I am definitely not a 'shelves of perfection' kind of booktuber but I like what I like and when it comes to buying beautiful editions of classic books, my collections is definitely eclectic! In this video I take you on a tour of some of the books on my classics shelves. We look at some old editions as well as modern editions of classics, and I talk about some important things like text readability as well as showing you the beautiful covers and endpapers.

These are the modern editions mentioned in the video:
The Jane Austen collection Arcturus
The Puffin in Bloom collection
Hodder and Stoughton (Maurice)
Wordsworth Classics (Silas Marner)
Macmillan Collectors Library (Walden, Frankenstein, etc.)
Chiltern Classics (Tess of the D'Urbervilles, The Great Gatsby)
Virago (Maya Angelou books + Rebecca)
Vintage Classics (red spines)
Oxford World Classics (War and Peace)
The Great Writers Library (Passage to India)
Orange Penguin editions
The Sisterhood Classics (The Railway Children)
Penguin Little Black Classics
Penguin Essentials (A Room with a View)
Be Classic (by Puffin) (Jane Eyre)
Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition (Bronte compilation)
Penguin Modern Classics (duck egg blue spine new)
Penguin 20th Century Classics (duck egg blue spine older)
Penguin English Library
Penguin Classics (black spines)
Penguin Threads (The Secret Garden, Black Beauty, Little Women)
Penguin Clothbound Classics (Persuasion)

I also mentioned the Carolyn Marie Reads channel she talks a lot about classic books and has a beautiful collection:    / carolynmariereads  

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