Buy this book on-line GALSWORTHY, JOHN: : THE FORSYTE SAGA - 3 VolsLONDON.THE FOLIO SOCIETY,1984. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,Royal 8vo HB 3 vols+s/case.1st edn thus.[The three volumes were first originally published in 1906,1920 and 1921 respectively,and were first reprinted
as the 'saga' in 1922.This is the first Folio Society edn/issue thus.Some copies were issued in a special binding of full red-brown morocco,with a red-brown cloth-covered slip case.] FINE+/FINE.No owner inscrptn,no dw/dj -slipcased - as issued.
The three volumes are as follows: [1] The Forsyte Saga,The man of property. Pp.[1-4] 5-406 [407-408]: [5] leaves of colour lithographic plates (facing pp.[1], 48, 192,273 and 397).The bds and endleaves are
printed in red-brown.In addition to the plates there are 14 full-page drawings,and
12 head- and tail-pieces by Anthony Gross,
printed from line-blocks in the text.[2] The Forsyte Saga,In Chancery.Pp.[1-2] 4-310 [311-312]: [4] leaves of colour lithographic plates (facing pp.[1],160, 234 and 276).The bds and endleaves are printed in blue-green.In addition to the plates there are 9 full-page drawings,and 14 head- and tail-pieces by Anthony Gross,
printed from line-blocks in the text.[3] The Forsyte Saga,To Let.Pp.[1-2] 3-268 [269-272]: [3] leaves of colour and monochrome lithographic plates (facing pp.[1],129 and 244).the bds and endleaves are printed in green.In addition to the plates there are five full-page drawings, and 14 head and tail-pieces by Anthony Gross,printed from line-blocks in the text.Typeset in Monotype Perpetua (13-pt).
Printed by New Western Printing,the lithographs by Cowell.Bound by Butler and Tanner in quarter orange canvas,cream paper boards patterned in a different colour for each volume; cream endleaves decorated in the same colour as the boards,and bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and brown+ cream(?) headbands.Blue and cream three-volume paper-covered card slipcase patterned in blue.The illustrations by Anthony Gross are taken from an edition published by Heinemann in 1950; his drawings are also used on the endleaves and the slipcase.
The Forsyte Saga contains three novels and two short stories.It's subject is the way money-making and commercial endeavour atrophy the emotions.Three generations of Forsytes are morally tainted by their family's business success,in particular Soames and his unhappy wife Irene.Every boardroom victory is balanced by a bedroom
defeat; children inherit not only wealth, but the poisoned character which goes with
it.To Let,the 3rd volume of the saga,is a Romeo and Juliet story with a devastating final twist.
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