In 2015, Pan Macmillan acquired the independent publisher, Collector's Library, who were famed for producing pocket-sized editions of classic literature in hardback form.
From 2016, Macmillan began republishing the Collector's Edition Library with an updated jacket design. Featuring blue cloth hardcover binding, gilded edges and handy ribbon bookmarks, the jackets have been restyled with gorgeous colour endpapers in an exclusive design.
Over 150 titles have been released so far, with even more to be published in the coming months. Several include original illustrations, particularly children's titles (such as Alice in Wonderland, The Little Prince and others), and all include a foreword, afterword or both by a leading writer in their field. These books are absolutely lovely, particularly as they are easy to fit into a pocket or slip into a bag for reading on the move.
Here is a list of published and upcoming titles from the new Macmillan Collector's Edition library, ordered by date of publication. Alternatively, you can download a printable, simplified version here.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass: And What Alice Found There
By Lewis CarrolFeaturing Black and White illustrations.
Published: 14/07/2016
ISBN: 9781909621589
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass: And What Alice Found There
By Lewis CarrolFeaturing Black and White illustrations.
Published: 14/07/2016
ISBN: 9781909621572
The Little Prince
By Antoine de Saint-ExuperyFeatures full colour illustrations.
Published: 14/07/2016
ISBN: 9781909621558
The Little Prince
By Antoine de Saint-ExuperyFeatures black and white illustrations.
Published 14/07/2016
ISBN: 9781909621565
Peter Pan
By J. M. BarrieWith colour illustrations.
Published: 14/07/2016
ISBN: 9781909621633
Collected Poems
By W. B. YeatsPublished: 14/07/2016
ISBN: 9781909621640
The Prophet
By Kahlil GibranPublished 14/07/2016
ISBN: 9781909621596
My Family and Other Animals
By Gerald DurrellPublished: 14/07/2016
ISBN: 9781909621985
Emma
By Jane AustenIllustrated by Hugh Thomson
Published 14/07/2016
ISBN: 9781909621664
Northanger Abbey
By Jane AustenIllustrated by Hugh Thompson
Published: 14/07/2016
ISBN: 9781909621671
Sense and Sensibility
By Jane AustenIllustrated by Hugh Thompson
Published 14/07/2016
ISBN: 9781909621695
Mansfield Park
By Jane AustenIllustrated by Hugh Thompson
Published: 14/07/2016
ISBN: 9781909621718
Dracula
By Bram StokerIncludes an illuminating afterword by Jonty Claypole
Published: 14/07/2016
ISBN: 9781909621626
For Whom the Bell Tolls
By Ernest HemingwayFeatures an afterword by Ned Halley
Published: 14/07/2016
ISBN: 9781909621428
Classic Locked Room Mysteries
By David Stuart DaviesPublished: 14/07/2016
ISBN: 9781909621374
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
By Victor HugoPublished: 14/07/2016
ISBN: 9781909621619
Farewell to Arms
By Ernest HemingwayPublished: 14/07/2016
ISBN: 9781909621411
Sanditon, Lady Susan, & The History of England
By Jane AustenIncludes two epistolary novels and additional shorter works.
Published: 14/07/2016
ISBN: 9781909621688
Ross Poldark
By Winston GrahamThe first novel of Winston Grahan's saga.
Published: 14/07/2017
ISBN: 9781909621510
Demelza
By Winston GrahamThe Second novel in Winston Graham's saga.
Published: 14/07/2016
ISBN: 9781909621503
The Water Babies
By Charles KingsleyFeaturing glorious black and white illustrations by W. Heath Robinson.
Published: 14/07/2016
ISBN: 9781909621404
Persuasion
By Jane AustenIllustrated by Hugh Thompson
Published: 14/07/2016
ISBN: 9781909621701
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
By Ian FlemingFeatures illustrations by Joe Berger.
Published: 14/07/2016
ISBN: 9781909621442
Dr. Thorne
By Anthony TrollopePublished: 14/07/2016
ISBN: 9781909621398
Alice in Wonderland Everlasting Diary
By Rosemary GrayBeautifully illustrated by Sir John Tenniel.
Published: 14/07/2016
ISBN: 9781909621602
The Sonnets
By William ShakespearePublished: 11/08/2016
ISBN: 9781909621848
A Midsummer Night's Dream
By William ShakespeareIllustrated throughout by renowned artist Sir John Gilbert.
Published: 11/08/2016
ISBN: 9781909621879
Romeo and Juliet
By William ShakespeareIllustrated throughout by renowned artist Sir John Gilbert.
Published: 11/08/2016
ISBN: 9781909621855
Macbeth
By William ShakespeareIllustrated throughout by Sir John Gilbert.
Published: 11/08/2016
ISBN: 9781909621886
Othello
By William ShakespeareIllustrated throughout by John Gilbert.
Published: 11/08/2016
ISBN: 9781909621916
King Lear
By William ShakespeareIncludes illustrations by Sir John Gilbert
Published: 11/08/2016
ISBN: 9781909621923
Twelfth Night
By William ShakespeareIllustrated throughout by John Gilbert
Published: 11/08/2016
ISBN: 9781909621909
Julius Caesar
By William ShakespeareIllustrated by John Gilbert
Published: 11/08/2016
ISBN: 9781909621954
King Henry V
By Julius CaesarFully illustrated throughout.
Published: 11/08/2016
ISBN: 9781909621930
The Taming of the Shrew
By William ShakespeareIllustrated edition.
Published: 11/08/2016
ISBN: 9781909621961
King Richard III
By William ShakespeareIllustrated by Sir John Gilbert.
Published: 11/08/2016
ISBN: 9781909621947
The Merchant of Venice
By William ShakespeareFully illustrated throughout.
Published; 11/08/2016
ISBN: 9781909621893
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
By Sir Arthur Conan DoylePublished: 11/08/2016
ISBN: 9781909621732
A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four
By Sir Arthur Conan DoylePublished: 11/08/2016
ISBN: 9781909621763
The Best of Sherlock Holmes
By Sir Arthur Conan DoyleSidney Paget's fantastic original illustrations from The Strand magazine accompany each tale.
Published: 11/08/2016
ISBN: 9781909621992
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
By Sir Arthur Conan DoylePublished: 11/08/2016
ISBN: 9781909621787
Sherlock Holmes: The Dark Mysteries
By Sir Arthur Conan DoylePublished: 11/08/2016
ISBN: 9781909621794
The Return of Sherlock Holmes and His Last Bow
By Arthur Conan DoylePublished: 11/08/2016
ISBN: 9781909621770
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
By Sir Arthur Conan DoylePublished: 11/08/2016
ISBN: 9781909621756
The Hound of the Baskervilles & The Valley of Fear
By Sir Arthur Conan DoylePublished: 11/08/2016
ISBN: 9781909621749
Just So Stories
By Rudyard KiplingBeautifully illustrated throughout by Kipling himself.
Published: 11/08/2016
ISBN: 9781909621800
Kim
By Rudyard KiplingPublished: 11/08/2016
ISBN: 9781909621824
Selected Verse
By Rudyard KiplingPublished; 11/08/2016
ISBN: 9781909621831
Ghost Stories
By Charles DickensIllustrated by various artists.
Published: 08/09/2016
ISBN: 9781509825400
A Tale of Two Cities
By Charles DickensPublished: 08/09/2016
ISBN: 9781509825387
Oliver Twist
By Charles DickensFeatures original illustrations by George Cruikshank.
Published: 08/09/2016
ISBN: 9781509825370
Great Expectations
By Charles DickensIllustrated by various artists.
Published: 08/09/2016
ISBN: 9781509825363
David Copperfield
By Charles DickensFeatures original illustrations by H. K. Browne 'Phiz'.
Published: 08/09/2016
ISBN: 9781509825394
Hard Times
By Charles DickensPublished: 08/09/2016
ISBN: 9781509825431
The Pickwick Papers
By Charles DickensPublished: 08/09/2016
ISBN: 9781509825455
A Christmas Carol
By Charles DickensPublished: 08/09/2016
ISBN: 9781509825448
The Beautiful and the Damned
By F. Scott FitzgeraldPublished: 08/09/2016
ISBN:9781509826384
The Great Gatsby
By F. Scott FitzgeraldPublished: 08/09/2016
ISBN: 9781509826360
Tender is the Night
By F. Scott FitzgeraldPublished: 08/09/2016
ISBN: 9781509826377
Tales of the Jazz Age
By F. Scott FitzgeraldPublished: 08/09/2016
ISBN: 9781509826391
English Fairy Tales
By F. A. SteelIllustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Published: 08/09/2016
ISBN: 9781909621466
The Odyssey
By HomerThis edition uses a translation by T. E. Lawrence, known as "Lawrence of Arabia", and the author of The Seven Pillars of Wisdom.
Published: 08/09/2016
ISBN: 9781909621459
Born Free
By Joy AdamsonPublished: 08/09/2016
ISBN: 9781909621480
Diary of a Provincial Lady
By E. M. DelafieldPublished: 08/09/2016
ISBN: 9781909621381
Les Miserables
By Victor HugoThe abridged version of Hugo's masterpiece, originally published in 1915.
Published: 08/09/2016
ISBN: 9781909621497
The Travels of Ibn Battutah
By Ibn BattutahPublished: 08/09/2016
ISBN: 9781909621473
The Machine Gunners
By Robert WestallPublished: 08/09/2017
ISBN: 9781909621527
The Way Through The Woods
By Colin DexterPublished: 08/09/2016
ISBN: 9781909621435
Grimm's Fairy Tales
By The Grimm BrothersComplete and unabridged, with illustrations by Arthur Rackham, coloured by Barbara Frith.
Published: 06/10/2016
ISBN: 9781509826667
Best Fairy Tales
By Hans Christian AndersonThe classic translation by Jean Hersholt, illustrated by various artists.
Published: 06/10/2016
ISBN: 9781509826650
Tales of Mystery and Imagination
By Edgar Allen PoePublished: 06/10/2016
ISBN: 9781509826698
Tales and Poems
By Edgar Allen PoePublished: 06/10/2016
ISBN: 9781509826681
The Phantom of the Opera
By Gastom LerouxPublished: 06/10/2016
ISBN: 9781509826674
Dubliners
By James JoycePublished: 06/10/2016
ISBN: 9781509826629
Irish Ghost Stories
Edited by David Stuart DaviesPublished: 06/10/2016
ISBN: 9781509826612
Best Fairy Stories of the World
By Marcus ClaphamIllustrated by various artists, including Arthur Rackham, Charles Robinson, Walter Crane and Howard Pyle.
Published: 06/10/2016
ISBN: 9781509826636
Walden
By Henry David ThoreauPublished: 06/10/2016
ISBN: 9781509826704
Moby Dick
By Herman MelvillePublished: 06/10/2016
ISBN: 9781509826643
Complete Ghost Stories
By M. R. JamesPublished: 26/01/2017
ISBN: 9781509827725
Little Women
By Louisa May AlcottIncludes the sequel, Good Wives, which picks up the girls' stories three years on.
Published: 26/01/2017
ISBN: 9781509827770
London: An Illustrated Literary Companion
By Rosemary GrayBeautifully illustrated with drawings and engravings from distinguished artists, including Gustave Dore, George Cruikshank, James McNeill Whistler and Hugh Thomson, and contains contemporary prints and photographs.
Published: 26/01/2017
ISBN: 9781509827688
On The Origin of Species
By Charles DarwinPublished: 26/01/2017
ISBN: 9781509827695
The Time Machine
By H. G. WellsPublished: 26/01/2017
ISBN: 9781909621534
If Only They Could Talk
By James HerriotPublished: 26/01/2017
ISBN: 9781509824892
The Secret Garden
By Frances Hodgson BurnettPublished: 26/01/2017
ISBN: 9781509827763
Anna Karenina
By Leo TolstoyPublished: 26/01/2017
ISBN: 9781509827787
The War of the Worlds
By H. G. WellsPublished: 26/01/2017
ISBN: 9781909621541
Frankenstein
By Mary ShelleyPublished: 26/01/2017
ISBN: 9781509827756
Crime and Punishment
By Fyodor DostoevskyPublished: 26/01/2017
ISBN: 9781509827749
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
By James JoycePublished: 26/01/2017
ISBN: 9781509827732
The House of Mirth
By Edith WhartonPublished: 26/01/2017
ISBN: 9781909621978
It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet
By James HerriotThe second volume of Herriot's memoirs.
Published: 26/01/2017
ISBN: 9781509824908
The Wind in the Willows
By Kenneth GrahameFeatures sixteen gorgeous colour illustrations by the celebrated Arthur Rackham.
Published: 23/03/2017
ISBN: 9781509827930
Jane Eyre
By Charlotte BrontePublished: 23/03/2017
ISBN: 9781509827794
Wuthering Heights
By Emily BrontePublished: 23/03/2017
ISBN: 9781509827800
Around the World in Eighty Days
By Jules VernePublished: 23/03/2017
ISBN: 9781509827855
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
By Jules VerneBeautifully illustrated by the French painter Edouard Riou, who worked with Jules Verne on six of his novels.
Published; 23/03/2017
ISBN: 9781509827879
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
By Jules VerneIllustrated by Edouard Riou.
Published: 23/03/2017
ISBN: 9781509827886
The Picture of Dorian Gray
By Oscar WildePublished: 23/03/2017
ISBN: 9781509827831
The Happy Prince and Other Stories
By Oscar WildeBeautifully illustrated by Wilde's fellow decadent and aestheticist, the inimitable Aubrey Beardsley.
Published: 23/03/2017
ISBN: 9781509827824
The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
By Oscar WildeIllustrated by by Aubrey Beardsley.
Published: 23/03/2017
ISBN: 9781509827848
Poems of Thomas Hardy
By Thomas HardyPublished: 18/05/2017
ISBN: 9781509826803
The Count of Monte Cristo
By Alexandre Dumas
Published: 18/05/2017
ISBN: 9781509827978
The African Queen
By C. S. Forester
Published: 18/05/2017
ISBN: 9781509826773
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
By Mark Twain
Published: 18/05/2017
ISBN: 9781509828005
Published: 18/05/2017
ISBN: 9781509827992
Anne of Green Gables
By L. M. Montgomery
Features original illustrations by M. A. & W. A. J. Claus.
Published: 18/05/2017
ISBN: 9781509828012
Features illustrations by Reginald Birch.
Published: 18/05/2017
ISBN: 9781509827985
Published: 18/05/2017
ISBN: 9781509827947
The Art of War
By Sun TzuPublished: 18/05/2017
ISBN: 9781509827954
The Greengage Summer
By Rumer GoddenPublished: 18/05/2017
ISBN: 9781509827350
The Scarlet Letter
By Nathanial HawthornePublished: 18/05/2017
ISBN: 9781509827961
The Tiger in the Smoke
By Margery AllinghamPublished: 18/05/2017
ISBN: 9781509826780
Sweet Danger
By Margery AllinghamPublished: 18/05/2017
ISBN: 9781509826797
All the Mowgli Stories
By Rudyard KiplingIllustrated by Stuart Tresilian.
Published: 18/05/2017
ISBN: 9781509830763
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and other stories
By Robert Louis StevensonPublished: 27/07/2017
ISBN: 9781509828067
Treasure Island
By Robert Louis StevensonIllustrated by H. M. Brock.
Published: 27/07/2017
ISBN: 9781509828074
The Ministry of Fear
By Graham GreenePublished: 27/07/2017
ISBN: 9781509828036
The Third Man and Other Stories
By Graham GreenePublished: 27/07/2017
ISBN: 9781509828050
Our Man in Havana
By Graham GreenePublished: 27/07/2017
ISBN: 9781509828043
Brighton Rock
By Graham GreenePublished: 27/07/2017
ISBN: 9781509828029
Vanity Fair
By William Makepeace ThackerayPublished: 27/07/2017
ISBN: 9781509844395
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
By Muriel SparkPublished: 21/09/2017
ISBN: 9781509843701
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Features illustrations by the wood engraver, Gustave Dore.
Published: 21/09/2017
ISBN: 9781509842919
Features illustrations by Arthur Rackham, which have been coloured by Barbara Frith.
Published: 21/09/2017
ISBN: 9781509844364
Published: 21/09/2017
ISBN: 9781509844760
Robinson Crusoe
By Daniel Defoe
Features illustrations by the celebrated Victorian caricaturist George Cruikshank.
Published: 21/09/2017
ISBN: 9781509842896
The Prisoner of Zenda
By Anthony Hope
Published: 21/09/2017
ISBN: 9781509834587
The Call of the Wild and White Fang
By Jack London
Published: 21/09/2017
ISBN: 9781509841769
I Capture the Castle
By Dodie Smith
Illustrated by Ruth Steed.
Published: 21/09/2017
ISBN: 9781509843732
Features illustrations of the classic British illustrator Charles Folkard.
Published: 21/09/2017
ISBN: 9781509842902
Features charming line-drawn illustrations, and an afterword by editor Marcus Clapham.
Published: 21/09/2017
ISBN: 9781509842926
Published: 21/09/2017
ISBN: 9781509842933
Five Children and It
By E. Nesbit
Features the drawings of H. R. Millar.
Published: 21/09/2017
ISBN: 9781509836024
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
By Frank L. Baum
Features charming, original illustrations by Mary Cowles Clark.
Published: 21/09/2017
ISBN: 9781509841745
Published: 21/09/2017
ISBN: 9781509842889
A Room of One's Own
By Virginia Woolf
Published: 19/10/2017
ISBN: 9781509843183
Published: 19/10/2017
ISBN: 9781509843312
To The Lighthouse
By Virginia Woolf
Published: 19/10/2017
ISBN: 9781509844548
Published: 19/10/2017
ISBN: 9781509843992
Published: 19/10/2017
ISBN: 9781509843176
Features the superb wood engravings of the Vorticist artist and illustrator Agnes Miller Parker.
Published: 19/10/2017
ISBN: 9781509843220
Gulliver's Travels
By Jonathan Swift
Features artwork by Arthur Rackham.
Published: 19/10/2017
ISBN: 9781509843213
Also includes the essay, My Skirmish with Jolly Roger, describing the pirating of this infamous novel.
Published; 19/10/2017
ISBN: 9781509843190
Orlando
By Virginia Woolf
Published: 19/10/2017
ISBN: 9781509841875
Features maps drawn from Childers' originals.
Published: 19/10/2017
ISBN: 9781509843152
Published: 19/10/2017
ISBN: 9781509843206
Features illustrations by C. E. Brock.
Published: 19/10/2017
ISBN: 9781509843169
Published: 11/01/2018
ISBN: 9781509850938
Published: 11/01/2018
ISBN: 9781509835744
The Communist Manifesto and Selected Writings
By Karl Marx
Published: 08/02/2018
ISBN: 9781509852956
Published: 08/02/2018
ISBN: 9781509869367
A Town Like Alice
By Nevil Shute
Published: 08/02/2018
ISBN: 9781509834815
Thirteen sketches from Sketches by Boz, accompanied by illustrations from George Cruikshank.
Published: 08/02/2018
ISBN: 9781509854288
The Portrait of a Lady
By Henry James
Published: 08/02/2018
ISBN: 9781509850914
Upcoming Publications
The following are books which are due to be published in the Collector's Library series in 2018:
The Heart of Darkness and Other Stories
By Joseph Conrad
Publication date: 03/05/2018
ISBN: 9781509850921
Pollyanna
By Eleanor H. Porter
Publication date: 03/05/2018
ISBN: 9781509852246
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
By Thomas Hardy
Publication date: 03/05/2018
ISBN: 9781509857456
Publication date: 03/05/2018
ISBN: 9781509857449
Features illustrations by the celebrated Hugh Thomson.
Publication date: 03/05/2018
ISBN: 9781509857432
Publication date: 06/09/2018
ISBN: 9781509850945
Publication date: 06/09/2018
ISBN: 9781509854127
Black Beauty
By Anna Sewell
Features illustrations by Cecil Aldin.
Publication date: 06/09/2018
ISBN: 9781509865987
A Miscellany of Festive Stories, featuring illustrations by Alice Ercle Hunt.
Publication date: 06/09/2018
ISBN:9781509866564
Publication date: 06/09/2018
ISBN: 9781509868643
Illustrated with Hugh Lofting's own drawings, and includes updated material.
Publication date: 06/09/2018
ISBN: 9781509868780
Two further books are planned for release in early 2019 including Malice Aforethought by Francis Iles (ISBN: 9781509889365) and Love Letters of Great Men by Ursula Doyle (ISBN: 9781509895304), though the covers for these two books have not yet been released.
You can also download a printable, simplified version to keep track of your personal collection.
Which are your favourite editions in this collection? Please feel free to leave your comments and recommendations below.
Which are your favourite editions in this collection? Please feel free to leave your comments and recommendations below.
Would be great if you could also add Meditations by Marcus Aurelius and The Enchiridion by Epictetus to your growing classic book collections.
ReplyDeleteWould wish for more James Herriot books to be added to Macmillan Collector's library series.
ReplyDeleteWould wish for more James Herriot books to be added to Macmillan's collectors library series. Any chance of this happening?
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