Saturday 24 March 2018

List of Macmillan Collector's Library Editions

Amanda Kennedy

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 Carrol

Featuring 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 Carrol

Featuring Black and White illustrations.
Published: 14/07/2016
ISBN: 9781909621572


The Little Prince

By Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Features full colour illustrations.
Published: 14/07/2016
ISBN: 9781909621558

The Little Prince

By Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Features black and white illustrations.
Published 14/07/2016
ISBN: 9781909621565

Peter Pan

By J. M. Barrie

With colour illustrations.
Published: 14/07/2016
ISBN: 9781909621633

Collected Poems

By W. B. Yeats

Published: 14/07/2016
ISBN: 9781909621640

The Prophet

By Kahlil Gibran

Published 14/07/2016
ISBN: 9781909621596

My Family and Other Animals

By Gerald Durrell

Published: 14/07/2016
ISBN: 9781909621985

Emma

By Jane Austen

Illustrated by Hugh Thomson
Published 14/07/2016
ISBN: 9781909621664

Northanger Abbey

By Jane Austen

Illustrated by Hugh Thompson
Published: 14/07/2016
ISBN: 9781909621671

Sense and Sensibility

By Jane Austen

Illustrated by Hugh Thompson
Published 14/07/2016
ISBN: 9781909621695

Mansfield Park

By Jane Austen

Illustrated by Hugh Thompson
Published: 14/07/2016
ISBN: 9781909621718

Dracula 

By Bram Stoker

Includes an illuminating afterword by Jonty Claypole
Published: 14/07/2016
ISBN: 9781909621626

For Whom the Bell Tolls

By Ernest Hemingway

Features an afterword by Ned Halley
Published: 14/07/2016
ISBN: 9781909621428

Classic Locked Room Mysteries 

By David Stuart Davies

Published: 14/07/2016
ISBN: 9781909621374

The Hunchback of Notre Dame 

By Victor Hugo

Published: 14/07/2016
ISBN: 9781909621619


Farewell to Arms

By Ernest Hemingway

Published: 14/07/2016
ISBN: 9781909621411

Sanditon, Lady Susan, & The History of England

By Jane Austen

Includes two epistolary novels and additional shorter works.
Published: 14/07/2016
ISBN: 9781909621688

Ross Poldark 

By Winston Graham

The first novel of Winston Grahan's saga.
Published: 14/07/2017
ISBN: 9781909621510

Demelza

By Winston Graham

The Second novel in Winston Graham's saga.
Published: 14/07/2016
ISBN: 9781909621503

The Water Babies 

By Charles Kingsley

Featuring glorious black and white illustrations by W. Heath Robinson.
Published: 14/07/2016
ISBN: 9781909621404

Persuasion

By Jane Austen

Illustrated by Hugh Thompson
Published: 14/07/2016
ISBN: 9781909621701

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

By Ian Fleming

Features illustrations by Joe Berger.
Published: 14/07/2016
ISBN: 9781909621442

Dr. Thorne

By Anthony Trollope

Published: 14/07/2016
ISBN: 9781909621398

Alice in Wonderland Everlasting Diary

By Rosemary Gray

Beautifully illustrated by Sir John Tenniel.
Published: 14/07/2016
ISBN: 9781909621602

The Sonnets 

By William Shakespeare

Published: 11/08/2016
ISBN: 9781909621848

A Midsummer Night's Dream 

By William Shakespeare

Illustrated throughout by renowned artist Sir John Gilbert.
Published: 11/08/2016
ISBN: 9781909621879

Romeo and Juliet

By William Shakespeare

Illustrated throughout by renowned artist Sir John Gilbert.
Published: 11/08/2016
ISBN: 9781909621855

Macbeth 

By William Shakespeare

Illustrated throughout by Sir John Gilbert.
Published: 11/08/2016
ISBN: 9781909621886

Othello

By William Shakespeare

Illustrated throughout by John Gilbert.
Published: 11/08/2016
ISBN: 9781909621916

King Lear

By William Shakespeare

Includes illustrations by Sir John Gilbert
Published: 11/08/2016
ISBN: 9781909621923

Twelfth Night

By William Shakespeare

Illustrated throughout by John Gilbert
Published: 11/08/2016
ISBN: 9781909621909

Julius Caesar

By William Shakespeare

Illustrated by John Gilbert
Published: 11/08/2016
ISBN: 9781909621954

King Henry V

By Julius Caesar

Fully illustrated throughout.
Published: 11/08/2016
ISBN: 9781909621930

The Taming of the Shrew 

By William Shakespeare

Illustrated edition.
Published: 11/08/2016
ISBN: 9781909621961

King Richard III

By William Shakespeare

Illustrated by Sir John Gilbert.
Published: 11/08/2016
ISBN: 9781909621947

The Merchant of Venice

By William Shakespeare

Fully illustrated throughout.
Published; 11/08/2016
ISBN: 9781909621893

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Published: 11/08/2016
ISBN: 9781909621732

A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four

By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Published: 11/08/2016
ISBN: 9781909621763

The Best of Sherlock Holmes

By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Sidney 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 Doyle

Published: 11/08/2016
ISBN: 9781909621787

Sherlock Holmes: The Dark Mysteries

By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Published: 11/08/2016
ISBN: 9781909621794

The Return of Sherlock Holmes and His Last Bow

By Arthur Conan Doyle

Published: 11/08/2016
ISBN: 9781909621770

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Published: 11/08/2016
ISBN: 9781909621756

The Hound of the Baskervilles & The Valley of Fear

By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Published: 11/08/2016
ISBN: 9781909621749

Just So Stories 

By Rudyard Kipling

Beautifully illustrated throughout by Kipling himself.
Published: 11/08/2016
ISBN: 9781909621800

Kim

By Rudyard Kipling

Published: 11/08/2016
ISBN: 9781909621824

Selected Verse

By Rudyard Kipling

Published; 11/08/2016
ISBN: 9781909621831

Ghost Stories

By Charles Dickens

Illustrated by various artists.
Published: 08/09/2016
ISBN: 9781509825400

A Tale of Two Cities 

By Charles Dickens

Published: 08/09/2016
ISBN: 9781509825387

Oliver Twist 

By Charles Dickens

Features original illustrations by George Cruikshank.
Published: 08/09/2016
ISBN: 9781509825370

Great Expectations 

By Charles Dickens

Illustrated by various artists.
Published: 08/09/2016
ISBN: 9781509825363

David Copperfield

By Charles Dickens

Features original illustrations by H. K. Browne 'Phiz'.
Published: 08/09/2016
ISBN: 9781509825394

Hard Times

By Charles Dickens

illustrated by Harry French.
Published: 08/09/2016
ISBN: 9781509825431

The Pickwick Papers

By Charles Dickens

Illustrated by H. K. Browne.
Published: 08/09/2016
ISBN: 9781509825455

A Christmas Carol

By Charles Dickens

Original illustrations by John Leech.
Published: 08/09/2016
ISBN: 9781509825448

The Beautiful and the Damned 

By F. Scott Fitzgerald

Published: 08/09/2016
ISBN:9781509826384

The Great Gatsby

By F. Scott Fitzgerald

Published: 08/09/2016
ISBN: 9781509826360

Tender is the Night

By F. Scott Fitzgerald

Published: 08/09/2016
ISBN: 9781509826377

Tales of the Jazz Age

By F. Scott Fitzgerald

Published: 08/09/2016
ISBN: 9781509826391

English Fairy Tales

By F. A. Steel

Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Published: 08/09/2016
ISBN: 9781909621466

The Odyssey

By Homer

This 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 Adamson

Published: 08/09/2016
ISBN: 9781909621480

Diary of a Provincial Lady

By E. M. Delafield

Published: 08/09/2016
ISBN: 9781909621381

Les Miserables

By Victor Hugo

The abridged version of Hugo's masterpiece, originally published in 1915.
Published: 08/09/2016
ISBN: 9781909621497

The Travels of Ibn Battutah

By Ibn Battutah

Published: 08/09/2016
ISBN: 9781909621473

The Machine Gunners

By Robert Westall

Published: 08/09/2017
ISBN: 9781909621527

The Way Through The Woods

By Colin Dexter

Published: 08/09/2016
ISBN: 9781909621435

Grimm's Fairy Tales

By The Grimm Brothers

Complete and unabridged, with illustrations by Arthur Rackham, coloured by Barbara Frith.
Published: 06/10/2016
ISBN: 9781509826667

Best Fairy Tales

By Hans Christian Anderson

The classic translation by Jean Hersholt, illustrated by various artists.
Published: 06/10/2016
ISBN: 9781509826650

Tales of Mystery and Imagination

By Edgar Allen Poe

Published: 06/10/2016
ISBN: 9781509826698

Tales and Poems

By Edgar Allen Poe

Published: 06/10/2016
ISBN: 9781509826681

The Phantom of the Opera 

By Gastom Leroux

Published: 06/10/2016
ISBN: 9781509826674

Dubliners

By James Joyce

Published: 06/10/2016
ISBN: 9781509826629

Irish Ghost Stories

Edited by David Stuart Davies

Published: 06/10/2016
ISBN: 9781509826612

Best Fairy Stories of the World

By Marcus Clapham

Illustrated by various artists, including Arthur Rackham, Charles Robinson, Walter Crane and Howard Pyle.
Published: 06/10/2016
ISBN: 9781509826636

Walden

By Henry David Thoreau

Published: 06/10/2016
ISBN: 9781509826704

Moby Dick

By Herman Melville

Published: 06/10/2016
ISBN: 9781509826643

Complete Ghost Stories

By M. R. James

Published: 26/01/2017
ISBN: 9781509827725

Little Women

By Louisa May Alcott

Includes 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 Gray

Beautifully 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 Darwin

Published: 26/01/2017
ISBN: 9781509827695

The Time Machine

By H. G. Wells

Published: 26/01/2017
ISBN: 9781909621534

If Only They Could Talk

By James Herriot

Published: 26/01/2017
ISBN: 9781509824892

The Secret Garden

By Frances Hodgson Burnett

Published: 26/01/2017
ISBN: 9781509827763

Anna Karenina

By Leo Tolstoy

Published: 26/01/2017
ISBN: 9781509827787

The War of the Worlds

By H. G. Wells

Published: 26/01/2017
ISBN: 9781909621541

Frankenstein 

By Mary Shelley

Published: 26/01/2017
ISBN: 9781509827756

Crime and Punishment

By Fyodor Dostoevsky

Published: 26/01/2017
ISBN: 9781509827749

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

By James Joyce

Published: 26/01/2017
ISBN: 9781509827732

The House of Mirth 

By Edith Wharton

Published: 26/01/2017
ISBN: 9781909621978

It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet

By James Herriot

The second volume of Herriot's memoirs.
Published: 26/01/2017
ISBN: 9781509824908

The Wind in the Willows

By Kenneth Grahame

Features sixteen gorgeous colour illustrations by the celebrated Arthur Rackham.
Published: 23/03/2017
ISBN: 9781509827930

Jane Eyre

By Charlotte Bronte

Published: 23/03/2017
ISBN: 9781509827794

Wuthering Heights

By Emily Bronte

Published: 23/03/2017
ISBN: 9781509827800

Around the World in Eighty Days

By Jules Verne

Published: 23/03/2017
ISBN: 9781509827855

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

By Jules Verne

Beautifully 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 Verne
Illustrated by Edouard Riou.
Published: 23/03/2017
ISBN: 9781509827886

The Picture of Dorian Gray

By Oscar Wilde

Published: 23/03/2017
ISBN: 9781509827831

The Happy Prince and Other Stories

By Oscar Wilde

Beautifully 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 Wilde

Illustrated by by Aubrey Beardsley.
Published: 23/03/2017
ISBN: 9781509827848

Poems of Thomas Hardy

By Thomas Hardy

Published: 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 

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

By Mark Twain

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

A Little Princess

By Frances Hodgson Burnett

Features illustrations by Reginald Birch.
Published: 18/05/2017
ISBN: 9781509827985 

North and South

Elizabeth Gaskell

Published: 18/05/2017
ISBN: 9781509827947 

The Art of War 

By Sun Tzu

Published: 18/05/2017
ISBN: 9781509827954

The Greengage Summer

By Rumer Godden

Published: 18/05/2017
ISBN: 9781509827350

The Scarlet Letter

By Nathanial Hawthorne

Published: 18/05/2017
ISBN: 9781509827961

The Tiger in the Smoke

By Margery Allingham
Published: 18/05/2017
ISBN: 9781509826780

Sweet Danger

By Margery Allingham

Published: 18/05/2017
ISBN: 9781509826797

All the Mowgli Stories

By Rudyard Kipling

Illustrated by Stuart Tresilian.
Published: 18/05/2017
ISBN: 9781509830763

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and other stories

By Robert Louis Stevenson

Published: 27/07/2017
ISBN: 9781509828067

Treasure Island

By Robert Louis Stevenson

Illustrated by H. M. Brock.
Published: 27/07/2017
ISBN: 9781509828074

The Ministry of Fear

By Graham Greene

Published: 27/07/2017
ISBN: 9781509828036

The Third Man and Other Stories

By Graham Greene

Published: 27/07/2017
ISBN: 9781509828050

Our Man in Havana

By Graham Greene

Published: 27/07/2017
ISBN: 9781509828043

Brighton Rock

By Graham Greene

Published: 27/07/2017
ISBN: 9781509828029

Vanity Fair

By William Makepeace Thackeray

Published: 27/07/2017
ISBN: 9781509844395

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

By Muriel Spark

Published: 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 

Aesop's Fables

By Aesop

Features illustrations by Arthur Rackham, which have been coloured by Barbara Frith.
Published: 21/09/2017
ISBN: 9781509844364 

Don Quixote

By Miguel de Cervantes

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 

Pinocchio

By Carlo Collodi

Features illustrations of the classic British illustrator Charles Folkard.
Published: 21/09/2017
ISBN: 9781509842902 

Heidi

By Johanna Spyri

Features charming line-drawn illustrations, and an afterword by editor Marcus Clapham.
Published: 21/09/2017
ISBN: 9781509842926

The Three Musketeers

By Alexandre Dumas

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 

Madame Bovary

By Gustave Flaubert

Published: 21/09/2017
ISBN: 9781509842889 

A Room of One's Own

By Virginia Woolf

Published: 19/10/2017
ISBN: 9781509843183 

Mrs Dalloway

By Virginia Woolf

Published: 19/10/2017
ISBN: 9781509843312 

To The Lighthouse

By Virginia Woolf

Published: 19/10/2017
ISBN: 9781509844548 

Best Short Stories

By W. Somerset Maugham

Published: 19/10/2017
ISBN: 9781509843992

The Go-Between

By L. P. Hartley

Published: 19/10/2017
ISBN: 9781509843176 

A Shropshire Lad

By A. E. Housman

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 

Lady Chatterley's Lover

By D. H. Lawrence

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 

The Riddle of the Sands

By Erskine Childers

Features maps drawn from Childers' originals.
Published: 19/10/2017
ISBN: 9781509843152

Poetry of the First World War

Edited by Marcus Clapham

Published: 19/10/2017
ISBN: 9781509843206

The Railway Children

By E. Nesbit

Features illustrations by C. E. Brock. 
Published: 19/10/2017
ISBN: 9781509843169 

Poems for Love

Edited by Gaby Morgan

Published: 11/01/2018
ISBN: 9781509850938 

The Scarlet Pimpernel

By Baroness Orczy

Published: 11/01/2018
ISBN: 9781509835744 

The Communist Manifesto and Selected Writings

By Karl Marx

Published: 08/02/2018
ISBN: 9781509852956 

The Woman in White

By Wilkie Collins

Published: 08/02/2018
ISBN: 9781509869367 

A Town Like Alice 

By Nevil Shute

Published: 08/02/2018
ISBN:  9781509834815 

Scenes of London Life

By Charles Dickens

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 

The Moonstone

By Wilkie Collins

Publication date: 03/05/2018
ISBN: 9781509850907 

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 

Middlemarch

By George Eliot

Publication date: 03/05/2018
ISBN: 9781509857449 

Cranford

By Elizabeth Gaskell

Features illustrations by the celebrated Hugh Thomson.
Publication date: 03/05/2018
ISBN: 9781509857432 

The Turn of the Screw and Owen Wingrave

By Henry James

Publication date: 06/09/2018
ISBN: 9781509850945 

The Awakening and Other Stories

By Kate Chopin

Publication date: 06/09/2018
ISBN: 9781509854127 

Black Beauty

By Anna Sewell

Features illustrations by Cecil Aldin.
Publication date: 06/09/2018
ISBN: 9781509865987 

Round About the Christmas Tree

Edited by Becky Brown

A Miscellany of Festive Stories, featuring illustrations by Alice Ercle Hunt.
Publication date: 06/09/2018
ISBN:9781509866564 

Lord Peter Wimsey Investigates

By Dorothy L. Sayers

Publication date: 06/09/2018
ISBN: 9781509868643 

The Story of Doctor Dolittle

By Philip Ardagh

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. 

Amanda Kennedy / Book Blogger, Writer & Editor

Amanda is a lifelong learner and book lover who lives in the North of England with her family and several cats. She writes book reviews, literary news and bookish articles here on All My Pretty Books.

To learn more about Amanda's own work, visit her personal website.

3 Comments:

  1. Would be great if you could also add Meditations by Marcus Aurelius and The Enchiridion by Epictetus to your growing classic book collections.

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  2. Would wish for more James Herriot books to be added to Macmillan Collector's library series.

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  3. Would wish for more James Herriot books to be added to Macmillan's collectors library series. Any chance of this happening?

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