The Folio Society Ltd was founded in 1947 by Alan Bott, Charles Ede & Christopher Sandford. It sold books by mail order, offering a gift presentation volume as an inducement. It was based at 1-5 Poland Street, Oxford Street, W1 in 1950

1947
Tolstoy : TALES - Elizabeth Macfadyen
George Du Maurier : TRILBY - Du Maurier
AUCASSIN & NICOLETTE - Lettice Sandford

1948
William Shakespeare : SONNETS - Reynolds Stone
Voltaire : CANDIDE - Kenneth Hobson
De Quincey : CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM EATER - Blair Hughes-Stanton
Gautier : MADEMOISELLE DE MAUPIN - Mark Severin
Jonathan Swift : THE VOYAGES OF LEMUEL GULLIVER - Edward Bawden
Rupert Brooke : POEMS - John Buckland-Wright
Anatole France : THE CRIME OF SYLVESTRE BONNARD - H Hope Reed
Homer : THE ODYSSEY - John Buckland-Wright
R L Stevenson : DR JEKYLL & MR HYDE - Mervyn Peake

1949
Richard Sheridan : THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL - Cecil Beaton
Laurence Sterne : A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY - Oliver Warner
Isaac Walton : THE COMPLEAT ANGLER - Lynton Lamb
ARABIAN LOVE TALES - Lettice Sandford
Anthony Trollope : THE PARSON'S DAUGHTER - Joan Hassall
Shelley : POEMS - John Buckland-Wright
Prosper Merimee : CARMEN - Paintings Goya
Brothers Grimm : FOLK TALES - Cruikshank

1950
W M Thackeray : THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND - Clarke Hutton
John Keats : POEMS - Dorothy Braby
Gustave Flaubert : SALAMBO - Ru Van Rossem
Voltaire : VOLTAIRE'S ENGLAND - Hogarth prints
Homer : THE ILIAD - John Buckland-Wright
Shakespeare : ROMEO AND JULIET - Jean Hugo
Surtees : MR SPONGE'S SPORTING TOUR - John Leech
Prevost : MANON LESCAULT - Valentin Le Campion
Herman Melville : TYPEE - Jacques Boulleix

1951
Congreve : INCOGNITA - Ru Van Rossem
Wilkie Collins : THE MOONSTONE - Edwin La Dell
Shakespeare : MACBETH - Michael Ayrton
Surtees : HANDLEY CROSS - John Leech
Hugh Walpole : LETTERS - with contemporary engravings
Harold Nicolson : SOME PEOPLE - Phillipe Julian
MARY GRESLEY AND OTHER STORIES - Joan Hassall
Emily Bronte : THE COMPLETE POEMS - Sem Hertz
Stephen Crane : RED BADGE OF COURAGE - illus with Civil War photos
THE NEWGATE CALENDAR - with contemporary engravings
Crebillon : THE SOFA - Robert Bonfils

1952
Tacitus : THE REIGN OF NERO - Eric Fraser
Oliver Goldsmith : VICAR OF WAKEFIELD - Margaret Wetherbee
Gustave Flaubert : MADAME BOVARY - Grava Sala
Hogg : MEMOIRS OF PRINCE ALEXY HAIMATOFF - Douglas Percy Bliss
Shakespeare : TRAGEDY OF ANTHONY AND CLEOPATRA - Cruddas and Furse
Symons : THE QUEST FOR CORVO - Sem Hertz
Trelawny : LAST DAYS OF SHELLEY AND BYRON - illus with contemporary portraits & engravings
Surtees : MR FACEY ROMFORD'S HOUNDS - John Leech
Joseph Conrad : TWO TALES OF THE CONGO - Dolf Rieser
Charles Dickens : A TALE OF TWO CITIES - Richard Sharp
BOOK OF PSALMS - Helen E Hinkley

1953
Malory : LANCELOT & GUINEVERE - Lettice Sandford
Aphra Benn : TWO TALES - Iris Francis
Shakespeare : AS YOU LIKE IT - Salvador Dali
Henry Fielding : JOSEPH ANDREWS - Derrick Harris
EASTERN LOVE POEMS - Ru Van Rossem
Norman Douglas : IN THE BEGINNING - Richard Sharp
R S Surtees : PLAIN OR RINGLETS - John Leech
Honore de Balzac : EUGENIE GRANDET - Dodie Masterman
Louis De Rouvray : LOUIS XIV AT VERSAILLES - Goor
Emlyn Williams : READINGS FROM DICKENS - Barnett Freedman
Oscar Wilde : THE YOUNG KING & OTHER STORIES - John Gostra

1954
DRAKE'S RAID ON THE TREASURE TRAINS - Geoffrey Wales
Daniel Defoe : MOLL FLANDERS - Nigel Lambourne
Wilkie Collins : TALES OF SUSPENSE - Anne Scott
RESTORATION CARNIVAL : FIVE COURTIER POETS - T L Poulton
Timothy Gowing : VOICES FROM THE RANKS - with contemporary engravings
Longus : THE PASTORAL WORKS OF DAPHNIS & CHLOE - Marcel Vertes
Surtees : ASK MAMA - John Leech
Shakespeare : THE TRAGEDY OF HAMLET - Roger Furse
Daudet : SAPPHO - Susan Einzig
Ippolito Nievo : THE CASTLE OOOF FRATTA - Eric Fraser
Boccaccio : THE DECAMERON - John Buckland-Wright

1955
George Robertson : THE DISCOVERY OF TAHITI - Robert Gibbings
Boccaccio : THE DECAMERON : 2nd FIVE DAYS - John Buckland-Wright
Maxim Gorki : THE ARTAMONOUS - Peter Pendrey
Tobias Smollett : HUMPHRY CLINKER - Derrick Harris
Clery & Firmant : A JOURNAL OF THE TERROR - illus contemporary prints
Du Maupassant : BEL-AMI - Alistair Grant
Shakespeare : OTHELLO - Tanya Moiseiwitsch
Surtees : HAWBRUCK GRANGE - Phiz
Ned Ward : THE LONDON SPY - illus with contemporary engravings
D H Lawrence : THE VIRGIN AND THE GYPSY - Dodie Masterman
RUAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM - illus with Persian miniatures
Emily Eden : THE SEMI-ATTACHED COUPLE - Dorothea Braby

1956
MEMOIRS OF MADAME DU BARRY - William Russell
Wilkie Collins : THE WOMAN IN WHITE - Lynton Lamb
THornton Wilder : THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY - Frank Martin
THE TRIAL OF JOAN OF ARC - Illus with early woodcuts
Ann Radcliffe : THE CONFESSIONAL OF THE BLACK PENITENTS - Philip Ross
Daisy Ashford : THE YOUNG VISITERS - Diana Brough
Shakespeare : THE TRAGEDY OF KING LEAR - Isamu Noguchi
Surtees : HILLINGDON HALL - Wildrake, Heath & Jellicoe
Robert Southey : LIFE OF NELSON - illus with contemporary engravings
Emile Zola : NAN - Marcel Vertes
Walter de la Mare : GHOST STORIES - Barnett Freedman
Chaucer : THE CANTERBURY TALES : VOL 1 - Edna Whyte

1957
Oscar Wilde : SALOME - Frank Martin
Chaucer : THE CANTERBURY TALES : VOL 2 - Edna Whyte
Edgar Allan Poe : TALES OF MYSTERY & IMAGINATION - Michael Ayrton
HOGARTH'S ENGLAND - Hogarth etchings
Jane Austen : PRIDE & PREJUDICE - Joan Hassall

1958
William Beckford : VATHEK - Edward Bawden
Arthur Conan Doyle : THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES - Paul Hogarth
Shakespeare : KING RICHARD II - Loudon Sainthill
Henri Toulouse-Lautrec : PARIS ALBUM - reproductions by Lautrec

1959
Jane Austen : MANSFIELD PARK - Joan Hassall
G K Chesterton : FATHER BROWN STORIES - Edward Ardizzone

1960
Vincent Van Gogh : PORTRAIT OF PROVENCE - reproductions of Van Gogh paintings
Edgar Degas : BALLET DANCERS - reproductions by Degas
Jane Austen : NORTHANGER ABBEY - Joan Hassall
Oscar Wilde : THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST - Cecil Beaton

1961
Honore de Balzac : DROLL STORIES - Mervyn Peake
Jane Austen : PERSUASION - Joan Hassall
Pablo Picasso : FOUR THEMES - Picasso reproductions

1962
Gilbert White : THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE - John Piper
Jane Austen : EMMA - Joan Hassall
Henry James : WASHINGTON SQUARE - Lynton Lamb

1963
Rembrandt van Rijn : PAINTGS, DRAWINGS, ETCHINGS - plates by Rembrandt
Jane Austen : SHORTER WORKS - Joan Hassall

1964
Emily Bronte : WUTHERING HEIGHTS - Charles Keeping

1965
Charlotte Bronte : JANE EYRE - Anthony Colbert
Jonathan Swift : GULLIVER'S TRAVELS - Edward Bawden
Peirre Renoir : PAINTINGS, DRAWINGS, LITHOGRAPHS & ETCHINGS - Renoir
James Joyce : A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTISTS AS A YOUNG A MAN - Dodie Masterman

1966
Anne Bronte : THE TENANT OF WILDFRELL HALL - Julian Trevelyan
Canaletto : PAINTINGS, DRAWINGS & ETCHINGS - Canaletto

1967
Robert Louis Stevenson : TRAVELS WITH A DONKEY - Edward Ardizzone
Charlotte Bronte : VILETTE - Clarke Hutton

1968
Various Authors : THE NORTHANGER SET OF JANE AUSTEN HORRID NOVELS - 7 vols
Charlotte Bronte : SHIRLEY - Walter Hoyle

1969
Anne Bronte : AGNES GREY - Anthony Moore
Joyce Cary : THE HORSE'S MOUTH - John Bratby
Albrecht Durer : PAINTING, DRAWINGS & PRINTS - Durer

1970
Laurence Sterne : Tristram Shandy - John Lawrence
Leo Tolstoy : WAR & PEACE - 2 vols. Feliks Topolski
also a Ltd Ed of 2000 sets in slipcase, 2 vols

1971
Francisco Goya : PAINTINGS, DRAWINGS & PRINTS - Goya
Siegfried Sassoon : MEMOIRS OF A FOX-HUNTING MAN - Lynton Lamb

1972
Dylan Thomas : UNDER MILK WOOD - Ceri Richards
George Eliot : MIDDLEMARCH - Robin Jacques

1973
M R James : GHOST STORIES - Charles Keeping
E m Forster : HOWARDS END - Jennifer Campbell

1974
Siegfried Sassoon : MEMOIRS OF AN INFANTRY OFFICER - Lynton Lamb
Siegfried Sassoon : SHERSTON'S PROGRESS - John Lawrence

1975
Samuel Johnson : THE HISTORY OF RASSELAS - Edward Bawden

1976
Anthony Trollope : THE WARDEN - Peter Reddick
Saki : SHORT STORIES - Sir Osbert Lancaster
Jean Cocteau : LES ENFANTS TERRIBLES - Cocteau
Pierce Egan : BOXIANA - OR SKETCHES OF ANCIENT & MODERN PUGILISM -
contemporary engravings
Bruce Campbell : THE BIRD PAINTINGS OF HENRY JONES - 500 numbered
Lewis Carroll : THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK - Quentin Blake
Horace Walpole : THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO - Charles Keeping
J R R Tolkien : THE HOBBIT - Author

1977
Stella Gibbons : COLD COMFORT FARM - Quentin Blake
J R R Tolkien : THE LORD OF THE RINGS - 3 vols. Eric Fraser

1978
Saki : THE UNBEARABLE BASSINGTON - Osbert Lancaster
Arthur Morison : THE HOLE IN THE WALL - Val Biro
THE EXETER RIDDLE BOOK - Virgil Burnett

1979
J R R Tolkien : THE HOBBIT - Eric Fraser

Since 1980
1980 - John Clare : BIRD POEMS - Thomas Bewick
1981 - Thomas Bewick : MY LIFE - Thomas Bewick
1983 - P G Wodehouse : SHORT STORIES - George Adamson
1984 - George Orwell : ANIMAL FARM - Quentin Blake
1986 - Aldous Huxley : THE DEVILS OF LONDON - John Bratby
1986 - A E Housman : A SHROPSHIRE LAD - Patrick Procktor
1988 - J Sheridan Le Fanu : UNCLE SILAS - Charles Stewart
1988 - Charles Dickens : CHRISTMAS BOOKS - Charles Keeping
1989 - Raymond Chandler : THE COMPLETE NOVELS - 7 vols. frontis Sue Bradbury
1990 - Eveleyn Waugh : SWORD OF HONOUR - 3 vols. John Lawrence]
1996 - P G Wodehouse : JEEVES AND WOOSTER - 6 vols. Paul Cox
1997 - Charles Stewart : GHOST STORIES - Edited and illustrated by Charles Stewart. £24.95

READING
Folio 21 : A Bibliography of the Folio Society 1947-1967 (1968 Folio Society)
Folio 40 : A Checklist of the Publications of the Folio Society 1947-1987 (1987 Folio Society)