The Folio Life: Illustrating the children’s classic Black Beauty
Annette Hamley Jenkins was commissioned to illustrate our new, beautiful edition of Anna Sewell’s classic Black Beauty. Her illustration style, not to mention her ability ...
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This Folio Life: Honouring the poems of Wilfred Owen
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, ...
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This Folio Life: Recreating Cinderella and The Sleeping Beauty
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 ...
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This Folio Life: Mapping Captain Cook
Maps are an incredibly important part of any edition that deals in exploration or travel. To celebrate the 250th anniversary of Captain Cook’s first voyage, ...
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The World’s Greatest Books … according to Folio
If bookshelves could talk, what would they ask to be filled with? Would they love to be weighed down with the words of Shakespeare, proudly ...
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The Folio Society announce move to Employee Ownership Trust
Following five very successful years of consistent growth, bold publishing and innovative marketing, The Folio Society today announced the sale of the publisher to its employees under the terms of an ‘EOT’, giving employees 100% ownership of the company.
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This Folio Life: Celebrating 60 years of James and the Giant Peach
How did Roald Dahl become Roald Dahl? Biographer and Chair of Trustees of Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity, Donald Sturrock, uncovers the creative journey behind James and the Giant Peach and how an unlikely suggestion by Dahl’s agent changed his life’s path forever.
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This Folio Life: Lela Harris on illustrating The Color Purple
We spoke to self-taught artist Lela Harris about her experience of creating her astounding artwork for The Folio Society edition of The Color Purple.