allmyprettybooks-new

I am so excited about the release of these deliciously illustrated editions of each and every single volume  of the Harry Potter series! Starting in October 2015 with The Philosopher's Stone , these beautiful editions illustrated by Jim Kay will be available to purchase from Bloomsbury. I'm sure it will make bedtime reading for my children even more enchanting... Learn more (and pre-order) on the Bloomsbury website .

Yet more beautiful hardcovers designed for Penguin by Coralie Bickford-Smith. I want every single one of them! A total of ten titles in this series are due to be released on November 6th 2014*, including: The Art of War by Tsu Sun A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli Meditations by Marcus Aurelius Letters from a Stoic: Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium by Seneca Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer Beyond Good and Evil  by Friedrich Nietzsche Fear and Trembling: Dialectical Lyric by Johannes De Silentio by Soren Kierkegaard The Communist Manifesto  by Karl Marx Civilisation and its Discontents by Sigmund Freud (* Correct as of August 21st, 2014).

Marco Polo’s The Travels is to be the 50th title in Penguin’s Clothbound Classics series. Gorgeous! (via Clothbound Classic No 50 — Coralie Bickford-Smith )

Note: an updated list, including a new printable, can be found here . I love the clothbound editions of the Classics from Penguin. Aren’t they gorgeous? Slowly but surely, I’m collecting my own little library of these beautiful books, and have compiled a complete list of the 50 (plus one) titles to tick off as I acquire them. Below the jump is my complete list, including publishing date. If you’d prefer to have a list of your own, you can download and print the list as an A4 sized PDF , or as printables for your personal sized Filofax (as I’m currently using). In case you were wondering, the “plus one” I mentioned earlier is The Pearl, which was originally commissioned by the V&A Museum. All of the other 50 titles were commissioned by Penguin, and the whole set was designed by the talented Coralie Bickford-Smith. The list also includes titles which have not yet been published, and is correct as of the date this post was published (August 2014).