Illustrated by La Boca
Introduced by Elif Shafak
Over a Third Sold
Folio presents 75th anniversary limited edition of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, one of the most influential books ever and a timeless dystopian novel, reissued in a year set to become the most relevant in the book’s history.
‘Among all [Orwell’s] books, the one that has left the deepest impact on generations of readers across borders is, no doubt, Nineteen Eighty-Four.’
- Elif Shafak, from her introduction
Big Brother, Thoughtcrime, Newspeak, Doublethink, Room 101. The ominous jargon coined by George Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-Four, his last and greatest novel, are understood even by those who have yet to read the book. Marking 75 years after initial publication in 1949, from post-war to post-Brexit, Folio presents a revolutionary limited edition of one of the most influential novels ever written. Published in an election year that promises to be a pivotal one in the book’s history, the dystopian warnings of Nineteen Eighty-Four feel even more urgent and terrifyingly familiar. Created with full approval of the Orwell Foundation, with a stirring introduction by Elif Shafak, the award-winning British-Turkish author of The Forty Rules of Love – and whose novel The Bastard of Istanbul brought censure from the Turkish government – this momentous edition casts a fresh, more diverse light on Orwell’s universal text.
A two-man team from multi-award-winning design studio La Boca have contributed eight kaleidoscopic new illustrations, along with a striking endpaper design and a hypnotic foil-blocked cover. Encased in a mirrored presentation box that holds several, subversive hidden extras, this unique edition has been designed to unpack the book’s ideas like never before. Strictly limited to 750 hand-numbered copies signed by Elif Shafak and La Boca, this special anniversary edition sheds a new and galvanising light on this timeless dystopian novel, a book that demands to be read and re-read for generations to come.
Limited to 750 hand-numbered copies
Limitation tip printed letterpress on Arena Smooth paper and signed by Elif Shafak and La Boca
Bound in metallic silver paper screen-printed in 3 colours with a design by the artist
8 illustrations printed on Tatami Ivory paper
Printed page edges
Ribbon marker
Ispira endpapers printed with a design by the artist
Presentation box bound in screen-printed metallic paper
Exclusive print, stickers and patch within a presentation folder
Set in Nexus Serif with Ayer Deck Bold as display and sections set in Broadsheet
Main text printed in 2-colours on Munken Pure paper
320 pages
10.5˝ x 8.5˝
‘Profoundly important.’
- Aldous Huxley
This unique limited edition embraces that universal breadth of influence, reflected foremost in a bracingly personal introduction by controversial British-Turkish author Elif Shafak, who speaks for those from countries where Orwell’s novel was read not as a warning, but a statement of current affairs. The kaleidoscopic design of this edition explores its own version of Orwell’s story. From the cover dominated by the mosaic of an all-seeing eye, La Boca’s boldly symbolic illustrations place you directly inside Orwell’s propaganda-haunted world. The watchful mirrored cover of the presentation box opens with not only a warning that Big Brother is watching, but also a hidden dossier containing an exclusive print, stickers and wearable patch.
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