The Folio Society: a brief history
It’s Folio’s birthday this month – 66 years since Charles Ede presented the very first edition: Tales by Tolstoy. To celebrate we approached Sue Bradbury, ...
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Tuesday, 1 October 2013
Quentin Blake has just spent two days in the office signing every copy of La Fontaine with remarkable cheerfulness. As I was leaving the office ...
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The Folio Society at the Edinburgh Book Festival
We were delighted to support the Edinburgh Book Festival for the third consecutive year, this time as a headline sponsor. Our sponsored events featured acclaimed ...
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Friday, 13 September 2013
I had a visit yesterday from Charles van Sandwyk, who has come over from Vancouver to research his latest project. This collection of objects I ...
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Seamus Heaney 1939-2013
[caption id="attachment_1071" align="alignright" width="224"] Seamus Heaney, 1970.(© Simon Garbutt)[/caption] The outpouring of tributes to Seamus Heaney, who died at the age of 74 on ...
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Philip Pullman on illustrating his own story
The Folio edition of The Northern Lights (or The Golden Compass in the US and Canada) includes illustrations drawn by the brilliant Philip Pullman. In this blog, Pullman explains for Folio readers how he created these incredible black-and-white images, and the inspiration behind them.
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Gorgeous Gifts for Students: Celebrate Success with a Folio Edition
It’s that time of year when millions of young people are tentatively peeling open envelopes that will lead them towards the next stage in their life. Whatever the outcome, the years of study and surviving the stressful exam period are worthy of celebration … and what better gift than a beautiful book?
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Illustrating The Innocents Abroad
Award-winning illustrator James Albon captured the eccentricities of Mark Twain’s The Innocents Abroad with a series of stylish colour and black-and-white lino-cuts. Here, Albon shares his artistic process and how he approached this exciting project.