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Official website. foliosociety .com. The Folio Society is a London-based publisher, founded by Charles Ede in 1947 and incorporated in 1971. [1] [2] Formerly privately owned, [3] it operates as an employee ownership trust since 2021. It produces illustrated hardback editions of classic fiction and non-fiction books, poetry and children's titles.
The second folio, titled Fifty Comedies and Tragedies, was published by the booksellers Henry Herringman, [4] John Martyn, and Richard Marriot; the printing was done by J. Macock. The three stationers had obtained the rights to previously-published works, [5] and added 18 dramas to the 35 of the first folio, for a total of 53. The second folio ...
First Folio. Title page of the first impression (1623). Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies is a collection of plays by William Shakespeare, commonly referred to by modern scholars as the First Folio, [a] published in 1623, about seven years after Shakespeare's death. It is considered one of the most influential books ...
The size of a book is generally measured by the height against the width of a leaf, or sometimes the height and width of its cover. [2] A series of terms is commonly used by libraries and publishers for the general sizes of modern books, ranging from folio (the largest), to quarto (smaller) and octavo (still smaller).
0-7869-2780-1. The third Fiend Folio ( ISBN 0-7869-2780-1) was designed by Eric Cagle, Jesse Decker, James Jacobs, Erik Mona, Matt Sernett, Chris Thomasson, and James Wyatt, and was published in April 2003 for use with the 3rd edition Dungeons & Dragons rules. Cover art was by Brom and Henry Higginbotham, with interior art by Glen Angus, Darren ...
Ben Jonson (c. 11 June 1572 – c. 16 August 1637) collected his plays and other writings into a book he titled The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. In 1616 it was printed in London in the form of a folio. [1] Second and third editions of his works were published posthumously in 1640 and 1692. These editions of Ben Jonson's works were a crucial ...
The title-page of the Shakespeare First Folio, 1623 Single folio from a large Qur'an, North Africa, 8th c. (Khalili Collection). The term "folio" (from Latin folium 'leaf' [1]) has three interconnected but distinct meanings in the world of books and printing: first, it is a term for a common method of arranging sheets of paper into book form, folding the sheet only once, and a term for a book ...
A lot of Folio’s stock comes directly from publishers, which means that a book will cost, on average, about $18 to $20. “We’re not falling into the Amazon trap of like, let’s try to bring ...