/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.22535461]

Folio Society's complete collection of Shakespeare's Plays. Illustrated, comes with a slip-case, limited to 1,000 hand-numbered sets.

$1500

Whose buying it?

https://www.foliosociety.com/usa/the-complete-plays.html

[Anonymous No.22535462]

>>22535461
Not *this* guy lol

[Anonymous No.22535465]

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=shakespear&submit_search=Go%21

[Anonymous No.22535496]

>>22535461
I thought about buying their 8 volume set but I don't need it
I'm building a collection of Arden, Penguin and Signet Shakespeare

[Anonymous No.22535502]

It’s probably nice, but I’d never spend that on it. I like my Riverside a lot, and it gets the job done.

[Anonymous No.22535506]

>>22535461
Modern Folio editions don't even look good. There's a guy in Dublin who sells old second hand ones for €20 each, absolute peak literature experience.

[Anonymous No.22535513]

>>22535461
Does it come with a free fedora?
I bought a single-volume edition of Shakespeare's complete works in paperback from a thrift store. Best £2.99 I ever spent.
You do know his works are out of copyright? Only a retard would pay a premium for them.

[Anonymous No.22535542]

>>22535461
you're disgusting if you buy that

[Anonymous No.22535579]

>>22535461
I bet it isn't even signed.

[Anonymous No.22535608]

>>22535461
ITT anons don’t recognize that it is a status buy. They probably wouldn’t know of such things

[Anonymous No.22535611]

>>22535608
If you need to buy status, it's because you don't have real status.

[Anonymous No.22535624]

>>22535579
It's signed by the illustrator so the-....OH, funny joke! You funny guy~

[Anonymous No.22535630]

>>22535611
No, it’s just to signal it

[Anonymous No.22535634]

>>22535608
How is buying a pricey (but not fine press!) box of Shakespeare going to boost status? Shakespeare isn't going to impress anyone because it's the most generic "cultured" pick possible, like getting into French cuisine, Bach, champagne and Rolex watches after getting some money.

[Anonymous No.22535645]

>>22535461
This looks extremely gaudy, even by modern Folio Society standards.

[Anonymous No.22535647]

>>22535634
Because those things are expensive and poor people don’t own them

[Anonymous No.22535650]

I just want properly made books

[Anonymous No.22535669]

>>22535647
Wealth can be inherited (and usually is). It is no indicator of worth or status.

[Anonymous No.22535674]

>>22535513
>I bought a single-volume edition of Shakespeare's complete works in paperback from a thrift store. Best £2.99
I did the same for the same price online lol, a beautiful red hardback oxford complete edition. I guess there's a retard born every minute.

[Anonymous No.22535695]

>>22535513
>>22535674
Imagine being so poor and proud of being thrifty

[Anonymous No.22535698]

>>22535650
You would have to buy vintage (good deals exist but are time consuming to find) or fine press ($$$)

[Anonymous No.22535704]

If they purified it from Shakespeare’s rambling sexism and reworded sections to challenge the bard's disgusting underrepresentation of coloureds and trannies, I might.

[Anonymous No.22535720]

>>22535669
Money is money. If you have it you have status

[Anonymous No.22535722]

>>22535704
One has to wonder what goes on in the mind of posters like this. An extremely waste of time for the person who typed this and everybody whos reads it

[Anonymous No.22535723]

I demand that Caesar be made a woman named Caesarina – very sure of herself, at peace with her obesity, incapable of heeding any advice made by a man, and bi - and Richard III, a black man who fled his imprisonment and, by sponsoring equality of opportunity and all-embracing land reform, was chosen by cretinous whites – there are no other sort of Caucasians - to be the king. The Plantagenets are now to be known as the Blacktagenets.

[Anonymous No.22535724]

>>22535722
>Extremely waste of time
Nice job Shakespeare

[Anonymous No.22535731]

>>22535722
It is the adrenaline rush you get from baiting people but I doubt he gets many (You)s based on this post

[Anonymous No.22535734]

>>22535731
The false flag bait gives a rush? It’s the passive aggressive way. You aren’t even saying what you want to say

[Anonymous No.22535796]

>>22535695
Retarded arriviste trash. Right now, there's a beautiful first edition of a certain 17th-century tome up on abebooks for the same price that actually would signal status since you're so desperate to.

[Anonymous No.22535801]

>>22535796
Old books are gross

[Anonymous No.22535819]

>>22535796
I'm not desperate. You're the penny pinch who makes his acquisitions topic of conversation; I let mine speak for themselves.

[Anonymous No.22535911]

>>22535608
It's not even a status buy, it's just a way for people with disposable income to spend more of their money. Materialism has rotted people's brains to the point where they feel obligated to consume whenever they have the money for it, no matter how illogical the purchase is. It's the same mindset that drug addicts have.

[Anonymous No.22535918]

>>22535801
This
They've always got foxing on the pages, yellowed to shit, disintegrating with a terrible smell the leather cover just barely holding together but parts of it come off when you touch it
Disgusting

[Anonymous No.22535924]

>>22535918
Yeah plus people will just think you raided your dead grandfather’s estate sale, not a big dick status buy

[Anonymous No.22535934]

>>22535911
What do you suppose they should do with their money? Deny themselves and hoard it indefinitely? Moreover, spending it is good for the economy so they're also keeping the 'sensible' types like you afloat.

[Anonymous No.22535946]

>>22535934
>Why shouldn't I spend a quarter of my income on alcohol? It's not like I'm using the money for anything else, and drinking makes me feel good :)
Buy a used collection for $5 and donate the rest if you're so eager to empty your pockets. Same books, and rather than feed the economy that's buck breaking you your money will be helping actual people

[Anonymous No.22535950]

>>22535946
Lol yeah okay sure Mr. Singer

[Anonymous No.22536472]

I hate this.

Because I know if I had the money, I would waste it on stupid shit like this

[Anonymous No.22536851]

>>22535461
That slipcase looks THICC

[Anonymous No.22536871]

>>22535461
that looks like one of those awful Barns and Nobel hardcovers. Is Folio Society run by trannies now or something? Why are all their new releases so ugly?

[Anonymous No.22537018]

>>22535608
Buying a modern reprint """"""first"""""""" edition isn't a status buy. It's a basedboy funkopop purchase.

A status buy would be buying an original folio of Shakespeare's works, or editions printed in the 17th century.

[Anonymous No.22537212]

>>22535461
Only if its in Elephant hide

[Anonymous No.22538412]

>>22537212
What the absolute fuck am I looking at?

[Anonymous No.22538432]

>>22538412
>Filtered by a dumb meme image

[Anonymous No.22538443]

>>22535461
I bought a single book paperback for literally two British pounds. Words are words.

[Anonymous No.22538458]

>>22537212
Kek I remember this

[Anonymous No.22538853]

>>22538412
You had to be there.

[Anonymous No.22539381]

>needing anything beyond the Pelican Shakespeare

[Anonymous No.22539479]

>>22537212
Was waiting for this to be posted

[Anonymous No.22539640]

>>22535461
I bought a hardback single volume complete collection of Shakespeare's plays from barnes and noble for $8. You're a retard if you buy that.

[Anonymous No.22540355]

>>22539381
How much does a good copy cost?

[Anonymous No.22540361]

>>22535819

[Anonymous No.22540426]

>>22535634
Bach is only midwit if you only know his small ensemble pieces. You can tell someone's a big brain if they know a lot of his organ works.

[Anonymous No.22540430]

No. If they were leather bound and had a treasure of annotations and supplements then maybe. I wouldn’t pay that much for books that don’t look beautiful and whose chief supplement is illustrations unless they somehow managed to contract William Blake from the dead or something.

[Anonymous No.22540565]

Let me guess, you "need" more...

[Anonymous No.22540574]

>>22535608

[Anonymous No.22540581]

>>22535608
>literally the kind of people that buy brands instead of quality

[Anonymous No.22540583]

>>22535608
>status
>not a fine press actually fancy edition
>shitty moneygrab for people who buy fake "status" with brands

[Anonymous No.22540590]

>>22535634
it's worse for this collection, even.
it's like buying a fake rolex for status, but paying the price of a real one.

[Anonymous No.22540592]

>>22540590
FO is a fine press

And if you disagree, I'm gonna need you to define "fine press"

[Anonymous No.22540648]

>>22540592
Actually fancy like gilded hardbacks with proper work; gold-ddtailed clothbounds and actually good bookbinding.

A glorified funko version of a collection with a cardboard "cover" for all the books is just lame.
and they're asking for such a premium that you could buy an actually important early version for the price.

[Anonymous No.22540691]

But I've already got my Collins' 1973 edition of 'The Complete Works of William Shakespeare', in red hardback with illustrations by Eric Fraser, that my granddad bought for £1 from a book sale at his local bowls pavilion

>pic not mine, but the same copy

[Anonymous No.22541252]

>>22540691
Is he trying to suck a dick

[Anonymous No.22541838]

>>22541252
no, but I gladly will (for a fee)

[Anonymous No.22542446]

>>22540648
They aren't all 'cardboard' covers
They do have good bindings
The paper is excellent
Gilding is not necessary for all books nor is having gold tooling
You cannot buy any important editions of Shakespeare for that price at least not in readable condition

[Anonymous No.22542467]

It's interesting that they switched from using the Oxford text for their 8 volume edition of Shakespeare to using the Arden text for this one

[Anonymous No.22543221]

>>22540691
Shouldn't there be an illustration-protection paper in-between?

[Anonymous No.22544203]

>>22535461
for me it's oxford shakespeare

[Anonymous No.22544298]

>>22542467
When you upgrade the case, you should also upgrade the stock

[Anonymous No.22544722]

>>22535461
>$875.00

[Anonymous No.22544738]

>>22535461
Folio has released like 50 different versions of the complete Shakespeare. Just because it's 1 of 1000 doesn't really mean it's exclusive. You're better off spending $20 on this:
https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Works-William-Shakespeare-Cambridge/dp/B0024JG5AO

[Anonymous No.22544764]

Norton Critical if the source material and/or essays are of interest; Signet Classic paperback otherwise. Simple as.

[Anonymous No.22544768]

>>22544764
>Signet

[Anonymous No.22544797]

Why are the covers and case so ugly?

[Anonymous No.22544878]

>>22543221
no it makes it harder to eat

[Anonymous No.22544984]

>>22544797
I find them quite handsome, not sure what your problem is

[Anonymous No.22545000]

>>22542446
>You cannot buy any important editions of Shakespeare for that price at least not in readable condition
also affirming that yours is a frivolous one and therefore not worth the price.

[Anonymous No.22545055]

>>22535461
Artificial scarcity. No thank you.

I own one Folio Society set of books - Plutarch's Parallel Lives. They are presented chronologically instead of in parallel, which defeats the entire purposes of the set. Folio Society can go fuck themselves. I have no interest in their funco books.

[Anonymous No.22545146]

What is it about these "fancy" editions that makes /lit/ lose their collective mind?

[Anonymous No.22545290]

Single volume Complete Shakespeare, what edition should I go for? Norton Critical? RSC? Riverside? Alexander? Arden? Does it really matter or should i just get the cheapest one?

[Anonymous No.22545346]

>>22545290
If I was doing it all over again I would get individual plays because the complete works is too cumbersome unless you are reading at a desk, and plus many superfluous plays like the histories are shit and don’t need to be read

[Anonymous No.22545519]

>>22545346
>many superfluous plays like the histories are shit and don’t need to be read
Wow. How wrong you are. Without the Henrys we would have no Falstaff, and Falstaff is one of the great Shakespearean characters.

[Anonymous No.22546810]

>>22545346
retard take

[Anonymous No.22547446]

>>22540355
Retails new for over $60, but I got mine for $15.

[Anonymous No.22547470]

>>22545346
This

[Anonymous No.22547481]

>>22545290
Norton is fine
Some people hate it but for the price (I paid $10 for mine in perfect condition) it is worth having
The Riverside is better but not for significantly more than $30-40
Also the Arden is just the plain text although it is the highest quality book in terms of the binding

[Anonymous No.22547485]

>>22545290
Pelican for single-volume, Arden for individuals.

[Anonymous No.22548117]

>>22544722
Edge staining is an unforgivable crime

[Anonymous No.22548415]

>>22548117
It's fine when done well, but yes, I agree that the Folio's staining looks like fucking neon highlighter

[Anonymous No.22548468]

>>22535934
Invest or spend it productively and spend the rest on creating memories with friends and family. conspicuous consumption is middle class niggermmagpie brain.
There's a book called bobos In Paradise that covers this phenomena, basically the sort of chump that would laugh at a poor family spending £5k on a TV but would then spend £20k on a slate lined bathroom or first editions.

[Anonymous No.22548472]

>>22535461
>limited to 1,000 hand-numbered sets
Numbered by Shakespeare himself? If not, who cares about hand numbering? Absolute nonsense.

[Anonymous No.22548486]

>>22545000
I do not consider the importance of a volume to be something that I particularly value
For example, I would rather have a clean edition of a hardback than a first edition of a hardback for the same price
All I care about is the price and whether the materials and conditions of the book are good

[Anonymous No.22548500]

>>22535461
The old riverside prints are like $40 and look nicer on a shelf.

[Anonymous No.22548525]

>>22548486
easily found without paying a premium of about 100 times the cost of making it.
Alongside the fake "scarcity" of the folios.
it's literally funko pops but for books.

[Anonymous No.22548545]

>>22548525
Well the thing is, the fact that they're the only ones producing this specific book at this level of quality does allow them to gouge a bit
If I want a multivolume set (but not individual plays) of Shakespeare that is well made I don't have many choices and therefore Folio Society can charge me more
Ok so lets take your point about fake scarcity
Firstly the appeal as far as I can see with Funko pops is purely with their scarcity, they do not have any real value in comparison to say, the Japanese statue companies
Folio society have the quality as a part of their appeal as well as the scarcity (unfortunately)
Secondly with the limited edition runs, I'm pretty sure they're all done by lower throughput companies who don't mass produce their books in the same way that Folio books typically are, but I may be wrong about that
t. have 4 folio society books that I bought for $4, $4, $8 and $15 and only used Shakespeare editions in my collection

[Anonymous No.22548653]

>>22540426
yea, or if they are actually able to perform and/or analyze the pieces.

[Anonymous No.22549630]

>>22548500
>riverside
>nice

[Anonymous No.22550089]

Just buy a copy of Shakespeare from the 1800s off ebay. Its age gives it more worth than a stupid modern "limited edition."

[Anonymous No.22550480]

>>22550089
Go ahead and type in "Shakespeare 1800s" into Ebay, look at those prices, then tell me you're not a Jew

[Anonymous No.22550527]

>>22550480
I did so.
>$21.95 is a Jewish price

[Anonymous No.22550543]

>>22550089
Books from the 1800’s are gross

[Anonymous No.22550716]

>>22535461
Depends. Is it made from Elephant Hide?

[Anonymous No.22550869]

>>22550527
I said what I said, David

[Anonymous No.22551258]

>>22550716
Still can’t even fathom what they were thinking with that? Just pure English pride?

[Anonymous No.22552610]

>>22549630
Yes, Riverside, nice, thanks for repeating that back to me

[Anonymous No.22553811]

>>22535461
Buy an ad.

[Anonymous No.22554875]

>>22535461
It's letter pressed and is silk covered. Overpriced but not by much.
I'd only make sense if you're a rich prick who wants to pretend he's sophisticated or are obsessed with Shakespeare

[Anonymous No.22555098]

>>22554875
I’ve always seen Folios and fine press or collector editions as for those writers and books you cherish

[Anonymous No.22555121]

What is the cheapest price I can pay for a book made in this way?

[Anonymous No.22555971]

>>22555121
About tree fiddy

[Anonymous No.22556635]

>>22555121
Letterpressed? Suntup's Charlie and the chocolate factory for $200.
The average letterpressed book will cost you $1000-$2000, due to the process, pages and materials used.
Look at suntup press's lettered editions for good examples of such books. They put far more attention to the materials used and design at that range of books than Folio.

For general cloth bounded books with good papers and binding, it is as cheap as £40 from folio, though usually costs £120-200.

[Anonymous No.22557944]

>>22535461
What IS the best Edition of Shakespeare's complete works, then.

And I mean a feasible not ludicrously expensive one.