In her 2016 study “The Making of Shakespeare’s First Folio,” Oxford literary scholar Emma Smith writes that although the book arrived without any fanfare, “it is hard to overstate the ...

The Folio Society has been making exquisite book cover art and illustrations for nearly 80 years now. And with its new Spring collection, they've outdone themselves – having received all of the ...

Even after all this time, IT remains one of the crowning achievements of Stephen King's prolific writing career. The Folio Society is honoring that legacy with a lavish (albeit extremely expensive) ...

Without the First Folio, Half of Shakespeare’s Plays Would Have Been Lost to History The 400-year-old text presented the Bard’s plays as serious literature, muddling the boundaries between ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — Five or six times a year I receive an email announcing the latest additions to The Folio Society’s collection of illustrated books. It’s always a mix of titles I love ...

PBS’s “Great Performances” looks at the vaunted First Folio and how Shakespeare still resonates in today’s world.

Four former staff members at the defunct Folio Books are working to open a new bookstore named Noe Valley Books at the same location as the shuttered neighborhood staple as soon as October.. There has ...

First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare. August 9-31, 2016 . First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare,on tour from the Folger Shakespeare Library, will be open to the public at the CU Art ...

As the book that introduced Shakespeare to the world, it is, like Gutenberg's Bible, one of history's most famous volumes. It made Shakespeare, as Ben Jonson put it, "not for an age, but for all ...

It allows the reader to think about how the dystopian issues Orwell paints in the book are recurring themes in history. There are 750 numbered copies of the book for sale, starting later this ...

So, it likely came as a surprise to the literary elite that seven years after Shakespeare’s death, his friends cobbled together the 900-plus-page “Shakespeare’s First Folio,” aka Mr ...

The Folio Society has been making exquisite book cover art and illustrations for nearly 80 years now. And with its new Spring collection, they've outdone themselves – having received all of the ...