by discipline, focus, approach, type of work, or geographic location. Examples of such series include the "Antwerp Working Papers in Linguistics", "Early English Manuscripts in Facsimile", "Garland Reference Library", "Canterbury Tales Project", "Early English Text Society", and "Cambridge Companions to Music". Compared with editorial collection Book series can be compared with editorial collection, a type of serial publication which is common in the Romance-speaking world, especially in France. Although the two are similar in many ways, book series and editorial collection differ because books in a series generally have a common subject, character, or universe; in other words, a set of volumes that are related to each other by certain thematic elements. While books in a collection do not necessarily have a common subject, or a specific order, but with a certain affinity in the content of books (collections on art, on religion, on science...), as well as in the format, spine and page layout, even grammage, number of pages and style of typeface. See also List of children's book series Monographic series Sequel Continuation novel Tetralogy Trilogy Volume References Further reading Peter Harris. International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature. London: Taylor & Francis, 2014. Frank Arthur Mumby. Publishing and Bookselling: A History from the Earliest Times to the Present Day. London: Jonathan Cape, 1930. Revised edition, 1949. Frank L. Schick. The Paperbound Book in America: The History of Paperbacks and Their European Background. New York: R. R. Bowker, 1958. John Spiers, ed. The Culture of the Publisher’s Series. 2 vols. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Jack David Zipes, ed. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature. New York: Oxford University Press, Inc., 2006. 4 volumes. External links PublishingHistory.com - List of hardback and paperback book series with titles listed in each series A Series of Series - List of hardback publisher’s book series with detailed historical commentary on each FantasticFiction.com FictFact.com FictionDB.com OrderOfBooks.com StopYoureKillingMe.com Vintage Series Books for Girls . . . and a Few for Boys BookSeriesFinder.com