Beautiful For Ever by Helen Rappaport

Author of Ekaterinburg. The Last Days of the Romanovs.

In the 1860s, however, the pursuit of artificial beauty was still very much publicly frowned upon and the purchase of cosmetics and hair colourants was carried out 'under the counter', away from public scrutiny. So it was, that rich society women made their way heavily veiled by closed carriage to a luxurious premises at number 47a New Bond Street. The sign over the door promised them they would be 'Beautiful For Ever!' and they believed it. They hoped especially it would win them husbands or keep the ones they had.

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Long Barn Classics are different. This is emphatically not just another reprint series.

Each title will be published in a limited edition of 500 copies, hand-numbered. They will printed on fine quality paper, cloth bound, embossed, and presented in a handsome slipcase.

They will be illustrated by some of the best artists – chiefly wood engravers – in Britain.

The first 50 of each will be sold with an accompanying folder containing limited edition prints of the full-page illustrations, signed and numbered by the artist.

They will be beautiful books, not too precious to hold and to read, precious enough to be kept for a lifetime.

The first title, to be published in September 2010 is A CHRISTMAS CAROL by Charles Dickens.
With wood engravings by Andy English.

Price for the main printing of 450 will be £20.
Price for the special edition of 50 will be £50.

Forthcoming Classics

Cranford by Mrs Gaskell.
Silas Marner by George Eliot.
Illustrators to be announced.