New from Folio: The Letterpress Hamlet
Letterpress printing is instantly distinguish- able from commercial litho printing: you can see and feel the indentation where each letter has been impressed into the page. Attention has been lavished on every aspect of this edition. The text was designed by eye and set by hand; the paper is made of cotton mixed with pure wood fibers, dried on a cylindrical mould; the signatures were sewn and bound by experienced craftsmen. The result is a fit and harmonious balance between the internal and external - a volume which is not only a delight to look at and hold, but a joy to read.
Includes separate commentary volume- Limited to 2,500 hand-numbered copies
- Both volumes housed in solander box
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For those who love books, possessing an edition worthy of its contents is an incalculable pleasure. This collection features beautiful Folio Society productions of literary classics new and old, from Homer's Odyssey to Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude.
This collection features several facsimile editions of masterpieces of book illustration from the Edwardian era. Arthur Rackham's finest work appears here in Grimm's Fairy Tales, while the paintings of Charles Robinson bring alive the pages of The Secret Garden.
From Jakob Burckhardt's canonical investigation of the Italian Renaissance to Winston Churchill's insider's account of the Second World War, these classics of modern history have made history themselves. All are available in fine, illustrated editions from The Folio Society.
Cloak and daggers, whodunits, and shaggy dog stories comprise this collection of short stories and humor. You'll find Agatha Christie's Miss Marple Short Stories, Graham & Hugh Greene's The Spy's Bedside Book, Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary, as well as Folio originals like The Best After-Dinner Stories.
"If I have seen further," wrote Isaac Newton in 1676, "it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants." This collection gathers beautiful Folio Society editions of books by those who stood on Newton's shoulders - Relativity by Albert Einstein, The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, and many others.
According to legend, William Butler Yeats used his Nobel Prize money to buy a better edition of Edward Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Now you too can afford an edition worthy of Gibbon's elegant prose. Browse the entire Ancient & Medieval History collection.
