The Limited Editions Club is famous for original illustrations by the best book illustrators and artists. Between 1929 and 1985, 10 to 12 titles featuring 1,500 numbered copies each were published annually although the print run expanded to 2,000 numbered copies in later years.
Each title was unique, using special papers, special cover material including many in leather, almost all came in a slipcase or clamshell box, many of the titles were already regarded as classics and produced by private small presses throughout the world, almost all were signed by either the illustrator, author, publisher or designer. Sometimes three signatures can be found on the colophon page.
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1936. Illustrated by Edward Wilson. Limited Edition # 905 of 1500. Leather Hardcover in Slipcase. "The Man Without a Country" is a short story by American writer Edward Everett Hale, first published in The Atlantic in December 1863This story came out during the height of.....
London: Limited Editions Club, 1936. Limited Edition. Hardcover. The original essay by Maurice Robert for a French bibliophiles group, the Union Latine d'Editions in Paris. Then was translated by Jacques LeClerq. The essay is here re-translated for an American audience by Frederic Ware. Contains several pages of a glossary of.....