The Folio Book of Days
Inbunden bok. The Folio Society. First edition uppl. 2002. 336 sidor.
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The Folio Book of Days
Selected and introduced by Roger Hudson
Observera att denna bok är på engelska. Please note that this book is in English.
The book is a hardcover with slipcase. It is new, unread and in perfect condition.
First edition.
Published by The Folio Society in 2002.
Black Buckram with gilt design to front cover.
Many colour and black & white illustrations. Gilt titles to spine and decorations to upper cover on black boards.
Drawing on diaries, letters, journals, eyewitness accounts, newspaper reports, speeches and sermons - indeed, on any source that is dated - this specially commissioned volume features around 500 entries by 95 writers, selected and edited by Roger Hudson and 160 paintings, photographs and engravings - 100 in full colour. In “The Folio Book of Days” you can eavesdrop on the everyday conversations or idle thoughts of the great and the good; view earth-shattering events from a new perspective; or re-live memorable days from the lives of the great diarists. From an eyewitness account of the murder of Thomas à Becket at Canterbury Cathedral on 29 December 1170, to the terror attacks on New York on 11 September 2001, the voices of past and present echo loud and clear.
Featured contributors include: William Allingham, Buzz Aldrin, Jane Austen, Louis Bleriot, Anne Boleyn, Jane Welsh Carlyle, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christopher Columbus, Francis Drake, Queen Elizabeth I, Edward Fitzgerald, Sir John Froissart, Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Gray, Max Hastings, Ernest Hemingway, John Keats, Martin Luther King, Jr, Jack London, Vincent Lunardi, Guglielmo Marconi, Samuel Pepys, Ernest Shackleton, John Simpson, Sydney Smith, Queen Victoria, Walt Whitman, Virginia Woolf and Dorothy Wordsworth
Beautifully crafted, imaginative editions of the world’s great works of fiction and non-fiction, Folio Society books offer a rich literary experience to readers of all ages. The books selected for publication are timeless – they will be enjoyed and appreciated now and in the future. Because each book is considered as an individual object of value in its own right, there is a variety to our aesthetic – the only uniformity is in the quality of every single book.
Format: 27x20x3,5 cm, 336 pages.