Folio 40

This anniversary checklist records the publications of a London fine-edition publisher from 1947 to 1987, some seven hundred titles. Entries give authors, illustrators, bindings, and print information, with notes on design and on how the list changed as the firm grew from a postwar book club into a regular producer of illustrated hardbacks. The book is a reference catalogue rather than a narrative history or a sampler of texts. It is meant for readers who need to identify an edition and see the shape of forty years of choices.

Bound in dark blue cloth with a design in white and gold by David Eccles. Pale blue endleaves. Transparent plastic dust-jacket. Folio Press.