I ordered all these recently. What are some more awesome folios?

>>9748895
>poops self
Just marry me, OP, you cultured fuck.

I really like their LotR set, the binding is great and minimal, with excellent illustrations. Hoping to find a copy of their Gormenghast trilogy one day.

Recently ordered their From Russia with Love and Letterpress Hamlet, looking forward to them.

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One bump before I go to bed. Goodnight lit.

The only good one is Finnegans Wake because of the top-notch illustrations though it's usually around ~$200

I only like the ones without words on the cover. If I'm going to buy the graphic tee of books I'm going to do it for the picture

>>9748895
how much are these each? They look great
also what company does these

Some of them get a bit tasteless (esp. more recently). I have their Beowulf & it's really nice. Also Icelandic Sagas - defo recommend for comfy evening reading.

>>9748895
Awesome!

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>>9748895
That TSZ cover art tho

>>9750605
http://www.foliosociety.com/

without top right (cant ID), iliad, name of the rose, and waiting for godot, that grand total is 555 USD.

i always figured these were gift books and actually collecting them for your own personal library was a waste of money since many are available for 1/2 to 1/5 of the price from other publishers.

you might as well get thatcher to wrap them for you too, so you can spend more time looking and talking about them instead of actually reading them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh5EYJCZeEI

>>9749505
>incorrect pagination
>"good"

go back to r/books

tacky as shit

>>9748895
Most of them suck and look really tacky, like YA overly colorful books -- especially distasteful because of how great some of these are. Especial highlights: Dracula (that looks like the cover for some BDSM erotica e-book about vampires you might find on Amazon, like what the fuck?) , Thus Spoke Zarathustra (the fuck is that cover art?), and WB Yeats's poems and paintings (is there a name for that type of tacky typography with that same tumblr-y font and aesthetic I've seen in so many shitty online attempts at artsiness?). The best looking one is The Sound and the Fury, precisely for the minimalist aesthetic and not trying to clutter up the stuff with garish designs. In Cold Blood also doesn't look so bad, in my opinion.

So pretty much why would you do this? It's a huge waste of money. In my opinion, the best looking books are very plain or at least try to keep it minimally artsy on the outside. Moreover, it doesn't even matter how pretty it looks on the outside, what matters is what's on the fucking inside, yes that's corny, because that's what you're actually going to READ.

>>9751032
I disagree. I think the thus spoke zarathustra and dracula ones are some of the best looking of the bunch. I happen to like the style, I guess it's just a matter of taste. I really enjoy the books.

I don't get why people act like if you have a nice edition of a book that you somehow won't be reading them. Why not have an aesthetically pleasing book, and read it too? It's not like one excludes the other. I happen to really like gazing at my book shelf, taking the book off the shelf, feeling the material it's made of; it is all very pleasing to me.

>>9751032
There are companies that have a more uniform, conservative style. Those companies would be Easton Press and Franklin Library. I like those a lot too, and I have my own separate collection of Easton Press and this one stray Franklin Library book. I happen to like all 3 publishers though.

>>9748895
huh didn't realise they did in cold blood. must look out for that one

nobody pays full price for folio society books tho. i see a lot of them in my local oxfam bookshop for about £5-8. my local antiquarian bookshop always has 1 or 2 on their bargain shelf for £3. i have a bookcase full of them that i got that way.

>>9750684
tacky as hell + how do you find the book you're looking for WHEN YOU WANT TO READ IT

>>9751104
well ya know they have the titles written on the sides?

>>9748895
Lmao these are so tacky...like worse than the Barnes and noble leather editions. Why would you spend your money on these??

>>9751113
look at the video

>>9751118
no way, they're nowhere as bad as the B&N ones

>>9751104
>>9751127
>>9750684
I don't know why you linked a video to Juniper books. The books in the OP are Folio Society. I don't even own any Juniper books and no one mentioned them until that person linked that video.

They really don't look good sitting on a shelf and generally the translations for these designer books are subpar because they use older public domain stuff when they can. If you're just looking for a pretty bookshelf why not go with something like Harvard Classics? Not only are they good looking and readable but they're cheap.

>>9751143
yeah I meant the Juniper books. OP's books are alright, at least A portrait, The sound and the one to the right without any text on it. Illiad and The Odyssey look gorgeous

>>9751166
That's something I took into account when buying these books. The Homer epics are Robert Fagles (I have a copy of the Rodney Merrill Translations, but I wanted to read the Robert Fagles translation). The Thus Spoke Zarathustra translation seems to be reputable, from the reviews I've seen on the internet I researched before hand. The rest of them are all in English. I wouldn't buy the Crime and Punishment edition of Folio Society though, because they actually do use a very old translation for that one. I use Everymans Library for Dostoevsky translations, because they have P&V.

>>9750684
The Joyce book they gave me for free btw.

>>9751166
>generally the translations for these designer books are subpar because they use older public domain stuff when they can

not actually true in folio's case
plus they always name the translator on their site

>>9751187
>I wouldn't buy the Crime and Punishment edition of Folio Society though, because they actually do use a very old translation for that one.
My bad, it's actually not an old translation.

>>9750970
I keep seeing this said, and it concerns me because I own the Folio FW and have no idea what you're talking about. What's incorrect about the pagination?

A nice cheap folio society is The Greek Myths by Robert Graves, for everyone starting with the Greeks

>>9751324
almost every fw edition has 628 pages and all commentary, critical guides, annotations, discussion (citation, etc.) and discourse around FW uses that pagination and line number scheme.

the folio has 500 odd pages so if i tell you to locate the thunderword on 23.5-7 you won't be able to find it

>>9751332
the reason it is always cheap is that nobody who owns it has ever read it, and eventually they realise they will never read it and give it away.
including me. never even opened my copy.

What are the reasonings for buying Folios instead of Everyman's library?

>>9751600
better paper and better binding

whether that's worth it or important to you is up to you to decide/dependent on just how much money you have

not all books are of the same quality even if they're all "hardcover." objectively, folios are some of the sturdiest and most carefully constructed books you can get on the mass market. it's just something that's not that useful/important to most people.

>>9751432
Yeah I got the Folio Finnegans Wake as a graduation gift, and it's beautiful, but I still keep an old paper back one around for when I want to use secondary materials.

I picked up Meditations, and Analects, because I have had my eye on them for a few months now and couldn't pass up 50pc off. Wonderful they threw in Portrait for free, because my Joyce loving cousin told me to pick it up recently anyway, so he'll be happy.

>>9748895

Anyone know if the New Years sale is a lot better?

>>9753239
How is the meditations translation?

>>9753334
Not overly Latinate in style, but still clear and formal. It's the Maxwell Staniforth translation. It's my preferred translation frankly.

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>>9748895
Personally, I think that these look hideous.

The only ones that I would consider buying, based solely on aesthetics, are their limited editions of Shakespeare's oeuvre.

How much did you pay for all of this?

>he doesnt have a folio copy of wind in the willows
how uncouth

The value of a book is not the paper it's printed on. The material aspect of it is just a necessary intermediary, the vessel that delivers the novel to you. Fuckin waste of money is what folio is.

>>9751032
Because it's not just the covers. Like you said, what matters is on the inside, and Folio books have sturdy binding and use archival or near-archival quality paper with readable typefaces and ink that contrasts nicely to the quality paper. The covers designs are only the wrapping.