Thomas Lanier “Tennessee” Williams III (1911-1983) was a prolific American writer of short stories, novels, poetry and, most famously, screenplays. Some of his major works include The Glass Menagerie (1945), A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), Summer and Smoke (1948)…
Here’s a look at another volume in the Limited Editions Club Shakespeare, a series that I’ve written about in detail before. All of the books in the series were letterpress printed and published by the Club as part of…
Almost five years ago I got an email from from one of my very first clients who, I’m happy to say, I still do a lot of work for even after all this time. He had some really exciting…
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) was the sixteenth president of the United States, serving from March 1861 until April 1865, when he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth a short time into his second term as president. Lincoln is perhaps one…
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde needs little introduction. It’s one of Robert Louis Stevenson’s (1850—1894) most popular works, alongside other classics like Treasure Island and Kidnapped. It was first published in 1886, with the original…
The Brothers Grimm were popular German academics, cultural researchers and authors who published several collections of European folktales. The first edition of the first two volumes were published in 1812 and 1814 respectively, with several editions being published…
Steven Erikson’s Gardens of the Moon is the first book in the epic fantasy series The Malazan Book of the Fallen. It was first published in 1999 by Bantam Press in paperback and the series was completed nine books…
The Wind in the Willows was part of the introductory set of books being offered by The Folio Society to Rest of the World customers last year when I decided to join. I’d actually never heard of it before,…