During the late 1930s and throughout the 1940s, Meynell ceded control of the press to George Macy, founder and owner of the Limited Editions Club.
In the early 1950s, however, Meynell united with the owner of The Bodley Head, Max Reinhardt, and resumed control of Nonesuch.
[3] The purpose of this method was to produce book designs with the quality of a fine-press but available to a wider audience at lower prices.
[citation needed] In November 2005, Barnes & Noble issued reprints of the Nonesuch editions of Charles Dickens's novels, including Bleak House, Great Expectations and Hard Times, the Christmas Books, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, and Nicholas Nickleby.
The Week-End Book was a single volume anthology of general reading designed for a weekend away in a cottage or on a boat.