This Folio Life: Reader’s Choice
Folio’s raison d’être is to publish the books Folio readers most love, in a form worthy of their contents. In order to find out which ...
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This Folio Life: ‘Were You There on 6 June 1944?’
We published Cornelius Ryan’s The Longest Day this year to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day. James Rose, editor of our edition, explores here how ...
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This Folio Life: How we crafted Utamaro's blind blocking
One of the many challenges the Production team faced when undertaking to reproduce Kitagawa Utamaro’s Studies from Nature was how to recreate in our facsimile ...
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This Folio Life: The genius behind London and New York
Our April limited edition, London and New York, consists of reproductions of rare photography by Alvin Langdon Coburn: a genius who destroyed most of his ...
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This Folio Life: Designing Sophie’s World
When Charlotte Tate, Folio’s designer, and Sophie Lewis, editor for Folio’s edition of Sophie’s World, began to consider how we could publish this work, they ...
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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.