Library Stories: Edward Halpern
In Library Stories we investigate the tales behind your book collections and book rooms, visiting the homes of Folio members, collectors and enthusiasts from around ...
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Winners of the Anthony Trollope Prize Draw
[caption id="attachment_3058" align="alignright" width="230"] The special hand-bound limited edition of The Duke's Children[/caption] On 23 April the British Library hosted an evening dedicated to the ...
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Apsley House: Home for a Hero
How Wellington's former home testifies to status in Britain and beyond. [caption id="attachment_2916" align="alignleft" width="350"] Waterloo Gallery, Apsley House. (© English Heritage)[/caption] The 1st Duke ...
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The Deathly Appeal of Edgar Allan Poe
How fear runs through his timeless short stories, and his only completed novel. ‘Horror and fatality’, writes Poe in ‘Metzengerstein’, his first published short story, ...
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Shackleton’s Boat Journey – Fact and Fiction in the Visual Record of the Rescue
Senior Picture Editor Julie McMahon researched the photographs featured in our edition of Shackleton’s Boat Journey. Here she tell the story behind one crucial and seemingly ...
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Reproducing Songs of Innocence and of Experience from the finest copy
Folio’s edition of Songs of Innocence and of Experience is reproduced from one of the finest surviving copies, known as ‘Copy W’, now held at King’s College, University of Cambridge. In this blog, Folio’s Production Director Kate Grimwade explains how she matched our edition as closely as possible to Blake’s original manuscript.
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‘These illustrations look like the inside of my own head’
In this blog, Becky Chambers, author of The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, shares her reaction to seeing some of Zoë van Dijk’s vivid illustrations for the Folio edition of her incredible novel.
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Which Marvel Hero would you invite for the holidays?
Depending on your family traditions and the extent of your invites, festive dinners can either be a raucous free-for-all or a calm culinary extravaganza. But whatever the scene, every dining table would be livened up with a Marvel Super Hero. From extraordinary strength to healing potions and a magic hammer, scroll down to discover who could be tucking into turkey at your house this year.