Complete list of books produced by the Folio Society

There are currently several lists of Folio Society books available on the FSD wiki at:-
https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/Groups:Folio_Society_Devotees#Lists_of_F...
- There is a very detailed downloadable Excel pdf file produced by rdurie that covers all FS books from 1947-2010, with an addendum covering 2011 and 2012.
- Ardis books produce a detailed catalogue of most FS books (including many of those that they do not stock)
- hcbooksonline stock a large number of FS books which they catalogue
- There is a very small but growing list of books in the “Folio Archive” illustrated book reviews

Virtually all prospectuses and catalogues are also available for download from the wiki at:-
https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/Groups:Folio_Society_Devotees#Folio_Soci...

As the Folio Society shows no sign of producing a Folio 70 bibliography, and there is no complete list of the almost 2500 books published by the FS since 1947, I have attempted to create one as a separate wiki. The books produced in the earlier years were easy to list as there are numerous reliable sources, but the list of books produced in the last few years was more difficult, as not all appeared in catalogues.

The list has been created, and added to a new wiki at:-
https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/Groups:BOOKS_PUBLISHED_BY_THE_FOLIO_SOCI...

The book list is complete, up to July 2017, but the site is still under construction as I complete the laborious task of formatting.

Authors are missing from most book names, as adding these would take many more hours of work. I may slowly add them over time, but anyone is welcome to add them (or other details) as they see fit (provided they are consistent in their formatting so no correction or re-formatting is required).

I would welcome any suggestions, additions or corrections to the list.

Warwick, you are Charles Ede.

The Venerable Ede, natch.

I was beginning to think Warwick that you had gone into retirement to allow you such time towards an endeavour of such magnitude, and then, as I lie here with sore throat, rasping cough, headache, shivers, high temperature, nausea and back pain, I remind myself that you wouldn't possibly abandon your colleagues in the midst of the influenza epidemic ravaging our homeland. :-)

>1 wcarter: Thanks a million Warwick! Another great resource to access!

Excellent, Warwick. Thank you.

Really wonderful work Warwick! One thing caught my eye during a quick browse: the specially bound standard editions of the early 90's (Peter Pan, Brideshead Revisited, etc.) are listed as full leather. Though I don't own any, weren't those quarter leather with marbled paper boards?

>1 wcarter: I would welcome any suggestions Impressive task, Warwick. I've always been puzzled by tables in the LT wiki, with their frames and void top line. I've had a look at it and tried to change the syntax for 1947 and 1948. What's your opinion? I find it more legible, but it's a matter of taste. Obviously, it means a lot of syntax changes for each table. I can do this by and by if you ask me to do it. But is it really worthwhile?

Another point: isn't it strange that there is now a new wiki for the new group BOOKS_PUBLISHED_etc? Shouldn't this list be in another place within the FSD wiki, in the same way the FSD FAQ page is implemented in Folio_Society_Devotees/FAQ?

Edited PS: As I understand that this list is destined to be completed with at least authors' names, and perhaps other info such as number of pages, etc., I finally wonder if a simple list for each year (with a bullet for each entry) wouldn't be clearer than a table...

I'm a bit doubtful about showing sales of individual antique pages as publications in a particular year. FS certainly went in for this invidious trade, buying books at auction then tearing them apart to mount each page separately for customers to display on a wall to blazon forth their good taste while the relic died in the midday sun. It was an ongoing process as antique books became available, not confined to a particular year, and could hardly be described as publishing in the traditional sense. There was a separate catalogue for art, including also prints by Folio artists, for which one had to apply, though the catalogue was advertised in the magazine and prospectus. The same was true of the LP albums produced as a sideline by FS, though these sometimes found their way into sales promotions. I seem to recall that the "art" business was still around in the early 90s, though you were referred to a separate website under a different name.

Thank you all for your opinions and suggestions, both private and public.
What does everyone think about the format?
Do you prefer the simpler boxes with the single line around them as modified by >8 Pepys:, or the double line. Compare the double entries for 1947 and 1948.
Or is a straight list better, without any box around the titles, as displayed further down the list from 1976 onwards? This would make a plain and simple, but very long list.
Opinions please.

Anyone who wants to add authors or other details to the list is welcome to do so.

>7 kronnevik:
You are correct, they are quarter leather, not full. Will be corrected.

Warwick, you are a superstar!

There should be a way to quickly generate Title/Author/Year data into a Wiki table, but converting from the provided PDFs to excel didn't leave the data in much shape.

Could anyone pass on the raw excel data for the list of FS titles?

I would definitely prefer a plain list: I edited the table for 1948 and the list for 1951, just to see how it would look like if more info were added to each entry. (We should keep in mind that it could happen that more info is added.)

BTW, from what I saw for these two years, it seems that there are many mistakes, with double entries, etc. So it means a lot of editions and corrections will be necessary nevertheless...

>14 Pepys:
Thanks for your help and advice. Please correct as much as you see fit. The information you have entered for the few books you have done, is superb.

This is an open resource that anyone can edit with more accurate information over time. Page numbers, translators, dimensions etc. can all be added in due course. The possibilities are limited only by the amount of time available to those willing to add these details.

I am coming towards the idea of a plain list so that as many details as possible can be added, the list can be easily copied if needed, and reformatting is not required.

I would prefer it if italics were not used for titles as it makes it more difficult for the novice to add details, and leads to inconsistencies in the format. I have limited italics to indicate special series such as Letterpress Shakespeare and Folio Miniatures.

I edited again 1947, 1948, and 1949, with:
- 1947: a blue-grey square before each entry, and title in italic
- 1948: d°, with title in roman
- 1949: a black circle before each entry, and title in italic
Which one would you prefer? I believe that italics, besides being recommended for titles by the Oxford rules, makes the list more legible, without being too difficult to understand for a novice (''text between two double single quotes'').

I stop here for the moment, before knowing your opinions.

>15 wcarter: I would prefer it if italics were not used for titles

I'm with you on that. The less formatting, the better.

Edited for typo.

Francois,
I agree that the italics follow the Oxford rules, but it would mean manually changing nearly 2500 entries to italic titles. That is a task that I (and I doubt you) would want to undertake!
I think the best option is the second one with the blue-grey dot and the entry all in Roman, as the blue-grey square is simpler to insert than the black dot and looks just as good. I think the entire list needs to be slowly edited into this format, without any box around the entries.
Thanks for your input.

Okay, what does everyone think about moving the wiki from LibraryThing to Wikia? Turns out the LibraryThing implementation has pretty serious limitations in terms of markup and styling (many pseudo-HTML wiki elements don't work, and CSS seems to be absent completely).

For example, I cleaned up the data from the PDFs (still not perfect, but suitable for a proof of concept) and added them to a table that is sortable by year, title, author and edition. This isn't possible in LibraryThing. You can access the page here: http://fsd.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Folio_Society_Titles

The rest of the content of the FSD wiki is directly reproducible, e.g. a few sections from the homepage: http://fsd.wikia.com/wiki/Folio_Society_Devotees_Wiki, so no work done so far would be lost.

Certainly don't want to be stepping on anyone's toes, but this could allow even greater functionality to highlight all information FS.

>19 Rodomontade: With a disclaimer that I haven't ever contributed any content to the FSD wiki, nor am I likely to, it seems to me that there are clearly some advantages with the Wikia platform and I have to say that the output looks much nicer, but I do have concerns. These platforms which appear for sharing content could disappear at any time, start charging and/or bombard users with highly irritating advertising (some well-known photo-sharing sites, anyone?). I like the idea of keeping all our (as in the generic FSD group) content in one place in an advertising-free zone.

>20 HuxleyTheCat: Agree completely, and while Wikia is likely to outlast LibraryThing itself, I didn't even realise there was advertising because my adblockers stop them displaying. Turned it off for a second and... urgh.

The option is there, but really any Wiki software will do — they all use the same syntax. LibraryThing is just its typically janky self, where most of what could make the wiki really robust and user-friendly is missing.

Do any of these lists include original sale price? I've poked around a bit, and the ones I've looked at didn't.

My main goal is to find out the original sale price of Churchill's Second World War series.

>23 St._Troy:
Normally you'd find the price in the year of publication prospectus. Unfortunately, I believe Churchill doesn't appear there for 2000, presumably having been given a brochure of his own which hasn't been uploaded.

>23 St._Troy: My main goal is to find out the original sale price of Churchill's Second World War series.

The six-volume set was £195 on publication.

ETA Ref - A Folio Society Handbook by Brian Codling.

I go to bed, get up, go to work, come home and open FSD - and find that lots of people have done lots of work on updating and adding information to the FS Book List.
Marvelous work everyone!
I worked on this project for months before loading it up to a wiki, formatting it, and then making its presence known.
The additions by FSD members is exactly what I hoped would happen, and with the input from many FSD members, multiple additions, corrections and alterations, hopefully over time this will become THE definitive list of Folio Society publications.
The list will never be complete as the FS keeps adding new books, and new information becomes available, but the initial construction of the site is now complete, and it is a resource that all lovers of FS books can now access.
Access links to the book list are at the top of this talk topic.
Everyone please keep adding information, while following the guidance at the start of the list.

Excellent work by everybody involved. A very helpful list! Thanks.

>25 bookfair_e: "The six-volume set was £195 on publication."

Thanks! At last.

All the books in the Autumn 2017 FS collection have now been added to the Complete List of books Published by the Folio Society at:-
http://www.librarything.com/wiki/index.php/Groups:BOOKS_PUBLISHED_BY_THE_FOLIO_S...
Many thanks to all those who have been adding extra details about books to the list.
All FSD members are encouraged to add details about the FS books in their collection to the list.

If you are unsure how to add book details, merely follow these instructions:-
- Go to the Book list at http://www.librarything.com/wiki/index.php/Groups:BOOKS_PUBLISHED_BY_THE_FOLIO_S...
- Go to the relevant year of publication for the book you want to enter, then click on (edit) to the right side of the screen beside the year.
- A box will appear in which you can type the additional book details that you want to add.
- When finished click on "Save Page" at bottom left of screen.
- A message saying "Oops, that didn't work" will appear the first time you do any editing. THIS IS NORMAL. Merely click on "Save Page" again and it will work.

Thank you again to all who have added more details. Please keep up the good work to make this THE definitive FS book list.

An enormous amount of detail has been added to this list in the last few weeks, thanks to the input of numerous FSD members.
Please list any errors or omissions on this thread.
The complete list of FS books can be found at:-
http://www.librarything.com/wiki/index.php/Groups:BOOKS_PUBLISHED_BY_THE_FOLIO_S...

Thanks a ton for posting this. I wound up at Librarything searching for a complete listing to track down older history and mythology books they've put out.

I wrote to FS a few months ago, asking whether there would be a Folio 70, and was told in a very nice reply that there would be.

G.

Thank you Warwick, this is indeed an achievement that we are all grateful that you’ve been working on. I think it would be great to going forward to include the original prices, adding the GBP prices, original launch prices, and shipping if that is okay. I’ll do some editing while I get the time

>34 EclecticIndulgence: I was told that too once and then others were told many times that there would not be.

We've had a few "maybe"s as well.

Thanks to the assistance of Glenn (folio_books) a huge amount on information has been added to the Complete List of FS Books at :-
http://www.librarything.com/wiki/index.php/Groups:BOOKS_PUBLISHED_BY_THE_FOLIO_S...
More than 3000 people have already viewed the list, and 95% of entries have useful information added.
It is sometimes possible to copy/paste, but most information has to be typed in. As a result, there will be errors and omissions. Please check your own FS collection against the list, and if you do find any errors or omissions, or have extra information to add to an entry, add it in yourself or post it on this thread and I will add it to the list. Once the back-list is complete, it will merely be a matter of adding new editions as they are published.
There are other list of FS books on the net, but none are anywhere near complete. The aim is, with your help, to make this THE definitive list of FS books.

Six months after starting this project, and two months since the web page went live, the Complete List of Folio Society Books is now effectively finished.
Glenn (folio_books) has assisted me greatly in this project.
There is reasonable information about every book, but it is always possible to add more and more information. By consulting the list of prospectuses and catalogues on the FSD wiki (http://www.librarything.com/wiki/index.php/Groups:Folio_Society_Devotees#Folio_Society_Prospectuses_and_Catalogues) more information and the contemporary advertising about many books can be obtained.
The List site has been visited more than 4000 times, and at present there are about 80-100 visits a day.
Most of the information prior to 2007 has been transcribed from Folio 60, but of the 2295 books listed, 818 (35% of the total) of them have been published since Folio 60 was printed. Information for these books has been gleaned from a wide range of sources, as more than half no longer show on the FS website.
The FS continues to publish 70-80 books a year, and I will continue to add these to the list as they are released.
In a venture such as this, there will inevitably be errors and omissions. Please note these or any other comments on this FSD thread.

>37 wcarter:

Great work Warwick and Glenn.

What's the running total of that list?

I cannot pass this thread without showing my appreciation of the work put in by you guys. This list is to be enjoyed with a cup of coffee and a snus. I will dive in right away ..

I had to look up what a "snus" was. Learn something every day!

Thank you very much, this is a wonderful resource for FS aficionados!

Please note that the URL for this list has changed by LT due to vandalism of the original wiki site.
The complete list of FS books can now be found at:-
https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/Groups:BOOKS_PUBLISHED_BY_THE_FOLIO_SOCI...

>43 wcarter: From when was the backup? I added The Tale of Genji on monday since I couldn't find it in the list and it seems to be missing again.

>44 c_schelle:
Backup was from 4 November. I have been madly trying to identify what I have added and has been lost in the last month.
Thanks for detecting that Tales of Genji was missing (I am actually reading it at the moment - beautifully presented book).
I will add it in again.
Anyone who notices any other missing books please list them here.

Thanks a lot wcarter and folio_books. Appreciate it.

>45 wcarter: and folio_books Thanks for the good work!

>45 wcarter: Not missing, but with a double entry: In 1995 there are two entries for Don Quixote.

Would you prefer people to correct the entries themselves (and stating the change here) or posting them here and you correct them?

>48 c_schelle:
Thanks for finding that.
As for corrections, either option is acceptable.

I just stumbled upon this on eBay:
https://www.ebay.de/itm/132439842929?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&fromMakeT...

I couldn't find any information about this edition in the LE part of the Wiki or the complete list of published books. Does this not count as a FS book?

>50 c_schelle:

Yes, it seems to belong in the LE list quite as much as do the Oxford Thesaurus and Oxford Classical Dictionary. According to Folio 60, the 1500 copies bound by Smith Settle were available to members from late 2003, and further unlimited issues followed.

>50 c_schelle:

I have this, and the matching Thesaurus. The bindings are beautiful and of excellent quality. The contents, of course, are the standard Oxford editions. I would also point out that there has been a new edition of the Shorter Oxford Dictionary since this one was issued.

>50 c_schelle:
Well picked!
This book is missing from both the Complete List and the list of LEs on the FSD wiki.
I am travelling, but will correct this when I return home on the weekend.

It seems that I found two other things:
- 1969 ist says the price of the Decameron by Boccaccio is stated as £¡6, which seems to be a typo
- the link to the FSD wiki at the end of the page links to the old wiki page and not the new one

>54 c_schelle:
- The 1969 Decameron price is correct. There was a later Decameron LE that was much more expensive. Things were cheaper in the 60s.
- I will fix the link. Thanks.

>55 wcarter: I thought that it was chaper back then, but on my monitor the price looks like an i followed by 6 instead of a 1.

>56 c_schelle:

I can confirm £16. I wanted it very badly at the time but it was way beyond my budget. The Decameron LE is a poor imitation of the letterpress original, but leather boards were added to make it look classy. To confuse the issue for those who don't know, the edition to have is the leatherbound edition of the original issue, sumptuously bound in cream leather. Gorgeous.

>56 c_schelle:
You are right, it is an i not a 1.
Both problems now corrected.
Thanks.
>57 folio_books: is correct about the 1969 Decameron, it is superb.

>58 wcarter: No problem. I have to thank you and folio_books for the amazing list. I use it quite a lot, as I don't own the Folio 60.

>57 folio_books: I've seen pictures of this edition and it really looks gorgeous. There seems to be something special about cream leather binding. Having received my first two Letterpress books I can say that they won't be my last.

>59 c_schelle:

The thing to remember is that in those days (1947 through the seventies) very nearly all Folio books were printed by letterpress. They boasted about it in every prospectus.

I had the chance to buy the cream leather Decameron for £25 a year or so ago but the leather looked as if it was deteriorating. I hung on and got one not long after for £75 which I was still pleased about, given some people have been paying £200 and more.

The Complete List of Folio Society Books (here) is being regularly updated with the latest releases, including the three from East Asia published yesterday.

Links to the Prospectus or Catalogue(s) for each year have now been added to the Complete List of FS Books here.
Additional information about many of the books is also being slowly added.

Glenn (folio_books) and I have gradually and laboriously filled in the full details regarding books listed in the Complete List of FS Books here.
1947 to 1966, and 1997 to 2018 are now complete. The missing years will be slowly completed in the next few months.
Please let us know if you find any inaccuracies, typos or missing books.

>63 wcarter: Thank you for all the time you devoted on this. You sirs are doing us a great service!

>63 wcarter:
Thank you both for all of your work.

>63 wcarter: 1947 to 1966, and 1997 to 2018 are now complete.

Latest update: 1947 to 1989 complete. The last lap beckons - 1990-1996. And that's the end. Unless Folio decide to publish any more books, of course ...

>66 folio_books: "Unless Folio decide to publish any more books, of course" Oh the horror! Think of the children! Please no!

Great work you guys, this list is an amazing resource for FSDs. Such a huge amount of information you've managed to gather, work out and publish. Before you know it, FS will no longer publish the promised FS70 online, but just point in the direction of your work and wish us all many a happy hour browsing through.

Thanks to a lot of input from Gelnn (folio_books), the list is now effectively complete, with extensive details about every Folio Society book ever published.
Suggestions for further improvement are always welcome.
Every FSD member should bookmark the list website at:-
https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/Groups:BOOKS_PUBLISHED_BY_THE_FOLIO_SOCI...

>68 wcarter: Fantastic! Thank you both!

Many thanks to wcarter and folio_books and very much appreciated!

A tremendous and well appreciated effort. You have created something of great value to this community!

A great resource, and much appreciated

I add my congratulations and thanks to wcarter and folio_books for their selfless hard work and contribution.

Fantastic resource! Thank you so much for your efforts.

I looked through the series topic and there it is mentioned that Andrew Roberts wrote a fifth follow up part to the History of the English peoples by Churchill. This book has not been listed: Ardis gives the date to be 2006, which I could not corroborate with the prospectus of said year or following years. But he does have a copy for sale, so the date is most likely correct.

>76 NLNils:

This book is an A-lister: Appendix A of Folio 60 lists books by other publishers which were offered to FS members in a special FS binding or slipcase. This book is A44, by Weidenfeld and Nicholson, and did indeed appear in 1976.

>76 NLNils:
As >77 affle: has pointed out, this is an A list publication.
The Complete List does not include these books, as they are difficult to identify as Folio Society books. There is a comment in the other publications section at the end of the list (this link)
https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/Groups:BOOKS_PUBLISHED_BY_THE_FOLIO_SOCI...
that covers these rather confusing books.
They are included in an Appendix to Folio 60, but because they have no mention of the FS in or on the books, they have not been included in The Complete List.
Hope that explains the situation.

>77 affle: >78 wcarter: Thank you both for the clarification. I reread the Books Published Wiki and it indeed says so at the very end. I own Folio 60, so I should probably make use of it more. Said sheepishly...

Many thanks for the list!

Thank you for the wonderful complete list of Society books. I would like to suggest that the original MSRP be added next to each book, as I often wonder how much the books were originally priced at when I find them for sale in second-hand shops. It would be much faster to reference the comprehensive list than to have to download the prospectus and look through it, especially if you're standing in a shop.

>81 adamsw216:
The prices of FS books vary from area to area of the planet. The FS has five pricing areas - UK, USA, Canada, Australia and Rest of World. The prices of books cannot be directly converted as exchange rates vary with time, and prices in areas outside the UK tend to be higher when converted at contemporary exchange rates. The original book prices are a very poor guide to current prices for FS books. The Original prices are listed in the prospectuses and catalogues on the FSD wiki if you wish to peruse these.

>81 adamsw216: >82 wcarter:
I would also add that the price of the book on release often has no bearing on the price we actually pay. I have bought many books from the FS at very steep discounts of the advertised price on launch.
Back in the good old days of the membership model I got many books for free, either as part of a sale or as renewal offers. A great example of this is Gomenghast Trilogy for which I only paid shipping.

>83 N11284:. I remember the old sales they used to run from the mail catalogs where you bought two things at regular price and then got that much again for free. I used to save the expensive things I wanted for that sale. I would get the two most expensive things from my wishlist and then mix others to try and line up to the exact total. I ended up trying many books I might not otherwise have gotten just to maximize the value of the sale.

It always interest me to see previous Folio society sales threads and the deals that was offered at that time. Few of the books that I want to buy, were given free as a new member gift.

>82 wcarter:
Yes, I understand that prices vary over time and by region. I was merely suggesting that the price in the original prospectus be listed in the text so that it is easily searchable. Sometimes books released in one particular year do not show up until the following year's prospectus making searching through the image scans rather tedious. Of course these prices do not reflect current market prices as there are a vast amount of variables, but I think it can be a useful metric for gaining a general idea of the original cost at the time as well as providing an insight into what implications the current secondhand market value has. I'd be happy to work on adding these prices to the list myself, if this is acceptable.

>86 adamsw216:
Thanks for your offer, but personally I am not in favour of this for standard editions (the prices for LEs fluctuate less and are often noted in the list) for the reasons listed in >82 wcarter: and >83 N11284: above.

I wonder if I can ask what might be a very stupid question. (I specialise in these.) Is there a way of downloading the complete list into an excel spreadsheet? I can copy and paste the text from the website into excel - but that puts all the information into one cell per book, whereas I would ideally like separate columns for title and author (and maybe other data points if possible). I can of course manipulate it myself, but I can't help but think this may not be necessary . . . and if I can avoid doing something unnecessary 2500x then all the better... Whether or not it is possible, I take this opportunity to express my appreciation of the time taken by numerous people to gather the information together.

>88 jranstead: As far as I know there is no such thing. Scraping the info from the page is not an easy feat either as the entries are not always consistent (as in the order (or existence) of fields).

>88 jranstead:
Depending on how the info gets dumped into the single Excel cell you might be able to separate it into columns using clever combinations of the left, right, length, find and other functions. Find the first comma, grab the text to the left of it, then in the next column grab the text from the right minus the number of characters in the last column sort of thing. That would mean a bit of ”programming”, but only once.

(Post >89 bacchus.: isn’t hope-inspiring, though.)

>88 jranstead: post 1 here does mention a "detailed downloadable Excel pdf file produced by rdurie"—but I can't actually find a link to that on the wiki page. Maybe >1 wcarter: can shed light on that?

Excel printed to pdf isn't exactly the most accessible structured format, but it would probably be easier to extract info from than the wiki page directly.

>91 abysswalker:
I remember that the lists by rdurie were linked to on the wiki but the link has disappeared, and I did not notice when it was removed. I did not remove it.
Possibly a search of rdurie’s talk thread posts from that era may reveal a link.

I appreciate the answers (although I suspect the programming may be beyond me unfortunately). Although it seems that the answer is ‘no’ - knowing the answer is ‘no’ is much better than spending many hours and then finding the answer was actually ‘yes’. Many thanks

Is there anywhere I can find this complete list? I've clicked on all of the links in the OP but nothing comes up. Thank you :)

>94 nightdances:

https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/Groups:BOOKS_PUBLISHED_BY_THE_FOLIO_SOCI...

>94 nightdances: There's also a link to it on the wiki page, under the heading Folio Society Books (along with tons of other useful information!).

https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/Groups:Folio_Society_Devotees

>94 nightdances:
I also posted a link on your home page profile for you.

>1 wcarter: - Ardis books produce a detailed catalogue of most FS books (including many of those that they do not stock)

This is an old thread, but I believe this post belongs here.

Further to the OP, I wanted to share some details via a screenshot of the Ardis Books Folio Society Archive. The main benefit of this database is the ability to search for books by author, illustrator or series in a single click.

Books having multiple authors or illustrators might not display if you type a name not listed in that field. For example, The 3-volume Canterbury Tales has 'Raymond Hawthorn et al' listed as Illustrator. So, if you input Peter Forster - one of many illustrators who worked on this book, in the search field this title will not show up. But you can always search for it by Title or Author name.

Eventhough, the website says you can search for FS publications up to 2006, I have seen a few titles dated 2017. There is also a link to the FSD group on LibraryThing, albeit an old one.

>98 mr.philistine:
There is a link to the Ardis catalogue on the FSD wiki page. Ardis has very few recent releases in their catalogue.

>99 wcarter: Thanks. I believe the Ardis Books Folio Society Archive is the only searchable database of its kind (excluding sales catalogues) outside the complete list of books being maintained here on the FSD group. I especially enjoy looking up book series or searching for works by individual illustrators or authors and then coming back to FSD to search for comments on newly found items of interest :)

>100 mr.philistine:
You may be interested to know that illustrated details of Folio Society book series can be found on FSD here, and a comprehensive illustrated catalogue of Limited Editions by the Folio Society can be found here.

There are links to both these sites from the FSD wiki here, and at the end of the Complete List of Books Published by the Folio Society.

The Ardis catalogue also misses a lot of the rare and unusual FS publications.

>101 wcarter: Appreciate the links. I come across them very often in my search for various books. Of course, the FSD list is complete and regularly updated.

But Ardis fills a few blind spots like smaller series - your list considers 5-book sets and above. So book series like your excellent recently reviewed Arthur Trilogy by Kevin Crossley-Holland get left out. I also enjoy comparing unofficial names of book series. The 'Dark Histories (Medieval Disasters)' series on FSD is called the 'Historic Shockers Series' on Ardis Books!

Also, clicking an author/ illustrator/ series and having the relevant titles appear on-screen is strangely gratifying.

Overall, I use both lists for my needs and am grateful that they are freely accessible.

Maughan -> Maugham
Wuthering Heights author mixed up

>103 jsilver2:
Thanks, fixed.

Thanks you, this list has been super helpful to me!

Based on eBay listings, I think Tristram Shandy is missing a 2005 print on the list?

>105 jsilver2:
Thanks for the information but Reprints are not listed unless they differ significantly from the original.

>106 wcarter: Hmm, the covers are vastly different... green cloth to a modern artwork one.

>107 jsilver2:
OK, will sort out when I get home from travelling in ten days.

The Father Brown Stories by G. K. Chesterton 1996
2 volumes in one slipcase
But I also see the volumes in their own slipcases, which isn't reflected on this list anywhere.

>109 jsilver2: It is indeed reflected on the list in the 1996 section.

>110 FitzJames: Thanks, totally missed that part! "(part of the impression was issued as two separately slipcased volumes)"

It looks like there is a 1998 printing of Red Badge of Courage with a new cover design, that's missing from the list.

>112 jsilver2:
Thanks. Il'll chase that up.

There seem to be 3 different spines for Short Stories by Hemingway, but the pictures linked on your list all have the same spine.

>114 jsilver2: you can check foliodiscover.com for reprints. I made the site a year or so ago, but never felt like sharing it. I use it for structured FS75 search and checking info quickly. Works terribly on mobile but decently on desktop.

>115 bacchus.: That is interesting, thanks for sharing. What is the data source -- this same list? It appears to be missing the same 2 I mentioned above. :-)

>116 jsilver2: Folio75 is the data source. I believe I see the two reprints of short stories you’ve mentioned. One was to print the spine vertically and the other a different design (click on reprints icon)

>117 bacchus.: OK, gotcha. I was referring to 1998? Red Badge of Courage & 2005? Tristram Shandy missing.

Thanks >114 jsilver2: and >115 bacchus.:. I return from travels tomorrow so it seems I have a lot to sort through.

Another thing that I think would be nice to know is who translated/edited the books that are from a foreign language. Unfortunately there might be no good source of this information, other than checking each book personally (hopefully they would say, but maybe not!).

This would be useful because translation is a huge deal for foreign language works. It should be perhaps the main factor in picking an edition.

I realize some do say on your lists, but many do not.

Three small edits/updates to the Statistics section, and to the Signed standard editions section:

Statistics

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. Limited edition 2024. 250 copies sold out within 22 minutes. (£280)

(Folio's edit to their Instagram post one day after the original. Confirmation that The Book Thief may be noted as officially selling out within 22 minutes):



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In 2015 the Folio Society started selling a small number of standard edition books signed by the author or artist on a tipped in bookplate. For this service a surcharge of £40 to £345 was charged. These books sold very well and often sold out within a few minutes or hours. They are not included above as they were not stand-alone editions. A list of these signed standard editions can be seen here.

(The previous upper limit of £135 was already out of date with Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell earlier this year (£225), but outdone utterly by the 15 Mantels available yesterday (or this morning here in New Zealand/Australia), as beneath.)

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Signed standard editions

2022. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel. 250 copies signed by the author for £115 extra (£85 s/p). Sold out in about 24 minutes.

2024. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel. 15 copies signed by the author for a £345 premium (£105 s/p). Sold out in 10 minutes. (Being an overage of the 250 copies from 2022, expanding the limitation to 265 un-numbered signed copies, released in advance of the final Folio instalment of the Thomas Cromwell trilogy, The Mirror & the Light.)

>121 FitzJames:
Thanks. Fixed.

>122 wcarter: Most welcome!

This set in 1 slipcase does not seem to be reflected on your list?

THE THREE MUSKETEERS, TWENTY YEARS AFTER, THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK (3 VOLUMES)

>126 jsilver2:
Fixed. Published in 2010, but books identical to 2001 editions.
All the releases from yesterday have also been added to the list in 2024.

Short Stories by Ernest Hemingway

Appears twice under 2008. Is this a mistake?

There appears to be a newer spine edition of Graham Greene complete entertainments (2004?) that isn't on your list.

>126 jsilver2:
Seems I was a bit over enthusiastic! Duplicate removed.
>127 jsilver2:
I'll look into this. Thanks.

Thinking out loud, I wonder if reprints that have significant production changes that aren't truly new editions should be moved to their own section.

>129 HonorWulf:
Probably too complex.

Based on pictures online, it seems like there are multiple early variants of The Decameron in terms of different color covers/spines. I guess there is probably something between the 1955 and 1969 that is missing on the list.

>132 jsilver2:
Can you be more specific please. There were certainly many editions of The Decameron by the FS but I cannot find a missing one between 1955 and 1969.

>133 wcarter:
Hmm, I'm thinking there are 2 different color schemes as I've seen several that look brown and several that look red, for example:
https://www.ebay.ca/itm/315418813056
https://www.ebay.ca/itm/204347443322

It's possible this is due to bad lighting, but I've seen quite a few of both red and brown.

If I had to guess, the brown is 1969 and the red is earlier. It might even be that the red ones are simply 54/55's missing their dust jackets. However, there are a lot of them and some which were put into slipcases, so that seems unlikely. So I wonder if sometime between 55 and 69 they issued the red ones in a slipcase, and 69 is a new variant of that.

>134 jsilver2:
It may be different printings but they are not differentiated in Folio 60. I do not think that such a subtle change requires an additional entry.

Edit: on second thoughts, the confusion may arise because the FS continued to list the first printing date on the title page on subsequent editions, and sellers may use this date, rather than the later date on the colophon page, as the actual date of publication. The 1955 and 1969 edition were brown bound while later ones may have been reddish brown.

>135 wcarter:
My 1950s copies are unequivocally dark red. Red is notoriously the colour most prone to light damage, which may appear brown.

I just noticed that the list here says of 1969 edition: "Bound in brown buckram."

So it seems that there are certainly red and brown ones. :-)

I wonder how close the red ones are to the 54/54 versions. Perhaps the same minus the dust jackets, perhaps issued together in a slip case?

Looks like the 54/55 versions were reddish-brown with green dustjackets.

Here's some pics without dustjackets:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/146118133398
https://www.ebay.com/itm/387492472873
https://www.ebay.com/itm/305831633133

Here's one where you can see the red poking out from behind the crumbling green dustjacket:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/304803967480

2004 newer version of Complete Sherlock Holmes Short Stories is missing from the list. (I did not see a newer set of Novels to match!)

>139 jsilver2:
I cannot find any reference to this in Folio 75.
What is your source please?

>140 wcarter: Just pictures online....

1993:
https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=31407388309&searchurl=ds%3...

2004:
https://www.hcbooksonline.com/product/the-complete-sherlock-holmes-short-stories...

>141 jsilver2:
Thanks, found it. Same as 1993 edition internally but with a new binding. Will be added to the database.
The FS loves to confuse us by doing this sort of thing!

Can I find the (original) prices of old Folio Society books somewhere ?

>143 Ragnaroekk: The wiki home page has links to the catalogues by year, which contain the original pricing info.

>143 Ragnaroekk: Find the year of publication from the Complete List of FS Books, then search corresponding prospectuses. If a 2002 title is not found in the 2002 prospectus, check the following/ preceding year.

https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/Groups:Folio_Society_Devotees#Folio_Soci...

>144 HonorWulf:
>145 mr.philistine:
Thanks 😊

>146 Ragnaroekk:
There is also an index of each decade (under the decade title) and of the entire collection of catalogues (above all the catalogue lists) that will direct you to the catalogue that contains reference to any particular book.

Hemingway set of 5 novels also has a newer spine not reflected on your list, possibly also from 2008 as with the short stories.

>148 jsilver2:
Thanks. Fixed.

Tender Is The Night has a newer design missing from your list, 2015?

>150 jsilver2: No, that is just a reprint of the 1987 edition.

>150 jsilver2: >151 FitzJames:
There was a reprint in 2005 in the same binding as 1987, but a totally new binding was used for the reprint in 2015 while the text block remained unchanged in all editions.
The list has been updated.
Thanks for the info.

>152 wcarter:

Perhaps I am confused, but I believed the white cover/blue slipcase was the first design in 1987.

Next came the blue, silver, and black cover in 2005.

And lastly, to muddy the waters, in 2015 Folio reissues the 1987 design utterly unchanged as if the intervening 2005 had not existed.

The 1987 (printer noted as Bell & Bain Ltd., Glasgow):
https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=31363125081&searchurl=at...

The 2005 (printer noted as Cambridge University Press):
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/167166704439?_skw=tender+is+the+night+folio&itmme...

The 2015 (printer noted as Lachenmaier, Reutlingen):
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/395794246081?_skw=tender+is+the+night+folio&itmme...

>153 FitzJames:
The FS manages to confuse everyone!
To add to the confusion, the title page lists 1987 as the edition date in all three variants.
I'll look into it again.

Oh wow, very interesting. It's clear on the list now, thanks.

>153 FitzJames: According to bibliography, the 2015 is noted as third reprint of the 1987 edition (following the 2nd printing again in 1987). In the catalog the 2005 edition is an item on its own but mentioned as Second Edition in the original.

FS 590: Tender is the Night (1987)
Second impression (1987)
Second edition (2005) Item FS1232
Third printing (2015) The dimensions now 228 × 149 × 29 mm. Printed by Memminger MedienCentrum. Bound by Real Lachenmaier

>154 wcarter: To add to the confusion, the title page lists 1987 as the edition date in all three variants.

Date on the title page should be the first print. The colophon will have the reprint date(s).