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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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.