The Art of Letterpress - Crafting a beautiful book
Stan Lane, a master Typesetter and Printer, talked to us about the process of printing our Letterpress Shakespeare series.
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William Trevor on James Joyce's Araby
This article first appeared in the Folio magazine's Spring 2013 issue. The article is accompanied by the short story 'Araby', with specially commissioned ...
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William Trevor on James Joyce's Araby
This article first appeared in the Folio magazine's Spring 2013 issue. The article is accompanied by the short story 'Araby', with specially commissioned ...
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Monday, 2 June 2014
To launch The Toilers of the Sea I travelled to Guernsey – naturally enough, since the novel was both written and set there; we held ...
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Building the new Booth's Bookshop Reading Room
For the past few weeks, the Folio offices have been a tangle of Papier Mâché, wood shavings and glue as we prepare to open the new ...
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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.