![]() We also have featured a wide variety of literary tours, and literary events to help readers find exciting and interesting places to visit. Writing featuring writers and the places that they have traveled. Since 1998, Literary Traveler has provided informative and inspiring travel Or you could consider them the first step toward the creation of your own perfect library, which is precisely what I plan to do.Īt Literary Traveler we help readers explore their literary imagination. Leaving aside for a moment my personal bibliophile tendencies, I have to point out that this box set would make a perfect gift for a recent graduate-particularly if that newly minted scholar happened to major in English. Books were once hard to come by, and letters were once treated with a sacred and artistic respect. We are so surrounded by the written word that it no longer feels at all miraculous (after all, a highway sign rarely evokes emotion, much aless a feeling of admiration for the chosen font), but projects like this serve as a reminder that this doesn’t have to be the case. Under her hand, letters don’t look like stark symbols, but individual pieces of art. The titles are in turn eerie and spectacular, whimsical and romantic.Ī quick look through Hische’s portfolio shows that this isn’t unusual for the designer. Cattails extend from the sunburst corners and little leafy tendrils underline each carefully-set letter. ![]() In contrast, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn brings to mind a vintage fairground flier. For example, the cover for Dracula is done in a vivid red and black, dripping blood and decorated with creeping vines that morph into batwings, rather than the expected three-pointed ivy leaves. I am not an expert in typography, but even I can see that the fonts are truly wonderful each one is clearly chosen to fit the subject matter within. Though I already own many of these books, I’m still considering getting Hische’s set-mainly because they’re so gorgeous. For $63, you can get the entire boxed set, which includes a copy of Dracula, Pride and Prejudice, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and The Picture of Dorian Gray. The books, which are available only in Barnes & Noble stores and on their website, are very reasonably priced. Working with art director Jo Obarowski, Hische created an exclusive series of covers for a collection of classic novels. My library fantasies were recently reawakened when I stumbled across a collaboration between Brooklyn-based designer Jessica Hische and Barnes & Noble. Someday, I like to think, I’ll have floor-to-ceiling shelves, displaying a Hogwarts-esque collection of weighty old classics, covered in just the right amount of dust. I’ll admit, my current collection is made primarily of used books and well-thumbed paperbacks, but I treasure the few nice books I own. The books were originally marketed as ‘leatherbound Barnes & Noble Exclusive Books’ until around 2007, and the loose collection of books listed below (which for ease of reference I call ‘the original series’) includes all the leatherbound classics that were published between 1992-2006.Though I love paperbacks and adore my Kindle, there is nothing that feels quite as literary, quite as solid and impressive, as a leather-bound book. In 2005, the release of the highly decorated edition of The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll started a new revolution, leading into the much more decorative editions we know and recognise as making up the Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics series today. The contents of books were identical, with the copyright page including both ISBNs, and they were printed on environmentally friendly archival paper by Lyons Falls Pulp & Paper. These first books were typically brought out in two formats – one ‘casebound’ (a typical hardback) and a more limited number of ‘leatherbound’ copies. The size was typically around 9-10 inches high and 6-7 inches wide. The contents were omnibus editions, binding up multiple titles by the same author in a single book, and initial designs were very traditional, with dark (bonded) leather covers featuring gold text and simple foiled borders on the front and back boards, raised bands on the spine, gilt page edges, decorative endpapers, and a sewn-in ribbon bookmark. Barnes & Noble brought out their first set of collectible leather-bound classic editions in 1992.
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