Book Illustration Competition 2017: We hear from past finalists
With less than three weeks to go until the deadline for our annual Book Illustration Competition, in partnership with The Folio Society, we caught up ...
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Book Illustration Competition 2017: Illustrators share their research processes
Thinking of entering our Book Illustration Competition? This year’s book is Mansfield Park by Jane Austen, but how do you go about turning a classic ...
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Tuesday, 4th October 2016
Last week I drove with my colleague Christine to Bayeux, with the prototype of our new edition of The Bayeux Tapestry loaded in the back ...
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This Folio Life: Illustrating The Great Escape
The Great Escape is a truly gripping account of the most famous mass escape in prisoner-of-war history. To illustrate this story of triumph and tragedy ...
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This Folio Life: A ghostly new Collectable
[caption id="attachment_4435" align="alignright" width="150"] Mandy Kirkby, Non-Fiction Publisher[/caption] Next autumn we’ll be publishing a collection of M. R. James’s sublime ghost stories in the Folio ...
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The Folio Life: An obituary for Peter Forster (1934–2021)
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.
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This Folio Life: Lexical pandemiconium
‘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.
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This Folio Life: Letters from lockdown
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.