1977.


112. Twain, Mark. Collected Stories. 1929. Introduction by Robert McCrum. Illustrations by Roger Fereday. 3 vols. London: The Folio Society, 2011.


113. Waddell, Helen. Songs of the Wandering Scholars. 1927, 1929, 1933, 1976. Ed. Dame Felicitas Corrigan. Wood-engravings by Joan Freeman. London: The Folio Society, 1982.


114. *Walton, Izaak & Charles Cotton. The Compleat Angler, or The Contemplative Man's Recreation. 1653 & 1676. Illustrated by Lynton Lamb. London: The Folio Society, 1949.


115. *Ward, Ned. The London Spy. 1698-99, 1703. Ed. Kenneth Fenwick. Engravings by Hogarth and Others. London: The Folio Society, 1955.


116. *Warner, Oliver, ed. An Account of the Discovery of Tahiti: From the Journal of George Robertson, Master of H.M.S. Dolphin. Wood Engravings by Robert Gibbing. London: The Folio Society, 1955.


117. *Williams, Emlyn. Readings from Dickens. London: The Folio Society, 1953.


118. Woodforde, The Revd James. The Diary of a Country Parson. 1924-31. Ed. David Hughes. Engravings by Ian Stephens. London: The Folio Society, 1992.


119. Wu Ch’êng-Ên. Monkey. Trans. Arthur Waley. 1942. Illustrated by Duncan Grant. London: The Folio Society, 1968.


120. Zayas y Sotomayor, Maria de. A Shameful Revenge and Other Stories. 1637 & 1647. Trans. John Sturrock. Illustrated by Eric Fraser. London: The Folio Society, 1963.

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