Around 50 new titles are produced each year, including a handful of limited editions. Its earlier, out-of-print editions are also updated for new audiences: in 1968, Folio’s edition of Monkey, the Chinese fantasy folk tale by Wu Cheng’en, was illustrated by Duncan Grant the upcoming imprint features artwork by Chinese-American illustrator Mu Pan. In 1948, Mervyn Peake illustrated Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde this year, Peake’s own fantasy trilogy, Gormenghast, was illustrated by Dave McKean – and both books are still strong sellers. The Tale of Peter Rabbit includes a facsimile of Beatrix Potter’s own handwritten maquette (limited edition of 1,000), £325 © The Folio Societyįolio’s catalogue is eclectic, and that extends to its choice of illustrators and introducers – from Animal Farm (illustrated by Quentin Blake in 1984) to Tales from the 1,001 Nights (with Salvador Dalí’s ’60s watercolours), Nursery Rhymes (with etchings by Paula Rego) to De Profundis (introduced by Patti Smith). Books by The Folio Society take years to create because no detail is too small to be debated. Each has original artwork, fonts, bindings and introductions, and is encased in a bespoke slipcase or clamshell box. Today, inside the publishing house’s offices in an elegant 1930s warehouse in Bermondsey, floor-to-ceiling shelves contain a rainbow of fiction and non-fiction that the company has newly published as illustrated editions. Ede believed that commercial books could – and should – be produced to the highest standards. This year, The Folio Society has been celebrating 75 years since Charles Ede founded it in 1947. You can’t get what Folio does in a bookshop.” “But Folio is doing it to a different level. “We are going through a golden age of book design,” says Walker. It went on sale in October (£85), just weeks after her death an additional limited run of 250 copies signed by the author (£200) sold out “within minutes”. Hilary Mantel called it “the ultimate edition of Wolf Hall”. “Finding an illustrator to match that vision was really challenging. “ was deeply involved in its production and very thoughtful about how she wanted it to be represented,” says Folio’s publishing director Tom Walker. Bound in rich blue-and-gold blocked cloth with gilded edges, it has full-page illustrations by artists Igor & Marina that have a sketch-like, nuanced quality echoing works by Holbein – which Mantel had said reflected the Thomas Cromwell she wanted her readers to envisage. The Folio Society’s illustrated edition of the late Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall is a thing of wonder. SKU: BTETM0002330 Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg: Please email for Photographs or further information.Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A new edition of the original ?Old English? text, with facing page translation by Seamus Heaney. Longlisted for #worldillustrationawards2022 Format: Hardcover, Language: English Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket Published By: Folio Society, UK Imperial octavo (8vo 8+1?4 × 11+1?2 210 × 292),Pages 218 ISBN: The Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf is one of the great Northern epics and a classic of European literature. Heaney's prize-winning translation of Beowulf (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000, Whitbread Book of the Year Award) was considered groundbreaking in its use of modern language melded with the original Anglo-Saxon "music" Illustrated By: Rebecca Thorne Illustrator and Printmaker. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Some damage to slipcase, book in very good+ condition, unread Please see photos as part of condition report 2010 1st Edition (Thus), BEOWULF A Verse Translation By Seamus Heaney Seamus Justin Heaney MRIA (13 April 1939 ? 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. Very Good - Quarter bound in leather with cloth sides and slip case.
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