The Folio Society's "Micrographia" Wins British Book Design Award

The Folio Society is delighted to announce that their Limited Edition of Robert Hooke’s Micrographia won the Scholarly, Academic and Reference Book category at The British Book Design & Production Awards 2017, presented in London last week. 

The British Book Design & Production Awards is one of the most prestigious and popular literary events of the year, the awards recognise and promote excellence in the British book industry by celebrating the best editions of the year. 

The judges said: ‘Micrographia is a delightful book traditionally typeset with stunning illustrations of insects and plants including throw-outs for the larger illustrations. The book is beautifully quarter-bound in leather, with silver foiled sides and a silver gilt top, and presented in a cloth-bound slipcase. It may be a large format book but you will fnd it very hard to put down!’ 

Kate Grimwade, Production Director at The Folio Society said: ‘Folio are delighted to have won the Scholarly, Academic and Reference Books category with Micrographia. The images in the book were painstakingly reproduced and restored to their original glory from copies held at the Bodleian and the Museum of the History of Science in Oxford. With five throw-outs, gilded tops, a leather quarter-binding and a stunning blocked design, Micrographia encompasses the very best of Folio’s design and production values.