{"product_id":"the-folio-poets-complete-set-of-9-volumes-first-folio-society-editions","title":"The Folio Poets: Complete Set of 9 Volumes (First Folio Society Editions)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBYRON, Lord; COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor; DONNE, John; KEATS, John; KIPLING, Rudyard; SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe; TENNYSON, Alfred Lord; WORDSWORTH, William; YEATS, W. 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. KEATS, John.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Complete Poems.\u003c\/em\u003e 2001. Quarter deep green Morocco and pictorial black cloth boards. Upper edge deep green. Green slipcase. 472 pp. Edited by John Barnard. Introduced by Andrew Motion. 76 wood engravings by Simon Brett.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2. WORDSWORTH, William.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eSelected Poems.\u003c\/em\u003e 2002. Quarter brown Morocco and pictorial ochre cloth boards. Upper edge brown. Brown slipcase. 495 pp. Edited and introduced by Nicholas Roe. Engravings by Peter Reddick.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e3. COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eSelected Poems.\u003c\/em\u003e 2003. Quarter navy Morocco and pictorial navy cloth boards. Upper edge navy. Navy slipcase. 372 pp. Edited and introduced by Richard Holmes. Engravings by Miriam MacGregor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e4. KIPLING, Rudyard.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eSelected Poems.\u003c\/em\u003e 2004. Quarter burgundy Morocco and pictorial tan cloth boards. Upper edge burgundy. Burgundy slipcase. 405 pp. Edited by Andrew Lycett. Engravings by George Tute.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e5. DONNE, John.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Complete English Poems.\u003c\/em\u003e 2005. Quarter red Morocco and pictorial cream cloth boards. Upper edge red. Red slipcase. 438 pp. Edited by A.J. Smith.  Introduction by Andrew Motion. Engravings by Jane Lydbury.                                                \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e6. TENNYSON, Alfred Lord.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eSelected Poems.\u003c\/em\u003e 2006. Quarter green Morocco and pictorial cream cloth boards. Upper edge green. Green slipcase. 429 pp. Introduced and annotated by Ruth Padel. 36 wood engravings by Ian Stephens.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e7. YEATS, W. B.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eCollected Poems.\u003c\/em\u003e 2007. Quarter light brown Morocco and pictorial sienna cloth boards. Upper edge sienna. Light brown slipcase. 536 pp. Introduced by Roy Foster. 71 engravings by Harry Brockway.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e8. SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eCollected Poems.\u003c\/em\u003e 2008. Quarter deep red Morocco and pictorial brown cloth boards. Upper edge deep red. Burgundy slipcase. 552 pp. Edited by Neville Rogers. Introduced by Richard Holmes. 65 engravings by Simon Brett.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e9. BYRON, Lord.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eSelected Poems.\u003c\/em\u003e 2013. Quarter orange Morocco and pictorial blue cloth boards. Upper edge orange. Blue slipcase. 400 pp. Edited by Susan J. Wolfson and Peter J. Manning. Introduced by Jonathan Bate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe Folio Poets series was conceived as a sustained exercise in matching the physical ambitions of Folio Society production to the highest tier of the English poetic tradition. 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. The result, when complete, is not only a comprehensive library of English poetry from Donne to Yeats but a coherent production object — a set that declares its unity in the uniform scale and format of the volumes, and its range in the nine distinct colours of their spines.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe editorial team assembled across the series is a roll call of major critical voices: Richard Holmes, the biographer of Coleridge and Shelley, contributing introductions to both volumes in which he has specialised authority; Roy Foster, the pre-eminent Yeats biographer, introducing the Yeats; Andrew Motion, Poet Laureate, on Keats; Ruth Padel on Tennyson; Jonathan Bate on Byron. The illustrators — Simon Brett, Peter Reddick, Miriam MacGregor, George Tute, Jane Lydbury, Ian Stephens, Harry Brockway — were each selected for sympathetic alignment with their subject. Simon Brett alone contributed to three volumes (Keats, Shelley, Byron), and his engravings across those three form a coherent visual argument about the Romantic tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe series is discontinued. The Folio Society confirmed there will be no further additions to the Folio Poets, and the series is now complete at nine volumes. A complete set in fine condition with all nine matching slipcases becomes harder to assemble with each passing year.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFine throughout. \u003c\/strong\u003eAll nine volumes fine, free from imperfections. A few slipcases with very mild shelf markings only, otherwise generally fine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlease note: This item is a nine-volume set and is very heavy. Additional postage costs will apply. Please contact us for a shipping quote before purchase.\u003c\/strong\u003e\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. 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