Jane Austen The Novels EP BY DESIGN (Item#3557; $594)
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1EPsonNY
Cloth comeback (Easton Press BY DESIGN)?
https://www.eastonpress.com/all-categories/literature/jane-austen---the-novels-3...
Easton Press BY DESIGN sets so far:
1. George Washington in 5 volumes by Washington Irving (2015)
2. Illustrated Legends of King Arthur in 4 volumes by Howard Pyle (2016)
3. The Masterpieces in 5 volumes by Kurt Vonnegut (2016)
4. Brock-illustrated Novels in 6 volumes by Jane Austen (2020)
https://www.eastonpress.com/all-categories/literature/jane-austen---the-novels-3...
Easton Press BY DESIGN sets so far:
1. George Washington in 5 volumes by Washington Irving (2015)
2. Illustrated Legends of King Arthur in 4 volumes by Howard Pyle (2016)
3. The Masterpieces in 5 volumes by Kurt Vonnegut (2016)
4. Brock-illustrated Novels in 6 volumes by Jane Austen (2020)
2HugoDumas
>1 EPsonNY: Perplexing. Clothbound reprint for $600? The red leather set with the illustrations of Brock was lovely. I purchased a few off of eBay at a significantly lower cost.
3EPsonNY
>2 HugoDumas: Definitely perplexing and overpriced. It is a bit reminiscent of Juniper Books and their custom jackets. Below is a link to their Jane Austen set with custom jackets - one of their least original designs:
https://www.juniperbooks.com/products/jane-austen-book-set
A bigger question is whether it is the beginning of a long-term trend where multi-volume leather-bound editions like King Arthur of Novels of Jane Austen will be replaced with cloth bound volumes with custom dust jackets...
https://www.juniperbooks.com/products/jane-austen-book-set
A bigger question is whether it is the beginning of a long-term trend where multi-volume leather-bound editions like King Arthur of Novels of Jane Austen will be replaced with cloth bound volumes with custom dust jackets...
5EPsonNY
>4 Wootle: Thank you!
7eastonlionel
And the EP pictures both in the catalog and on the website only show the dust jackets, not what's underneath. The website does have a few images of illustrations in the books. No other pictures of the pages themselves. What edition is this a facsimile of? When I first saw the Austen set in the catalog, I was a bit excited, then I saw the price. :(
Agree the price is mind boggling. Why would anyone pay $100/volume when the leather set is much less. At that price I'd buy the FS editions, which look very interesting, and you know you'll get a high quality printing.
Agree the price is mind boggling. Why would anyone pay $100/volume when the leather set is much less. At that price I'd buy the FS editions, which look very interesting, and you know you'll get a high quality printing.
8EPsonNY
>7 eastonlionel: Appearance of this set coincided with the disappearance of the leather-bound set (sold out or intentionally removed?). FS editions at 6x$70 would definitely be less, but each volume has a different contemporary illustrator (less known, not necessarily worse), not famous Brock. At almost $600 a nice slipcase or storage box should be included similar to the Amazon's Jane Austen Heirloom collection from a while back...
9astropi
Well, I think this is a lovely set!
It was originally published in 1898 and limited to 250 sets. Those are incredibly expensive, thousands of dollars, assuming you can find one. It was later reprinted and the reprints can also be crazy expensive too, not to mention condition is often poor. So, all in all, I don't think the price is bad at all. In fact, note that
These books are printed on archival quality paper specially milled for this edition. It is acid-neutral and conforms to all guidelines established for permanence and durability by the Council of Library Resources and the American National Standards Institute.
Paper specially made for this edition is very cool. I will point out that as far as I know, the original edition had 10 volumes, including a few illustrated by H.M Brock. I think that H.M. must have been the illustrator for the four other books. It would be interesting to compare this with other editions of EP that have the Brock illustrations. I suspect that all in all this edition is of higher quality, but of course, I don't know.
It was originally published in 1898 and limited to 250 sets. Those are incredibly expensive, thousands of dollars, assuming you can find one. It was later reprinted and the reprints can also be crazy expensive too, not to mention condition is often poor. So, all in all, I don't think the price is bad at all. In fact, note that
These books are printed on archival quality paper specially milled for this edition. It is acid-neutral and conforms to all guidelines established for permanence and durability by the Council of Library Resources and the American National Standards Institute.
Paper specially made for this edition is very cool. I will point out that as far as I know, the original edition had 10 volumes, including a few illustrated by H.M Brock. I think that H.M. must have been the illustrator for the four other books. It would be interesting to compare this with other editions of EP that have the Brock illustrations. I suspect that all in all this edition is of higher quality, but of course, I don't know.
10EPsonNY
>9 astropi:
1. As lovely as it may be a set, please provide the source of your edition information. Neither the website nor the catalogue provide such details - 1898, 250 sets, 10 volumes etc.
2. Comparing prices of reproductions to prices of originals is not comparing apples to apples. By the same token any Dickens or Twain set is a bargain.
3. "These books are printed on archival quality paper" is a standard EP marketing line. Whether this has been "specially milled for this edition" can only be confirmed by looking at the publisher information page in the book (see your DLEs) that lists type of paper used and place where it was milled. When you get your copy, please post the details unless of course it is too "crazy expensive" for you :).
1. As lovely as it may be a set, please provide the source of your edition information. Neither the website nor the catalogue provide such details - 1898, 250 sets, 10 volumes etc.
2. Comparing prices of reproductions to prices of originals is not comparing apples to apples. By the same token any Dickens or Twain set is a bargain.
3. "These books are printed on archival quality paper" is a standard EP marketing line. Whether this has been "specially milled for this edition" can only be confirmed by looking at the publisher information page in the book (see your DLEs) that lists type of paper used and place where it was milled. When you get your copy, please post the details unless of course it is too "crazy expensive" for you :).
11treereader
I still don't understand this styling from EP. If I wanted books with dust jackets, I'd shop at Barnes and Noble, Books-A-Million, or the like. If I wanted high-quality, well-designed cloth-bound books, I'd buy from Folio Society. Since Easton Press' name is essentially synonymous to leather binding, and given how few of these "by Design" series there have been, they just seem like a halfhearted money grab (I'm assuming these are far less expensive to manufacture). I'm not opposed to Easton Press branching out into non-leatherbound books but I think they need to commit to the idea more seriously and show us a greater selection and a quality competitive with either their own leatherbound books or with the cloth-bound ones of the Folio Society.
What if all or a significant percentage of all Easton Press books were sold with your choice of cloth or leather binding? Would that set them on a path that eventually eliminates leather binding? Would cloth fizzle out or flounder about much like this "by Design" series?
What if all or a significant percentage of all Easton Press books were sold with your choice of cloth or leather binding? Would that set them on a path that eventually eliminates leather binding? Would cloth fizzle out or flounder about much like this "by Design" series?
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