Primetime TV appearance for Folio's Twelve Cæsars

In last Sunday's episode of ITV's popular detective series Endeavour, set in 1960s Oxford, the eponymous hero is sent under cover to investigate the disappearance of a teacher at a nearby English public school (that's 'public' used as shorthand for 'private and expensive'). At one point he is surprised to find of one of the pupils (they weren't called students back then) sitting in a corridor reading:

The series is full of in-jokes. In this case it's the boy's surname:

Equally jokey is the name of the missing teacher's wife, Kate Ivory. Kate Ivory was the heroine of a series of detective stories also set in Oxford and written between 1993 and 2011 by Veronica Stallwood. They are sharp and witty but never, alas, adapted for television.
(I think that FS edition of The Twelve Cæsars has been reprinted several times, but I can't remember if it appeared in that binding back in the 1960s.)

Yes, I enjoyed a quiet chuckle when I spotted that on Sunday evening. It was first published by Folio in 1964 and by the time of Folio 60 there had been fourteen printings. Folio 21 noted two binding variants, one without the blue part of the design on the boards (I'm guessing the copy in the pic above is that one) and the other with "Society" added after "Folio", both following the same design as the original. "The Rise and Fall of Athens", first published in 1967, followed the same style.

Someone in the props department for these series may have a liking for FS books, or they may just find book props from that expensive stockist of FS books on Turl Street, as I recall see a FS edition of Frankenstein on Lewis (the sequel to Morse, as Endeavour is the prequel).

>3 CarltonC:
Perhaps Colin Dexter was a member and Props borrowed them from his library!

>2 folio_books: "Folio 21 noted two binding variants, one without the blue part of the design on the boards (I'm guessing the copy in the pic above is that one) and the other with "Society" added after "Folio", both following the same design as the original."

Yes, the picture in Folio 21 (without the bands of blue behind the medallions) is identical to the prop copy. I have my late father's copy, a "third impression 1966" which has the word "Society" added to the spine imprint.

The 12C was the first FS book I bought around 2003. But mine (no medals on the cover) has its title running from top to bottom on the spine. Does it mean that in the 1960s this edition had the title running the other way, or that the guy is reading the book upside down?

>6 Pepys: Does it mean that in the 1960s this edition had the title running the other way

Yes, in common with all Folios of this period. I think it was the 80s before they reversed direction.

>7 folio_books: Then, I will never buy FS books published before the 80s, because I dislike turning my head left and right, may it please drasvola and his favorite morning exercises.

>8 Pepys: I dislike turning my head left and right

Or you could shelve the "wrong" ones upside down.

>5 boldface:

Just lifted mine down and I find it is a 1997 printing. I was thinking it looked in remarkably new condition for a 1964 book. They must have used the 1964 edition as a template as there is no "Society". Pretty much like now, all Folio, no Society.

>8 Pepys:

Hahaha; nice of you to remember my exercises François.