For the Penguin clothbound editions I do take some white paper and improvise a dust jacket to avoid the rubbing and the fingers transpiration to destroy the covers.
I have only one and has water stains, etc😔. I don't like it because when they get stains they don't go or you can't clean it... But they are beautiful and Unique
I actually found you with this video Izzy. Glad to be able to come back to it a year in. I’m thinking of collecting the Wordsworth editions and the Timeless Classics edition. My purse is crying 😅…. Your collection is just gorgeous ❤
I found some books from the Cranford collection in my country (Romania) this month. They cost only 7 euros each so I’m very excited to own them. It is a pity that this collection doesn’t come with more classic illustrations for each book.
Nice collection, Izzy! The vintage ones are great, but require patience and are more expensive to collect. Congrats on the ones you’ve found! You’ve mentioned the illustrated Folio Society ones, which I definitely recommend. For high- end there are also the luxurious, leather-bound Easton Press editions. Also if you haven’t seen them, there are the Litjoy Classics (embossed black and gold, very beautiful) and there’s a deluxe Pride and Prejudice edition with wonderful watercolour illustrations by Bil Donovan, the chief fashion illustrator for Dior.
Love Jane Austen she was one of the first authors I read and what got me into reading. Thank you for sharing such a lovely collection. I also love looking for the continuation stories to her novels too to see how they have been interpreted.
I had exactly the same journey with the Timeless Classis series. I could only get them in my local Tesco Superstore but after a certain point they seemed to stop stocking them, which was annoying as I really wanted both the JA and the Elizabeth Gaskell sets. I realised that they hadn't stopped, just changed the days they were putting on the shelves and also reducing the number of copies they actually stocked making it virtually impossible to get a copy. Eventually I found out that someone I went to school with was the assistant manager so I persuaded him to put a copy to one side of the titles I wanted. I owe him a million drinks 😂😂😂
Oh my goodness well I'm glad i wasn't alone in the journey 😂 it really was stressful, amazing that you found someone who could help you. I love it when people come together to help each other collect books haha, i was so grateful to Sophie for helping me complete my set! Bookish people have to stick together
You win. I read Ms Austen's books each year, but one doesn't have so many different additions. My favourites are Northanger Abbey & Pride & Prejudice, but all are enjoyed by me... Still on a mission to try to read the Bronte family...😐🤓
Haha, I have an insane amount of Austen novels I know! NA and P&P are both sooo good. If you are interested I also have a podcast called What the Austen? where i talk about Jane Austen with guests every other week 🤍
What a beautiful collection. I have the Vintage Classics collection. I have also have Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. And I have a few of their special Virginia Woolf's too. Do you like the Penguin English Library editions? I collect those, I can't afford the clothbound. Though I do get the little ones from Penguin. I have fallen in love with Penguin in the last few years.
Thank you 🤍 I think the paper back english library ones are so pretty! I don't have any, other than the ones I annotate I have focused on hardbacks. They are on my list for the future though. I love that the vintage classics collection was so vast!
@@Izzymeakin I love the covers of Penguin English Library. I love the Vintage ones because they are so comfortable in your hands. And the print size is perfect. The Virginia Woolf collection has really pretty covers too.
I have come across your channel recently. My research has found that RBA, who sell the Timeless Classics, is a Spanish company who also sell these books in the Spanish language. I'm thinking of going for a subscription with them as I don't currently own any of the 45 titles they sell and would like to.
You must have seen them in Spanish, not Italian. Timeless classics were first published in Spain and became incredibly popular, and then they started the issues in the UK. In Spain you can either subscribe or just buy the ones you like on the website. Unluckily for me, I read in English but can’t get them in English here in Spain. 😢
You are likely right! and thanks for the extra info there are a lot of people in the comments looking to get hold of them. oh no that's such a shame they didn't do both a Spanish and english subscription in Spain!
Yes peacocks on most based on the Hugh Thomson illustrated Peacock Edition from the 1800's. The swans were just on the Clothbound edition, but maybe they are also peacocks I just can't tell haha 😅
Do you have a book stamp/ embosser ? Have you used it on your lovely editions ? I’m so torn between keeping them nice but at the same time I want to make them mine and emboss them !
I don't but also love the idea of them! I always love finding books with inscriptions so I would say go for it. The book itself has a story in relation to you, it's very meta haha.
I've just watched through your video and realised; I'm just about to donate my Austen collection to charity (I've replaced them with a beautiful bind up) and I have Emma in the Zodiac Press, if you'd like it? I'm happy to send any of my editions I'm unhauling to you if you're willing to cover postage? I'm UK based ✨️
So it part of a subscription called Timeless classics, if you head to their website you might be able to see if its in your area www.timeless-classics.co.uk/
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The chair on the PEL edition of Emma is Mr. Knightly’s Chair 🪑❤
This is such a good point! Didn’t think of this thank you 🤍 me thinking it’s a deckchair 😂😂😂
@@Izzymeakin To be fair it does look like one! 😂
Hmmm. What would others on here choose as a motif?
Nice video- very thorough and some gorgeous books. 💕
I've got to go with a basket or strawberry
It's been a hard week at work, and this is exactly what was needed! This truly made me smile - what a wonderful, exquisite collection!
So glad you enjoyed the video and seeing my collection! 📖
Glad you were able to get Timeless Classics even though it was a whole journey🧡. They’re so pretty 😍 and worth it!
Haha me too, looks like you can just buy them from the company as well now so clearly was stressing unnecessarily 😳😂😂
For the Penguin clothbound editions I do take some white paper and improvise a dust jacket to avoid the rubbing and the fingers transpiration to destroy the covers.
I love this idea!
I have only one and has water stains, etc😔. I don't like it because when they get stains they don't go or you can't clean it... But they are beautiful and Unique
I actually found you with this video Izzy. Glad to be able to come back to it a year in.
I’m thinking of collecting the Wordsworth editions and the Timeless Classics edition. My purse is crying 😅…. Your collection is just gorgeous ❤
Did you actually!! Oh my goodness that’s makes me so happy, love having you in the book club squad. I’m sorry it’s costing you a kidney 😂🤍🤍
I found some books from the Cranford collection in my country (Romania) this month. They cost only 7 euros each so I’m very excited to own them. It is a pity that this collection doesn’t come with more classic illustrations for each book.
Thanks for commenting 🤍 I’m so excited they are more wide spread now! I’m also sad there aren’t more illustrations though
Nice collection, Izzy! The vintage ones are great, but require patience and are more expensive to collect. Congrats on the ones you’ve found! You’ve mentioned the illustrated Folio Society ones, which I definitely recommend. For high- end there are also the luxurious, leather-bound Easton Press editions.
Also if you haven’t seen them, there are the Litjoy Classics (embossed black and gold, very beautiful) and there’s a deluxe Pride and Prejudice edition with wonderful watercolour illustrations by Bil Donovan, the chief fashion illustrator for Dior.
Oh my goodness! these all sound great I'm going to look them up now, thank you so much for sharing!
This afternoon I watched the movie "sense and sensibility" and now I would like to read the novel❤
Love that film! You should definitely read the book, I’m sure you will love it :)
Love Jane Austen she was one of the first authors I read and what got me into reading. Thank you for sharing such a lovely collection. I also love looking for the continuation stories to her novels too to see how they have been interpreted.
Welcome kindred spirit! So glad you enjoyed the video 🤍
I had exactly the same journey with the Timeless Classis series. I could only get them in my local Tesco Superstore but after a certain point they seemed to stop stocking them, which was annoying as I really wanted both the JA and the Elizabeth Gaskell sets. I realised that they hadn't stopped, just changed the days they were putting on the shelves and also reducing the number of copies they actually stocked making it virtually impossible to get a copy. Eventually I found out that someone I went to school with was the assistant manager so I persuaded him to put a copy to one side of the titles I wanted. I owe him a million drinks 😂😂😂
Oh my goodness well I'm glad i wasn't alone in the journey 😂 it really was stressful, amazing that you found someone who could help you. I love it when people come together to help each other collect books haha, i was so grateful to Sophie for helping me complete my set! Bookish people have to stick together
Some classy editions. Great books.
Thanks!
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Lovely video!! I want those Cranford Austen's now. It's going to be so hard to source them over here in Australia
They are so beautiful! I hope you are able to get hold of them, or that the subscription comes there 📖🤍
Womanhoo thank you~ absolutely love your collection! Thank you for sharing❤
Thank you! So glad you enjoyed the video!
You win. I read Ms Austen's books each year, but one doesn't have so many different additions. My favourites are Northanger Abbey & Pride & Prejudice, but all are enjoyed by me... Still on a mission to try to read the Bronte family...😐🤓
Haha, I have an insane amount of Austen novels I know! NA and P&P are both sooo good. If you are interested I also have a podcast called What the Austen? where i talk about Jane Austen with guests every other week 🤍
All of your books look so amazingly beautiful ^-^!❤
Thank you!
I’m in the US and had to get the timeless classics pride and prejudice for a ridiculous price off of eBay but i had to have it its so stunning 😂
It is so beautiful! they all are so I totally understand paying more for them
What a beautiful collection. I have the Vintage Classics collection. I have also have Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. And I have a few of their special Virginia Woolf's too. Do you like the Penguin English Library editions? I collect those, I can't afford the clothbound. Though I do get the little ones from Penguin. I have fallen in love with Penguin in the last few years.
Thank you 🤍 I think the paper back english library ones are so pretty! I don't have any, other than the ones I annotate I have focused on hardbacks. They are on my list for the future though. I love that the vintage classics collection was so vast!
@@Izzymeakin I love the covers of Penguin English Library. I love the Vintage ones because they are so comfortable in your hands. And the print size is perfect. The Virginia Woolf collection has really pretty covers too.
I actually filmed a video on my Jane Austen collection (fiction) last weekend! 😅 It will be out next Sunday (another video coming out tomorrow).
That’s cool thanks for sharing, hope you had fun making it :)
@@Izzymeakin I did! But I can't promise my collection will not grow... 😉🤭
Thank you Sam!
Sam is the true hero of the story haha!
I have come across your channel recently. My research has found that RBA, who sell the Timeless Classics, is a Spanish company who also sell these books in the Spanish language. I'm thinking of going for a subscription with them as I don't currently own any of the 45 titles they sell and would like to.
I didn't know that, thanks for sharing! how exciting, they are beautiful books so worth collecting :)
You must have seen them in Spanish, not Italian. Timeless classics were first published in Spain and became incredibly popular, and then they started the issues in the UK. In Spain you can either subscribe or just buy the ones you like on the website. Unluckily for me, I read in English but can’t get them in English here in Spain. 😢
You are likely right! and thanks for the extra info there are a lot of people in the comments looking to get hold of them. oh no that's such a shame they didn't do both a Spanish and english subscription in Spain!
Love this video! Off to get another set of Jane Austen novels! Where is the trolley from?
it was from ikea, they have a few different colours :) You can never have enough Austen copies!
STUNNINGGG collection 🤩 Will you be taking part in the Jane Austen July Readathon next month? ✨️
I don't think I will this year! but I am looking forward to seeing all the bookstagram posts on it :) 🤍
Its peacocks Not swans.....regarding the old edition of pnp
Yes peacocks on most based on the Hugh Thomson illustrated Peacock Edition from the 1800's. The swans were just on the Clothbound edition, but maybe they are also peacocks I just can't tell haha 😅
Do you have a book stamp/ embosser ?
Have you used it on your lovely editions ? I’m so torn between keeping them nice but at the same time I want to make them mine and emboss them !
I don't but also love the idea of them! I always love finding books with
inscriptions so I would say go for it. The book itself has a story in relation to you, it's very meta haha.
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Do you think you can still get hold of the timeless classic collection in WHSmith?
I don't think so! Although if you are in the UK I have started to see them pop up on Vinted! So that's worth a look x
I've just watched through your video and realised; I'm just about to donate my Austen collection to charity (I've replaced them with a beautiful bind up) and I have Emma in the Zodiac Press, if you'd like it? I'm happy to send any of my editions I'm unhauling to you if you're willing to cover postage? I'm UK based ✨️
How to get the cranford collection? I cannot seem how to find a way to purchase it...
So it part of a subscription called Timeless classics, if you head to their website you might be able to see if its in your area www.timeless-classics.co.uk/
No "Lady Susan"?
Not in this video, but I do have some of her shorter works/ unfinished works as well :)
Will you gift me some of your collections? It just doing goosebumps underneath my skin!!! 😢😢
Haha, I couldn't part with my books but I am glad you enjoyed the video and I hope i could give you some inspiration.