This Folio Life: Restoring The Velveteen Rabbit
Folio had been keen to create a Folio Society Velveteen Rabbit for a while – but how best to shape a stand-out edition of this ...
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This Folio Life: Reader’s Choice
Folio’s raison d’être is to publish the books Folio readers most love, in a form worthy of their contents. In order to find out which ...
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This Folio Life: ‘Were You There on 6 June 1944?’
We published Cornelius Ryan’s The Longest Day this year to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day. James Rose, editor of our edition, explores here how ...
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This Folio Life: How we crafted Utamaro's blind blocking
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 ...
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This Folio Life: The genius behind London and New York
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 ...
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This Folio Life: Illustrating Murakami’s riddles
Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami’s magical realist books have sold millions of copies worldwide and earned him a reputation as one of the greatest contemporary authors. We were very excited indeed to be publishing his work, and Kafka on the Shore is the perfect introduction to a unique and addictive style. But how would we decipher this story of unsolved riddles in an illustrated edition?
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This Folio Life: Christmas and the Unicorn
Unicorns have not always been associated with glitter and sparkles. In fact, the beast held great religious significance in Western art before it was ever associated with youthfulness and innocence. Non-fiction publisher Mandy Kirkby traces the history of the unicorn, as told in John Cherry’s Mythical Beasts.
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This Folio Life: Painting The Living Mountain during lockdown
When Art Director Sheri Gee approached Rose Strang to illustrate The Living Mountain, the artist was thrilled. However, in order to carry out the commission, she would need to visit the mountains and there was the small issue of a national lockdown to overcome.