Folio Archives 201: A Booklover's Companion by Matthew Reisz 2006

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Folio Archives 201: A Booklover's Companion by Matthew Reisz 2006

1wcarter
tammikuu 14, 2021, 10:53 pm

A Booklover's Companion by Matthew Reisz 2006

This delightful little book was a promotional give-away used to encourage members of the Folio Society to purchase more books.

It contains well over a hundred extracts from famous (and not so famous) authors and poets describing their love of books and reading. They vary in length from a few sentences to about three pages and are arranged under twelve chapters, each chapter commencing with an appropriate painting. There is also a frontispiece painting.

It is a delightful book to peruse when filling in a few idle moments, with the extracts varying from the profound and educational to witty and even mildly lewd. An ideal book for every Folio Society Devotee.

It was issued without a slipcase or dust-jacket, and is bound in paper with a colour picture on the front cover. It has gilt enhanced maroon endpapers. The book is 19.9x14.2cm. and has 160 pages. There is no introduction.



























































Promotional leaflet




An index of the other illustrated reviews in the "Folio Archives" series can be viewed here.

2AMindForeverVoyaging
tammikuu 15, 2021, 12:26 am

An ancestor of Year Round Things to Do :) Thanks as always for these posts!

3cronshaw
tammikuu 15, 2021, 2:35 am

>1 wcarter: thanks as ever Warwick. Wonderful artwork in this one. The image of the bibliomaniac on a stepladder, which must resemble a few Folio addicts, I remember seeing on the cover of the Oxford World Classics edition of Scott's The Antiquary. I'd love to know who the artist is.

4wcarter
Muokkaaja: tammikuu 15, 2021, 2:52 am

>3 cronshaw:
There is a picture of the illustrations and credits in the review above where you can see listed who every picture was painted by and where the painting now resides.
The one that interests you is called "The Bookworm" and was painted by Carl Spitzweg c. 1850 and is now in the Museum Deorg Schäfer, in Schweinfurt, Bavaria.

5ubiquitousuk
tammikuu 15, 2021, 2:50 am

>1 wcarter: another great entry in the Folio Archives. I can't say the subject matter of this one appeals very much, but those illustrations and the typographical design both look quite tasty so I might keep an eye out for an affordable version of this.

6cronshaw
tammikuu 15, 2021, 2:50 am

>4 wcarter: many thanks, I missed that page!

7wcarter
tammikuu 15, 2021, 2:53 am

My personal favourite here is the young woman holding the book to her lips, and looking as though she has just read something unexpectedly salacious. Delightful!

8boldface
tammikuu 16, 2021, 1:22 pm

A delightful book by the look of it, but it would seem I didn't spend enough that year to get one.

9folio_books
tammikuu 16, 2021, 1:38 pm

>8 boldface:

Don't despair, Jonathan. There are plenty copies to go around on the secondary market for under a tenner.

10boldface
tammikuu 16, 2021, 2:02 pm

>9 folio_books:

Thanks, I'll look for one.

11Powderfinger69
tammikuu 16, 2021, 2:17 pm

Thank you for another fine entry. Love the illustrations.

>4 wcarter: I enjoy learning something every day. I've always known it as an etching by Joseph F. Sabin. Notable Etchings by American Artists (1886) has been on the family bookshelf longer than I can remember.

12Jeremy53
tammikuu 18, 2021, 9:27 pm

I think I may have donated my copy to the local charity shop. Can't be certain as we're moving and beloved books are boxed.

I remember thinking: why would I spend time reading about reading when I could be reading? These are the crazy thoughts I have sometimes.

13jhicks62
tammikuu 19, 2021, 1:50 pm

>12 Jeremy53: To each his or her own. I love books about books and reading, and now I'm going to have to hunt this one down!