{"title":"Folio Society","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Folio Society is renowned for producing some of the world’s most beautifully crafted books. Luxury editions of literary classics and modern masterpieces, illustrated by leading artists and bound with exceptional attention to detail. This curated Folio Society collection at Harry Hartog brings together collectible editions designed for discerning readers, thoughtful gift-givers, and serious book collectors. These are books made to be treasured for generations.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"night-thoughts-folio-society-limited-edition","title":"Night Thoughts (Folio Society Limited Edition)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYOUNG, Edward\u003c\/strong\u003e (illus. William Blake). \u003cem\u003eNight Thoughts: The Complaint; or, Night Thoughts on Life, Death, \u0026amp; Immortality.\u003c\/em\u003e London: The Folio Society, 2005. 3 vols.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThick elephant folio. Two main volumes bound in quarter goatskin and illustrated cloth. Spines lettered in gilt. Cover illustration by Neil Gower. Contents printed on Natural Evolution paper by Castelli Bolis. Accompanied by envelope containing three loose prints. Companion commentary volume by Robyn Hamlyn. Vol. I \u0026amp; II: 548 pp. across two volumes; companion volume: [vi], xx, 362 pp. Housed in purple buckram solander case lettered in gilt. \u003cstrong\u003eFirst Folio Society edition. First and only complete publication of Blake's watercolour illustrations for \u003cem\u003eNight Thoughts\u003c\/em\u003e. Limited to 750 numbered copies, this being number 484.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eEdward Young's \u003cem\u003eThe Complaint: or, Night Thoughts on Life, Death, \u0026amp; Immortality\u003c\/em\u003e, published between 1742 and 1745, was one of the most widely read poems of the eighteenth century — a long meditation on mortality, grief, and the consolations of faith, written in the shadow of the deaths of his wife and stepdaughter. Its influence on the Romantic movement was substantial.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eWhen William Blake undertook his illustrations for a projected edition in the 1790s, he produced over 500 watercolours. This produced a body of work of extraordinary ambition and visual intensity, among the most powerful he ever made. The published edition of 1797 reproduced only 43 of these as engravings; the project was a commercial failure, and the remaining watercolours remained unpublished, eventually passing to the British Museum where they have been held ever since.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis Folio Society facsimile of 2005 is the first and only time the complete series of watercolours has been reproduced in full colour and at full scale. The result is a publishing event of genuine art-historical significance: nearly 500 works by Blake, many of them little known even to specialists, presented for the first time as the complete visual accompaniment Young's poem was always intended to have. The accompanying commentary volume by Robyn Hamlyn, Blake specialist and former curator at Tate Britain, provides the scholarly apparatus appropriate to the material.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNear fine.\u003c\/strong\u003e Some very mild foxing to the cloth of Vol. II. Otherwise fine throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis book is currently not on display in store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\" title=\"Harry Hartog Rare Book Department\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000154.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlease note: This item is very large and heavy. Within Australia it may require additional postage costs. 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Cover illustration blocked in 22-carat gold, designed by Neil Gower. Spine lettered in gilt. All edges gilt. Contents printed on Rigoletto Panna felt-marked paper. 5 full-page illustrations. 328 pp. Commentary volume bound in quarter black buckram and blue boards, cover titling on white panel. 48 pp. Housed in black buckram solander case lettered in gilt. \u003cstrong\u003eFirst Folio Society edition. Limited to 1,250 numbered copies, this being number 83.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eTroilus and Criseyde\u003c\/em\u003e is among the greatest long poems in the English language, and the work in which Chaucer's powers are most fully and consistently sustained. Written in the 1380s in the \u003cem\u003erime royal\u003c\/em\u003e stanza of seven pentameter lines, it tells the story of the Trojan warrior Troilus — youngest son of King Priam — who falls desperately in love with the widow Criseyde, is aided in his pursuit by her uncle Pandarus, achieves happiness, and then loses everything when Criseyde is exchanged in a prisoner swap to the Greek camp and there, under pressure of circumstance, takes a new lover. The Trojan War provides the doomed backdrop; the poem's subject is the nature of love, fortune, and human freedom in a world governed by forces beyond individual control.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eChaucer drew on Boccaccio's \u003cem\u003eIl Filostrato\u003c\/em\u003e but transformed his source utterly. Where Boccaccio's poem is relatively direct in its psychological movement, Chaucer's is dense with irony, philosophical reflection, and a compassion for all three of its central figures that gives it a moral complexity unusual in medieval literature. The narrator's own relationship to his material, simultaneously invested and distanced, is itself one of the poem's most sophisticated achievements. It has been described as the first great novel in English in everything but form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe Folio Society edition of 2011, produced in a strictly limited edition of 1,250 numbered copies, presents the poem in a production of exceptional gravity. Neil Gower's cover design, blocked in 22-carat gold on full black goatskin, gives the volume the character of an object of value rather than mere decoration. The five full-page illustrations and the accompanying commentary volume complete an edition that takes both the poem and its reader seriously.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFine throughout. \u003c\/strong\u003eAll volumes and solander case impeccably preserved.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis book is currently on display in our \u003cstrong\u003ePaddington \u003c\/strong\u003estore. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\" title=\"Harry Hartog Rare Book Department\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000159\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlease note: This item is large and heavy. Within Australia it may require additional postage costs. 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Spine lettered in 22-carat gold. Cover illustrated and stamped in three shades of gilt by Niroot Puttapipat. Top edge gilt, others uncut. [viii], 219 pp., with 16 mounted colour plates and original etching by Niroot Puttapipat. Housed in navy-blue buckram solander case. \u003cstrong\u003eFirst Folio Society edition. Facsimile of the first edition of FitzGerald's translation, published by Bernard Quaritch, 1859, with some minor emendations. Limited to 1,000 copies, this being number 22. Numbered and signed by the artist on the frontispiece.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe story of Edward FitzGerald's translation of the \u003cem\u003eRubáiyát \u003c\/em\u003eis one of the classics of happenstance. Published anonymously by Bernard Quaritch in 1859, initially to almost complete indifference, it was discovered by Dante Gabriel Rossetti in a penny box outside a bookshop and passed among the Pre-Raphaelites. It quickly became one of the most celebrated works of poetry in the English language and has never been out of print. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe original Persian quatrains of Omar Khayyám, an eleventh-century mathematician and astronomer from Nishapur, were transformed by FitzGerald into something that is simultaneously a translation, an adaptation, and an original poem: a meditation on pleasure, impermanence, and the indifference of the universe, expressed in some of the most musical verse of the Victorian period.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe Folio Society edition of 2009, published to mark the 150th anniversary of FitzGerald's translation, presents the text of the first edition within a production of considerable elegance. The illustrations and cover design by Niroot Puttapipat — whose intricate, richly coloured work draws on both Persian miniature tradition and the decorative aesthetics of the Arts and Crafts movement — are particularly well suited to a text that has always attracted artists of an ornamental sensibility. The sixteen mounted colour plates, together with a signed original etching, give the volume a visual richness entirely appropriate to its subject. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eFine. \u003c\/b\u003eVolume and all contents present like new. A stunning copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis book is currently on display in our \u003cstrong\u003ePaddington\u003c\/strong\u003e store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca title=\"Harry Hartog Rare Book Department\" href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000162\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlease note: This item is very large and heavy. Within Australia it may require additional postage costs. 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A tale of supernatural crime and punishment set on a becalmed sea, narrated by a mariner compelled to repeat his story to strangers until the end of time, haunted by what he did to an albatross and what that act cost him and everyone around him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eColeridge was twenty-five when he wrote it, and it is one of those poems that seems to have arrived fully formed from somewhere not entirely explained by the ordinary processes of literary composition. It has attracted illustrators from Gustave Doré onwards, each bringing their own understanding of its particular quality of nightmare. Harry Brockway — beloved for his wood-engravings for the Folio Society's Frankenstein, also in this collection — brings a printmaker's sensibility to the task: dense, darkly atmospheric plates in which the supernatural elements are handled with restraint, allowing the horror to accumulate in the margins of things seen rather than in direct confrontation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe Folio Society's decision to print the text on verso pages only, leaving each recto facing blank, is a considered one: it gives the reader space to sit with the poem before turning the page, and ensures that when a plate appears it commands the full attention of the opening. The result is a book that enacts something of the poem's own deliberate, measured quality of dread.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNear fine. \u003c\/strong\u003eA hint of foxing to foredge. Otherwise, fine inside and out in like solander case.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eThis book is currently on display in our \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003ePaddington \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003estore. 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Main volume hand bound by Smith Settle in quarter dark green goatskin and dark green canvas cloth. Spine lettered in gilt on black leather panel. Cover illustration in gilt and colour after the plate \u003cem\u003eThe Night-Blowing Cereus\u003c\/em\u003e, reproduced by David Eccles. Upper edge stained dark green. Main volume: 9 preliminary monochrome plates, 5 preliminary colour plates, 29 full-colour floral plates, and 2 loose full-colour plates in envelope. Commentary volume by Stephen Harris bound in dark green buckram, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, 117 pp. Housed in green canvas cloth solander case. \u003cstrong\u003eFirst Folio Society edition. Facsimile. Limitation: 1,980 copies printed in total, of which 600 were bound with the full text; this being number 23 of those 600.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eRobert John Thornton was a physician and botanist with an ambition that far exceeded his means. Between 1797 and 1807, he produced \u003cem\u003eNew Illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus von Linnaeus\u003c\/em\u003e, a work intended to be the most magnificent botanical publication ever made. Its third and most celebrated part was \u003cem\u003eThe Temple of Flora\u003c\/em\u003e: a series of flower paintings in which the plants were presented not against the flat white grounds of conventional botanical illustration but within dramatic landscaped settings that gave each plate the character of a Romantic landscape painting as much as a work of natural history. He commissioned the leading artists of the day, including Peter Henderson, Philip Reinagle, and Abraham Pether, and had their paintings engraved and hand-coloured to a standard that had no precedent in botanical publishing. The cost was ruinous. Thornton never recovered financially from the project, and in 1811 he resorted to a parliamentary lottery to dispose of the plates and books.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe plates that survived this history are among the most extraordinary objects in the literature of natural history illustration: oversize, technically accomplished, and of an extravagance that sets them apart from anything produced before or since.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eGiven the history of Thornton's original, the story of the Folio Society facsimile of 2008 is somewhat ironic. Published with similar difficulties, the intention was to produce 1,980 copies, however a lukewarm initial response forced the publisher to change plans, only producing 600 bound copies, and offering the rest of the plates loose. Despite the issues, this is among the largest and most beautiful works the Folio Society has ever created. Printed at full elephant folio scale with the cover design reproducing \u003cem\u003eThe Night-Blowing Cereus\u003c\/em\u003e in gilt and colour, is the most faithful large-scale reproduction of the complete series. The accompanying commentary volume by Stephen Harris of the Oxford University Herbaria provides the botanical and historical context the plates deserve.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNear fine.\u003c\/strong\u003e Solander case somewhat bumped and marked, with a small patch of wear to upper spine crease. 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The celebrity was inseparable from the work: when \u003cem\u003eChilde Harold's Pilgrimage\u003c\/em\u003e appeared in 1812 Byron woke to find himself, as he put it, famous, and the brooding, self-exiled protagonist of that poem — the original Byronic hero — was immediately and not entirely inaccurately identified with his creator. He spent the rest of his short life living up to the identification, which meant exile from England following the collapse of his marriage in 1816, an affair with Mary Godwin's stepsister Claire Clairmont, the famous summer at the Villa Diodati on Lake Geneva where \u003cem\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/em\u003e was conceived, and a succession of Italian entanglements before his death at Missolonghi in 1824, where he had gone to support the Greek war of independence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe poetry sustains the legend rather than being obscured by it. 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Vol. I: lii, 610 pp; Vol. II: xvi, 644 pp. \u003cstrong\u003eLimited deluxe edition. Limited to 780 numbered copies for sale (plus 20 lettered copies not for sale), this being number 159.\u003c\/strong\u003e Originally published Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1888. Originally published at £495.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eCharles Montagu Doughty (1843–1926) spent twenty-one months in the Arabian Peninsula between 1876 and 1878, travelling with Bedouin tribes through the Hejaz and Nejd in conditions of intermittent danger, poverty, and extraordinary physical beauty. He was an Englishman and a Christian in a country inhospitable to both, and he survived through a combination of stubbornness, medical knowledge, and the particular protection extended to him by individual Bedouin who chose, against the customs of the region, to keep him alive. He carried no camera. 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It is also, in its illuminated form, among the most spectacular visual productions in the history of English art: a work in which text and image are so completely integrated that to read one without seeing the other is to read something fundamentally different.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis Folio Society edition, produced in association with the William Blake Trust in the 250th anniversary year of Blake's birth, reproduces all one hundred plates in full colour facsimile, with five additional comparative plates from other surviving copies. Morton D. Paley — one of the foremost Blake scholars of his generation and a leading figure at the Blake Trust — edited the volume and provided the introduction, notes, and commentary. 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Gold slipcase with single Thorne illustration in dark brown to front. \u003cstrong\u003eFirst Folio Society edition.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/em\u003e survived by accident and by inches. Composed somewhere in England — scholars have argued about the region and the period for two centuries without reaching consensus, though a date between the seventh and tenth centuries is broadly accepted — the poem exists in a single manuscript, now held in the British Library, which was damaged by fire in 1731 while in the collection of Sir Robert Cotton. The pages at the edges of the burned sheets crumbled further as the decades passed, taking letters and words with them. That the poem survives at all is, as the Folio Society has observed, almost miraculous; that it survives in sufficient completeness to be read and translated is a piece of extraordinary luck.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eWhat survives is the oldest substantial poem in the English language and one of the masterworks of European literature: 3,182 lines of alliterative Old English verse narrating the heroic career of Beowulf, warrior of the Geats, who sails to Denmark to rid the hall of King Hrothgar of the monster Grendel and then of Grendel's mother, returns home to rule his own people for fifty years, and dies fighting a dragon that threatens his kingdom. The poem is not simply an adventure narrative — though it is that — but a sustained meditation on the nature of heroism, the relationship between the individual and the community, the passage of time, and the certainty of loss. The world it describes is already elegiac: a world of flickering mead-hall fires against the darkness, of loyalty and the knowledge that loyalty will not be enough, of great deeds performed in the full awareness that they will not finally prevail. Gerard Manley Hopkins heard the music of it; Tolkien made it the foundation of a lifetime's scholarship and creative work; Ted Hughes translated portions of it; and in 1999 Seamus Heaney (1939–2013) published the translation that settled the question of who had rendered it best into modern English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eHeaney's achievement was to solve a problem that had defeated his predecessors: how to carry the alliterative music of Old English — a metre built on stressed consonants and breath, not on the syllable-counting of classical verse — into a modern English that could still be felt as poetry rather than read as scholarly prose. His solution was biographical as much as technical. He found the key, he has written, in the word \u003cem\u003ethole\u003c\/em\u003e — a word meaning to endure or suffer, used in his own County Derry and elsewhere in the north of Ireland and Scotland, a word descended directly from the Old English \u003cem\u003eþolian\u003c\/em\u003e that appears in the poem. The recognition that his own dialect carried living traces of the poem's language gave him a way in, and the translation he produced — published by Faber in 1999, winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year Award, read by audiences who had never approached Old English verse — is among the most significant literary translations of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe Folio Society edition presents Heaney's translation in parallel with the original Old English text, allowing readers to hear both languages simultaneously. 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Blue slipcase. lviii, 540 pp. 47 pages of full-colour plates reproducing Mughal miniatures throughout; several regional maps preceding the text; genealogies and bibliography. \u003cstrong\u003eFirst Folio Society edition.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eZahiruddin Muhammad Babur (1483–1530) was born in Fergana, in what is now Uzbekistan, the son of a Timurid prince who could trace his lineage to Timur the Great on his father's side and to Genghis Khan through his mother. He spent his youth losing and attempting to recover Samarkand — the great Timurid capital — before establishing himself at Kabul in 1504 and turning his ambitions south. In 1526, at the First Battle of Panipat, he defeated the Sultan of Ibrahim Lodi with a smaller force by deploying field artillery — a novelty in the subcontinent — and in a single afternoon laid the foundations of the Mughal Empire, which his descendants would rule for the next three centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eBaburnama\u003c\/em\u003e — Babur's memoir, written in Chagatai Turkish throughout his life and campaigns — is a document of extraordinary breadth and literary quality. 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B.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Folio Poets.\u003c\/em\u003e London: The Folio Society, 2001–2013. 9 vols.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eLarge Octavo (28 × 19 cm). All nine volumes quarter-bound in leather with distinctively coloured illustrated cloth boards, each volume with matching coloured top edge and plain slipcase. Spines gilt-lettered uniformly. Wood engravings throughout each volume. \u003cstrong\u003eComplete nine-volume set. First Folio Society Illustrated Edition of each volume.\u003c\/strong\u003e Series now discontinued; the complete set in fine condition is no longer readily assembled.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe individual volumes are:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e1. 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Published one volume at a time between 2001 and 2013, the series was assembled around a consistent design principle: each volume distinct in its colour from every other, each illustrated with specially commissioned wood engravings, each edited and introduced by a scholar or poet of recognised authority in the given poet's field. 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