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Bound in screen-printed buckramPrinted book edges
Blocked slipcase with a printed lining
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10 inches x 7½ inchesFont
Typeset in Nexus Serif Pro with Ayer Deck as DisplayPages
312Author
George OrwellIllustrated by
La BocaIllustration
Frontispiece; Seven colour illustrationsPublication Date
21/10/2025Production Details
About the Book
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About the Illustrator
La Boca is an independent design studio established in 2002, specialising in illustration and image-making. They strive to create emotional connections through their work and value any part they can play in contributing to popular culture. They have worked with a wide spectrum of international clients on projects ranging from limited-edition record sleeves to full-scale campaigns drawing on almost every type of media.
They are multi-award-winners, having garnered prizes from D&AD, Cannes Lions, European Design Awards, ADC Awards and AIGA; as well as the British Book Awards for the cover design of Folio's Ubik (1969, Folio 2019), and a Dezeen award for their work on Folio's The Complete Stories of Philip K Dick (1987; Folio 2021).
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About the Illustrator
La Boca is an independent design studio established in 2002, specialising in illustration and image-making. They strive to create emotional connections through their work and value any part they can play in contributing to popular culture. They have worked with a wide spectrum of international clients on projects ranging from limited-edition record sleeves to full-scale campaigns drawing on almost every type of media.
They are multi-award-winners, having garnered prizes from D&AD, Cannes Lions, European Design Awards, ADC Awards and AIGA; as well as the British Book Awards for the cover design of Folio's Ubik (1969, Folio 2019), and a Dezeen award for their work on Folio's The Complete Stories of Philip K Dick (1987; Folio 2021).
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About the Illustrator
La Boca is an independent design studio established in 2002, specialising in illustration and image-making. They strive to create emotional connections through their work and value any part they can play in contributing to popular culture. They have worked with a wide spectrum of international clients on projects ranging from limited-edition record sleeves to full-scale campaigns drawing on almost every type of media.
They are multi-award-winners, having garnered prizes from D&AD, Cannes Lions, European Design Awards, ADC Awards and AIGA; as well as the British Book Awards for the cover design of Folio's Ubik (1969, Folio 2019), and a Dezeen award for their work on Folio's The Complete Stories of Philip K Dick (1987; Folio 2021).
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About the Illustrator
La Boca is an independent design studio established in 2002, specialising in illustration and image-making. They strive to create emotional connections through their work and value any part they can play in contributing to popular culture. They have worked with a wide spectrum of international clients on projects ranging from limited-edition record sleeves to full-scale campaigns drawing on almost every type of media.
They are multi-award-winners, having garnered prizes from D&AD, Cannes Lions, European Design Awards, ADC Awards and AIGA; as well as the British Book Awards for the cover design of Folio's Ubik (1969, Folio 2019), and a Dezeen award for their work on Folio's The Complete Stories of Philip K Dick (1987; Folio 2021).
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About the Illustrator
La Boca is an independent design studio established in 2002, specialising in illustration and image-making. They strive to create emotional connections through their work and value any part they can play in contributing to popular culture. They have worked with a wide spectrum of international clients on projects ranging from limited-edition record sleeves to full-scale campaigns drawing on almost every type of media.
They are multi-award-winners, having garnered prizes from D&AD, Cannes Lions, European Design Awards, ADC Awards and AIGA; as well as the British Book Awards for the cover design of Folio's Ubik (1969, Folio 2019), and a Dezeen award for their work on Folio's The Complete Stories of Philip K Dick (1987; Folio 2021).
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About the Author
George Orwell
George Orwell (1903–50) was born Eric Arthur Blair in Motihari, India (where his father worked for the Civil Service) into what he would later call a ‘lower-upper-middle class’ family. The family returned to England in 1907 and, after studying at Eton, Orwell joined the Indian Imperial Police Force in Burma. Whilst in Burma he developed a critical attitude towards authority, which he evoked in his first novel, Burmese Days (1934). He resigned from the police force in 1927 and took to exploring the poverty of his home country with a view to becoming a writer. He lived in Paris for two years before returning to England, where he worked successively as a private tutor, schoolteacher and bookshop assistant, and contributed reviews and articles to a number of periodicals.
His first work of non-fiction, Down and Out in Paris and London , was published in 1936, and in the same year he was commissioned by Victor Gollancz to visit areas of mass unemployment in Lancashire and Yorkshire. The Road to Wigan Pier (1937) was his powerful description of the poverty he saw there. He fought in the Spanish Civil War, experiencing the factionalism breaking apart the Republican cause and became virulently anti-Communist, a stance reflected in his Homage to Catalonia (1938). During the Second World War Orwell served in the Home Guard and worked for the BBC Eastern Service. As literary editor of Tribune , he contributed a regular page of political and literary commentary and also wrote for The Observer and Manchester Evening News . His political satire Animal Farm was published shortly after the end of the war in 1945, and it was this novel, together with Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949, Folio 2014), that brought him worldwide fame. Orwell’s letters and diaries have been published posthumously by The Folio Society as an exclusive edition, selected and introduced by Orwell expert Peter Davison.