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We Have Select Folio Society books FOR SALE!

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The Folio Society was Founded in 1947 'to Produce editions of the world's great literature, in a format worthy of the contents, at a price within the reach of everyman'. Half a century, and over a thousand books later, the name Folio has become synonymous with affordable fine editions -- books chosen for their enduring worth, handsomely designed, illustrated and bound, which reflect not just the traditional skills of the book-maker's art but also the tremendous possibilities opened up by new technology. . . .  (a)

 

All Modern Editions feature:

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  • Handsome artist-commissioned illustrations (fiction titles)

  • Researched artwork and photographs (non-fiction titles)

  • High quality bindings (Buckram, silk, etc.)

  • Handcrafted finishing

  • Hardcover slipcases (all but Collectables) 

 

 

The Folio Society is a privately owned London-based publisher . . . [that] for many years . . . had a bookshop in Holborn, London, . . . [closing] in December 2016 when the company moved premises. Folio editions can be purchased only online through their website, by post or over the telephone. Some editions are stocked by independent bookstores, by Blackwell's in Oxford, and by Selfridges, Harrods and Hatchards in London.  

The Art of War by Sun Tzu

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Folio publications are printed in a range of standard sizes (in 1951, for example, these included Royal Octavo, Medium Octavo, Crown Octavo and Demy Octavo), and custom sizes are also employed. The most common material for bindings is buckram or a similar bookcloth, but there are many exceptions: aluminium foil was used in binding Aldous Huxley's Brave New World in 1971, and vegetable parchment in

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

binding Voltaire's The Calas Affair in 1994; more commonly, marbled papers (often produced by Ann Muir Marbling Ltd.) have been used for several volumes in recent years, either as endpapers or as board-papers of quarter bindings; moiré silk (usually artificial) has been used sporadically over the years as a binding material, and leather

Folio Society

(vellum and goatskin) and bonded leather are sometimes used, chiefly for the more expensive editions. Most bindings for works of fiction are designed by the

illustrator. Non-fiction binding designers include David Eccles, Jeff Clements, and Neil Gower. . . . (b)

The above text derives from, respectively, (a) Folio Press (via Google Books) and (b) Wikipedia.

[Bradbury, Sue. Folio 50: A Bibliography of the Folio Society, 1947-1996. United Kingdom: Folio Press, 1997.]

Illustrations derived from www.secondhandsomebooks.com.

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