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: Designing Sophie’s World
When Charlotte Tate, Folio’s designer, and Sophie Lewis, editor for Folio’s edition of Sophie’s World, began to consider how we could publish this work, they ...
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This Folio Life: The art, geometry and purpose of portraying buildings
Renowned architectural illustrator John Pumfrey designed the beautiful wraparound cover design for our edition of Life in the English Country House. Picturing a classic English ...
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This Folio Life: From Salamanca to Maynooth, the adventures of a Tudor portrait
Our new edition of The Tudor Age includes 20 full-colour portraits of some of the great figures of the era. Folio worked closely with author Susan Brigden to select the images, and here she tells the remarkable story behind one of her favourite portraits.
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This Folio Life: A celebration of Ursula K. Le Guin
The Earthsea Cycle has been published in many formats, but arguably none more in keeping with Ursula K. Le Guin’s original intentions for her work than the new illustrated series from Folio. Committing to publishing all six titles in The Earthsea Cycle over the next two years, Publishing Director Tom Walker explores the importance of Ursula K. Le Guin’s writing and why this is such a significant series for Folio.
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This Folio Life: Fathers in fiction
To celebrate Father’s Day, it’s the turn of fictional dads to take the limelight. From classic novels to dystopia, crime and children’s favourites, there are fun and formidable father figures who stand out on the page and are etched in our memories. Here are a few of our favourites.