Friday, 13 September 2013
I had a visit yesterday from Charles van Sandwyk, who has come over from Vancouver to research his latest project. This collection of objects I ...
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Seamus Heaney 1939-2013
[caption id="attachment_1071" align="alignright" width="224"] Seamus Heaney, 1970.(© Simon Garbutt)[/caption] The outpouring of tributes to Seamus Heaney, who died at the age of 74 on ...
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Friday, 9 August 2013
Just back from a week’s trekking in Iceland. I first became fascinated by this wild and majestic country when reading the sagas as a student ...
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Friday, 24 May 2013
Went to Oxford to brief the Bodleian photographer for our facsimile edition of William Morris’s manuscript of the Odes of Horace. The biggest difficulty in ...
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Thursday, 21 March 2013
Just back from the Prints and Drawings department at the British Museum, where we were looking at one of their great treasures, the unique volume ...
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This Folio Life: 7 tips for choosing the perfect birthday gift
A beautiful book is the perfect gift for the bibliophile in your life but how do you go about choosing the right one? Folio books are designed to last a lifetime, so it’s even more important to carefully select the edition that’s going to be around for the long term. Here are our top tips for choosing the ideal gift.
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The Folio Book Illustration Award Longlist Revealed
Launched to mark The Folio Society’s 75th anniversary, the Book Illustration Award aims to showcase illustration talent from around the world in the field of narrative fiction. 686 illustrators entered from 56 countries, representing a diverse range of backgrounds and professional experience, with 20 outstanding entries selected for the longlist.
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Gérard DuBois becomes the overall 2022 winner at this year's V&A Illustration Awards for his work with The Folio Society
Gérard DuBois has won in the Book Illustration category and has been awarded the Moira Gemmill Illustrator of the Year Prize for his work on The Folio Society's edition of The Road at this year's V&A Illustration Awards. Judge Posy Simmonds described DuBois's stunning illustrations as ‘magnificent, rich, poignant and melancholic’.