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thefugitivesaint · 4 months

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Linda Farquharson, 'Demon Cat', ''Irish Fairy and Folk Tales'' compiled by W. B. Yeats, Folio Society 2007

#Linda Farquharson #scottish artists #linocuts #demon cat #Irish Fairy and Folk Tales #folio society #cats #fairy tales #w. b. yeats

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pristina-nomine · 1 year

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Masfield Park illustrations by Darya Shnykina (x)

#mansfield park #jane austen #darya shnykina #illustrazione #letteratura #folio society

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checanty · 6 months

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HELLO EVERYBODY! Guess who got to illustrate Kazuo Ishiguro's The Buried Giant for the @foliosociety??? The book turned out so beautiful, I can die happy now.

You can order a copy here.

#Still trying to figure out how to take *aesthetic* pictures #this is such a dream come true!#Also I'm so behind on promoting so much stuff #Folio Society #The Buried Giant #Book Illustration #beautiful books #books #Kazuo Ishiguro

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vizual-demon · 1 year

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Jurassic Park art by Vector That Fox

for Folio Society’s illustrated edition of Michael Crichton’s novel

#jurassic park #dinosaurs #sci-fi #books #folio society #michael crichton #vector that fox #illustration #art #my edit

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magicoleanders · 27 days

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this is me btw. if you even care

#shirley jackson #we have always lived in the castle #merricat blackwood #folio society #kind of want to make this my pfp on everything but la llamada has been with me forever and I want to keep it

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uwmspeccoll · 8 months

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Wood Engraving Wednesday

JOHN LAWRENCE

Once again we turn to the fanciful engravings of English illustrator and wood engraver John Lawrence (b. 1933), this time from a small (4.25" x 3") 1992 Folio Society edition of Robert Browning's version of The Pied Piper of Hamelin, printed at The Bath Press in Bath, England on Fabriano Ingres laid paper. The engravings themselves are only 3" x 2", but they are vivid and richly detailed.

John Lawrence, whose career spans nearly 70 years, is one of England's most-respected living wood engravers. He has illustrated well over 200 books and has taught his craft at the Brighton School of Art, Camberwell School of Art, and Cambridge School of Art from the 1960s to 2010. He has influenced generations of noted contemporary wood engravers, and was himself a student of Gertrude Hermes (view some wood engravings by Hermes we have posted).

Our copy of the Folio Society's Pied Piper is yet another donation from the estate of our late friend and colleague Dennis Bayuzick. The book was originally bound in full moire silk by Hunter and Foulis, but our copy was specially rebound in 2001 by English bookbinder Stephen Conway (see below).

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View other illustrations for the Pied Piper by Kate Greenaway and Sarah Chamberlain.

View other books from the collection of Dennis Bayuzick.

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#Wood Engraving Wednesday #wood engravings #wood engravers #John Lawrence #Robert Browning #The Pied Piper of Hamelin #Pied Piper of Hamelin #The Folio Society #Folio Society #The Bath Press #Fabriano paper #bookbinding #Stephen Conway #Dennis Bayuzick

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nicklloydnow · 6 months

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“The man that shot you died in prison.

In Angola. Yes.

What would you of done if he'd been released?

I dont know. Nothin. There wouldnt be no point to it. There aint no point to it. Not to any of it.

I'm kindly surprised to hear you say that.

You wear out, Ed Tom. All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took from you there's more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it. Your grandad never asked me to sign on as deputy with him. I done that my own self. Hell, I didnt have nothin else to do. Paid about the same as cowboyin. Anyway, you never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from. I was too young for one war and too old for the next one. But I seen what come out of it. You can be patriotic and still believe that some things cost more than what they're worth. Ask them Gold Star mothers what they paid and what they got for it. You always pay too much. Particularly for promises. There aint no such thing as a bargain promise. You'll see. Maybe you done have.

Bell didnt answer.

I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didnt. I dont blame him. If I was him I'd have the same opinion about me that he does.

You dont know what he thinks.

Yes I do.”

#cormac mccarthy #no country for old men #ed tom #anton chigurh #folio #folio society #books #gérard dubois

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ancestorsalive · 10 months

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