
This Folio Life: A Diary of Engraving Maigret
It can be easy to forget just how much work our illustrators put into our editions. We exclaim over the stunning final results, but the ...
It can be easy to forget just how much work our illustrators put into our editions. We exclaim over the stunning final results, but the ...
Joe McLaren, working in consultation with Brian Lavery, former curator of Maritime History at the National Museum, Greenwich, created a series of characterful illustrations that ...
Raquel Leis Allion has been Art Director at the Folio Society for nearly four years. It’s her to job to commission illustrators and that means ...
Raquel Leis Allion has been Art Director at the Folio Society for nearly four years. It’s her to job to commission illustrators and that means ...
Choosing the right illustrator for a commission is only half the story. Though we may appear to have found the perfect match of visual tone ...
Peter Forster, who died in January, was one of the outstanding wood engravers of the late 20th century. Much of his best work was produced for the Folio Society: between 1986 and 2003 he illustrated seven complete Folio volumes and contributed to three multi-artist publications.
‘Unpredictable changes have always taken place’, I wrote towards the end of my Afterword to The Stories of English. I penned that in November 2019. And three months later? Everyone knows.
We are so pleased to bring Charles van Sandwyk’s charming fairy letters to life in two beautiful Folio editions. It was a challenging project in terms of book production, with the journey to finished copies made even more complex due to working under the restrictions of COVID-19.