The judging panel also selected a shortlist of five artists who will each receive £500 worth of Folio Society books and an individual portfolio review with the Folio Society Art Directors. They are: Harry Campbell (US), Sarah Coomer (UK), Thanh-Vu Nguyen (Vietnam), Yiran Jia (US), a...
This year, The Folio Society has been celebrating 75 years since Charles Ede founded it in 1947. Ede believed that commercial books could – and should – be produced to the highest standards. Today, inside the publishing house’s offices in an elegant 1930s warehouse in Bermondsey, floor-to...
An Account of a Comparison Lately Made by Some Gentlemen of the Royal Society, of the Standard of a Yard, and the Several Weights Lately Made for Their Use; With the Original Standards of Measures and Weights in the Exchequer, and Some Others Kept for Public Use, at Guild-Hall, Founders...
Here the angel of death and his troupe of unlikely heralds in the costumes of low cafe society come to stalk, court and seduce her. What twists the knife, is the unnerving casting of Vivien Leigh in the title role. The whilom Lady Olivier is compelled to play out her own tragic story ...