A few years later she settled in Nassau County, Long Island, where she died in 1924 and is buried in Roslyn Cemetery. She divorced Swan Burnett in 1898, married Stephen Townsend in 1900, and divorced Townsend in 1902. Her oldest son, Lionel, died of tuberculosis in 1890, which caused a relapse of the depression she had struggled with for much of her life. Beginning in the 1880s, she began to travel to England frequently and in the 1890s bought a home there where she wrote The Secret Garden. She wrote and helped to produce stage versions of Little Lord Fauntleroy and A Little Princess.īurnett enjoyed socializing and lived a lavish lifestyle. Little Lord Fauntleroy was published in 1886 and made her a popular writer of children's fiction, although her romantic adult novels written in the 1890s were also popular. The Burnetts lived for two years in Paris, where their two sons were born, before returning to the United States to live in Washington, D.C., Burnett then began to write novels, the first of which (That Lass o' Lowrie's), was published to good reviews. In 1870 her mother died, and in 1872 Frances married Swan Burnett, who became a medical doctor. There Frances began writing to help earn money for the family, publishing stories in magazines from the age of 19. After her father died in 1852, the family fell on straitened circumstances and in 1865 immigrated to the United States, settling near Knoxville, Tennessee. She is best known for the three children's novels Little Lord Fauntleroy (published in 1885–1886), A Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1911).įrances Eliza Hodgson was born in Cheetham, England. Where possible, the relevant isbns for these rare editions are listed below to help you find them if you’re completing a collection.Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (24 November 1849 – 29 October 1924) was an American-English novelist and playwright. Great Expectations covers can look navy or blue-black), and the earliest printings on the first 10 books are differentiated by having numbers on the spines (as you can see in the image above) which later printings lack. In addition, some books were reprinted with slightly differing cloth covers (e.g. If you include the out-of-series volumes, the Tibetan Book of the Dead is also very hard to track down. Several of the India Special Editions are currently out of print, as are the Proust series. The 2008 edition of Madame Bovary also went out of print and a newer edition was reprinted in 2014.
The title was later reprinted in 2018 with a black linen binding (which is not a rare edition). Because of this, there was only a limited print run of this volume and it is the rarest volume in the series. The red foiled design on fawn covers for this initial print run caused problems at the printing press, and so it ended up having to be hand-foiled. Yes! The rarest volume is the first printing of Crime and Punishment, one of the first 10 titles released in 2008.
PUFFIN CLOTHBOUND CLASSICS SERIES
(There is even some debate over the inclusion of The Pearl, as this was a separate commission by V&A, but it was produced in the same design as the rest of the series and I tend to think it counts.)Ĭomplementary series include the Leatherbound Classics, Clothbound Children’s Classics, Clothbound Poetry, Penguin Pocket (Philosophy) Hardbacks, and the new “Little” Clothbound Classics series featuring short stories and novellas. I can’t give an exact number, because there is some disagreement amongst collectors on whether you count the India Special Editions (which were published by Penguin India and match the series design in most respects, but they do not have the ribbon bookmark and were not designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith) the faux leather-bound classics which have similar cover designs and overlapping titles, but are bound in a different material the boxed sets the clothbound poetry series the clothbound children’s classics the pocket philosophy classics the original ‘precursor’ clothbound classics and other out-of-series volumespublished in the early years and/or the reprints with different cover colours. As of 2022, there are around 93 volumes in the series, with 3 more expected next year. This is an ongoing series, so the book count changes every year.
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