2014 Book Illustration Competition | Folio speaks to the winner Sean McSorley
Folio Art Director Sheri Gee speaks to Sean McSorley, winner of the 2014 Book Illustration Competition, about his work on our new edition of Joseph ...
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Calligrapher Ewan Clayton discusses In Parenthesis
Calligrapher Ewan Clayton discusses his astonishing work on our new edition of David Jones’s In Parenthesis, one of the First World War’s most celebrated ...
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Library Stories | Anne P. Fenton
In Library Stories we investigate the tales behind your book collections and book rooms, visiting the homes of Folio members, collectors and enthusiasts from around ...
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Library Stories | Anne P. Fenton
In Library Stories we investigate the tales behind your book collections and book rooms, visiting the homes of Folio members, collectors and enthusiasts from around ...
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The human side of Nineteen Eighty-Four
I first read George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four in my early twenties. I was struck by its powerful ideas and have found them impossible to shake ...
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Reproducing Songs of Innocence and of Experience from the finest copy
Folio’s edition of Songs of Innocence and of Experience is reproduced from one of the finest surviving copies, known as ‘Copy W’, now held at King’s College, University of Cambridge. In this blog, Folio’s Production Director Kate Grimwade explains how she matched our edition as closely as possible to Blake’s original manuscript.
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‘These illustrations look like the inside of my own head’
In this blog, Becky Chambers, author of The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, shares her reaction to seeing some of Zoë van Dijk’s vivid illustrations for the Folio edition of her incredible novel.
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Which Marvel Hero would you invite for the holidays?
Depending on your family traditions and the extent of your invites, festive dinners can either be a raucous free-for-all or a calm culinary extravaganza. But whatever the scene, every dining table would be livened up with a Marvel Super Hero. From extraordinary strength to healing potions and a magic hammer, scroll down to discover who could be tucking into turkey at your house this year.