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| Astrophel Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5722 days ago 157 posts - 345 votes  Speaks: English*, Latin, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Cantonese, Polish, Sanskrit, Cherokee | Message 1 of 5 02 December 2011 at 11:12pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm wondering if something like the Folio Society exists in other languages, particularly German. I'd love to have some of those illustrated editions in the original language...
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| Sunja Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6075 days ago 2020 posts - 2295 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 2 of 5 03 December 2011 at 3:05pm | IP Logged | ||
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For German:
This online directory ZVAB has rare books in orignal form. It's a lot of fun to browse through the various subjects. I don't think there's one place where you can get newly published original editions. Not to say the books wouldn't be worth publishing again, I'm just not sure if there's a big enough market for such a thing. What you could do is try searching a German book by title and adding the words "Originalfassung", or "Originalausgabe". Sometimes Amazon.de will carry books in the old form-- like the Grimms Märchen hope that helps.. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Astrophel Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5722 days ago 157 posts - 345 votes Speaks: English*, Latin, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Cantonese, Polish, Sanskrit, Cherokee | Message 3 of 5 03 December 2011 at 11:04pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm not looking for reprints of first editions, just pretty books in their original language.
Just imagine this, only in the original Latin. Or similar treatment given to Goethe, Proust, etc. I'm a sucker for nice books, and while there's several publishers printing books of this quality in English, I haven't seen anything comparable in other languages. For anyone who might be interested, Folio Society does occasionally put out bilingual texts...I have a lovely illustrated edition of Horace's Odes from them that has Latin and English on facing pages. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tractor Tetraglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5443 days ago 1349 posts - 2292 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, Catalan Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 4 of 5 04 December 2011 at 4:15am | IP Logged | ||
There are some beautiful, high quality books published in other languages as well. However, I don't know of any non-English language publishers who specialises in this the same way as the Folio Society. I have a few books from Folio, and the quality is excellent in all regards: the paper, the binding, the typography, the illustrations etc. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| fomalhaut Groupie United States Joined 4893 days ago 80 posts - 101 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 5 of 5 10 December 2011 at 8:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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i really really like Diogenes, their layout for every book looks nice. But you seem to be looking for super specialty stuff, i'd never pay $200 even for a Book of Hours
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