/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.6617510]

What is the most aesthetic publishing house?

My vote goes to Harvard University Press for their Loeb Classical Library.

[Anonymous No.6617511]

New Directions

[Anonymous No.6617517]

Knopf is usually on point.

[Anonymous No.6617524]

I prefer Everyman's Library

[Anonymous No.6617529]

>>6617511
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>>6617524
Post examples of your preferred publishing house.

[Anonymous No.6617544]

[Anonymous No.6617545]

La Pléiade - Gallimard

[Anonymous No.6617549]

>>6617544
Dear God that looks horrible. Does the front have those gold lines as well?

[Anonymous No.6617569]

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>>6617510
Rizzoli New York
Taschen
Folio Society

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>>6617544
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>>6617569
Do you guys happen to know which one out of the Gallimard and Hachette editions of Mallarmé's complete poetry is the superior anthology?

[Anonymous No.6617584]

>>6617569
Ok that looks very nice

[Anonymous No.6617965]

The quality is quite bad but the Barnes & Noble classic series looks very pretty

[Anonymous No.6618609]

>>6617965
terrible

[Anonymous No.6618617]

My personal preference is Everyman's Library. I really dig the minimalist aspect.

>>6617965
Wow, those look so flashy and bad. I gotta admit though, I did like them at a couple of years ago. But then I learned the quality is shit.

Also, I'm pretty sure Dracula is just a bit shorter than the rest, which makes things even worse.

[Anonymous No.6618629]

>>6617965
entry-level graphic designer font kiddy newb pile of shit garbage

[Anonymous No.6618640]

The Hetzel edition of Jules Vernes book was quite nice

[Anonymous No.6618647]

>>6617510
Hello OP, I agree with you, and in particular the stuff on the left. Working with those tomes a lot - the best ones are the fiery red ones with a gold print on them - they are oozing the prestige of Classics. Love reading Ammianus in them

[Anonymous No.6618650]

>>6617965
The quality varies. I've seen divine comedy and complete poe ones that look like shit but I have a Hemingway one and I really like it.

[Anonymous No.6618665]

I really like NYRB classics

[ΟΥΤΙΣ No.6618666]

Folio Society. Although their children's books are often hideously gaudy.

[Anonymous No.6618673]

I love this series, the quality/durability of the paperbacks are better than anything else in the price range as well

[Anonymous No.6618674]

>>6617965
reddit tier taste

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Augustine

[Anonymous No.6618723]

>>6618690
I have this exact version and I love it

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[Anonymous No.6618759]

>>6617544
could i cop some of those off you

[Anonymous No.6618784]

>>6617965
They look good to me. Fuck da haters.

[Anonymous No.6619025]

>>6617510
I actually just asked my parents for a few copies of those for my graduation present. I'm primarily interested in Virgil's Georgics and Ecologues, Caesar's Gallic Wars and the Illiad, which I have never before before but to have the English and Greek right next to each other should make it a good first experience

[Anonymous No.6619053]

>>6619025
It probably won't so much matter for those volumes but beware that until recently Loeb didn't do a good job regularly updating their texts. Like the Hesiod was in print from early in the series in the 1920s to about 2005. That means not only are the texts sometimes less corrected than what we have now (and the old ones rarely include an extensive apparatus criticus, list of alternate manuscript/editorial readings) but, more important for you, the translations are very old-fashioned - poetry over accuracy, squeamish on sexual matters, etc. It's good to check the loeb site (Amazon lies since they list reprint dates) before getting any volume to see when it was first released and whether another edition is in the works. They put out ~7-10 volumes a year now since the new editor realized what a bad rep they were getting about being out of date.

[Anonymous No.6619108]

>>6619053
I do remember my Latin teacher saying that they did not have a strict interpretation of the text, but I can read the Latin well enough that the English would only serve to supplement tricky passages. I'll probably be more dependent on the translation for the Greek, though.

[Anonymous No.6619185]

Diogenes Verlag

[Anonymous No.6619250]

>>6617510
Ma nigga

[Anonymous No.6619373]

>>6618617
The covers feel abrasive to me, but the quality of the text was high.

[Anonymous No.6619381]

>>6618713
Wow, that looks great.

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[Anonymous No.6619442]

>>6619411
Only have one Folio book, got it from ebay and the cover has a stain that the seller failed to mention.
I really like their covers, although some are a bit.
Might buy pic related soon.

[Anonymous No.6619450]

>>6619442
a bit over-designed, I meant to say.

[Anonymous No.6619478]

Loeb & Everyman with a tasteful sprinkle of Folio. Just got a great Folio Peloponnesian Wars.

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>>6619450
Yeah, they clearly have a variety of designers. A couple of them like garish colors that look like Barnes and Noble shit, and some like overly busy and embellished shit. But when it's one of the good designers, it's very good.

[Anonymous No.6619544]

>>6617510
https://kat.cr/loeb-classical-library-iii-432-520-still-incomplete-t10408736.html