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Collectible Color Plates: Color Your Shelf

There's fiction and fairy tales, exploration and architecture, and an extensive selection of flora and fauna - all with the memorable color plates.

Parrots in Captivity by W.T. Greene Trending to Maine by Kenneth Roberts & illustrated by N.C. Wyeth Fables of Aesop illustrated by Edward J. Detmold The History of the Abbey Church of St. Peter's Westminster, Its Antiquities and Monuments by R. Ackermann Tell Me Why Stories by C.H. Claudy & illustrated by Norman Rockwell

 

Just Rudyard Kipling
Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling was inspired by the places, people and wildlife he encountered on his travels. Mowgli to Shere Khan - he created timeless characters and stories that won't be forgotten.

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Hidden Gems: Fore-edge Paintings
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence

Who says art has to stay inside a book? Since the 16th century, painters have been creating masterpieces on the edges of book pages.

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Unusual Bindings
The Professor at the Breakfast-table; with The Story of Iris by Oliver Wendell Holmes

As if books weren't interesting enough already, these volumes skip leather and cloth in favor of extraordinary methods and materials. Creative bookbinders have explored some unlikely media.

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Cecil Beaton's Stylish Legacy
A Star Danced by Gertrude Lawrence

He photographed the world's rich and famous for six decades. He designed Oscar-winning costumes for My Fair Lady and Gigi. Cecil Beaton led a remarkable life and was an avid diarist.

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