There was a display of draft prints and covers showing the different stages of how the books were made. The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë The Great War and Modern Memory by Paul Fussell Finnegans Wake by James Joyce Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams Fear and Trembling by Søren Kierkegaard The Voyage of Argo by Apollonius of Rhodes The Dynasties of China by Bamber Gascoigne The Venetian Empire: A Sea Voyage by Jan Morris Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne Stuart Little by E. There are twelve new books in the latest catalogue along with reissues of several other volumes.
This week, I was lucky enough to attend their spring titles launch event at the British Library in London. Founded in 1947 by Charles Ede, the Folio Society is an independent publisher with a reputation for producing beautifully illustrated books.
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