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Posted on 04/06/2020
In our latest blog we explore an ancient bookmaking technique that ensured our limited edition The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman was a truly authentic tribute to the original novel. …
READ MOREPosted on 07/04/2020
Every Folio edition goes on a long and fascinating journey before its publication day, but Babar’s travels were particularly adventurous. Our story begins about five years ago in The Morgan Library …
READ MOREPosted on 04/07/2019
One of the many challenges the Production team faced when undertaking to reproduce Kitagawa Utamaro’s Studies from Nature was how to recreate in our facsimile the texture of the relief printing, which …
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Posted on 18/06/2019
Our April limited edition, London and New York, consists of reproductions of rare photography by Alvin Langdon Coburn: a genius who destroyed most of his glass and film negatives later in his life. …
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Posted on 22/01/2019
Last year saw Folio publish many amazing books: from old English poetry to Ursula K. Le Guin, to an original title from illustrator Charles van Sandwyk. With the first beautiful new books of 2019 to b …
READ MOREPosted on 31/10/2018
Neil Bousfield’s sensitive work was the perfect commission for the third and final book in Folio’s limited edition War Poets series. Neil lives in Norfolk, fortuitously the same county as Victoria Hal …
READ MOREPosted on 19/10/2018
Arthur Rackham is renowned throughout the world for his beautiful illustrations to some of the most famous fairy tales; images that enchant the reader. But it was on a recent research trip to New York …
READ MOREPosted on 03/07/2018
Back in 2014, when Folio art director Sheri Gee was chairing a panel discussion at the Society of Illustrators in New York, she asked the panellists: ‘If you could illustrate any book, what would it b …
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Posted on 23/05/2018
I recently went down to Dartmoor to interview Alan Lee about his epic illustrations for The Wanderer and other Old English Poems. Widely regarded as a recluse (thanks in large measure to a rather misl …
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Posted on 23/03/2018
One of the most challenging elements of facsimile publication is the reproduction work required. The Morgan Library & Museum in New York, where the original copy of Love is Enough is held, photogr …
READ MOREPosted on 05/12/2017
About six years ago I was asked by David Chambers, then editor of The Private Library, if I would like to contribute an article about Folio limited editions. The Private Library being a distinguished …
READ MOREPosted on 12/05/2015
The special hand-bound limited edition of The Duke’s Children On 23 April the British Library hosted an evening dedicated to the life and work of Anthony Trollope. A distinguished panel of experts and …
READ MOREPosted on 30/10/2014
It is a remarkable fact that one of the best-known novels by one of the greatest 19th-century English novelists has never been published in the form its author intended. Anthony Trollope wrote The Duk …
READ MOREPosted on 30/10/2014
It is a remarkable fact that one of the best-known novels by one of the greatest 19th-century English novelists has never been published in the form its author intended. Anthony Trollope wrote The Duk …
READ MOREPosted on 24/10/2014
This article first appeared in the Folio magazine’s Autumn 2014 issue. Sue Clifford and Angela King, founders of Common Ground, celebrate the history and variety of the apple in Britain. How did it ha …
READ MOREPosted on 24/10/2014
This article first appeared in the Folio magazine’s Autumn 2014 issue. Sue Clifford and Angela King, founders of Common Ground, celebrate the history and variety of the apple in Britain. How did it ha …
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