This Folio Life: Creating the facsimile of Love is Enough
One of the most challenging elements of facsimile publication is the reproduction work required. The Morgan Library & Museum in New York, where the original copy ...
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This Folio Life: The winner of the Book Illustration Competition 2018
Judging the Book Illustration Competition is a unique experience. Where else would you get to see over 400 variations on a theme? This year’s entrants ...
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This Folio Life: Selecting an edition of The Golden Bough
Owing to its propensity to grow and grow and grow, A. E. Houseman once described James Frazer’s The Golden Bough as ‘a banyan tree’. The ...
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This Folio Life: Choosing the images for our 2018 Diary
The Folio Diary 2018 features all things medieval, with 55 full-page images ranging from the everyday, such as the doodles of scribes testing their pens, ...
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This Folio Life: 2017
2017 was a happy year for Folio. Pivoting around our seventieth anniversary celebrations, we looked back to our early days in a delightful display still ...
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This Folio Life: A blog 65 million years in the making
We asked American palaeontologist Steve Brusatte to ensure that the illustrations for Folio’s edition were as accurate as they could be while still reflecting the world of Crichton's Jurassic Park. Here, Steve talks us through this process.
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This Folio Life: Revisiting John Burningham’s classic illustrations
This time last year I was enormously fortunate to go to the house of Helen Oxenbury, one of my favourite children’s authors and illustrators, and the widow of John Burningham.
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This Folio Life: Illustrating Winston Churchill
“With most book covers, you're trying to convey a concept rather than a person, but this was the opposite,” says illustrator Peter Strain.