BEATLES - The Beatles Collection

Item Description

Box Set,
Compilation Reissue

Made in England ©1978
This box reissue: 1983
Spine of box should have UK "BC 13" catalog number, EU "0C 162-53163/53176" catalog number.

LP01: Please Please Me (PCS 3042) ℗1963 Parlophone
LP02: With The Beatles (PCS 3045) ℗1963 Parlophone
LP03: A Hard Day's Night (PCS 3058) ℗1964 Parlophone
LP04: Beatles for Sale (PCS 3062) ℗1964 Parlophone
LP05: Help! (PCS 3071) ℗1965 Parlophone
LP06: Rubber Soul (PCS 3075) ℗1965 ©1986 Parlophone
LP07: Revolver (PCS 7009) ℗1966 Parlophone
LP08: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (PCS 7027) ℗1967 Parlophone
LP09: The Beatles (White Album, PCS 7067-8) ℗1968 Apple
LP10: Yellow Submarine (PCS 7070) ℗1966, ℗1967, ℗1969 Apple
LP11: Abbey Road (PCS 7088) ℗1969 Apple
LP12: Let It Be (PCS 7096) ℗1970 Apple
LP13: "Rarities" (PSLP 261) ℗1963, ℗1964, ℗1965, ℗1966, ℗1968, ℗1969, ℗1970, ℗1978 Parlophone

Blue imitation leather-cardboard box with gold lettering, containing 12 original (11 x 1 LP, 1 x 2LP) and 1 compilation albums.
Includes LP09 ('The Beatles' AKA 'White Album') lyrics sheet/colour poster and four individual colour photos.
The 'White Album' (LP09) has a neutral white, glossy sleeve with an embossed title on the front.
'Sampler album not for sale' lettering in golden band on back cover of "Rarities".

The rimtext on labels is started with “ALL RIGHTS OF THE PRODUCER…”. Around the 11 o’clock position in the rimtext the wording is: “…UNAUTHORISED PUBLIC PERFORMANCE, BROADCASTING, COPYING AND HIRING…”. Added “MANUFACTURED IN THE UK BY EMI RECORDS LIMITED” text at the end of the perimeter print. This label used between October 1980 and April 1984.
The inner sleeves indicate either 1982 or 1983.

These differences make it possible to identify this release as earlier than [r10216966] and [r25194883]