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Featured Limited Edition
The Folio Society limited edition cloth-bound book with gold embossed spine
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Ed.

Print Run

Edition 312 of 500

Folio Press · 2026

The Collected Works
of Virginia Woolf

Seven volumes. Letterpress covers printed on 280gsm Fedrigoni Arcoprint. Commissioned endpapers by illustrator Saoirse Lennon. Blocked in genuine 22-carat gold.

Sewn & smyth-bound in natural linen cloth
Commissioned endpapers — original artwork
Embossed slipcase with gold foil blocking
Numbered certificate of authenticity
Ribbon bookmark in archival silk

Limited Edition Price

£189

Seven volumes · Free UK delivery

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The standard edition is temporary.
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Perfect-bound paperback
Standard offset printing
Generic cover design
Letterpress typography
Commissioned endpapers
Smyth-sewn binding
Embossed slipcase
Numbered certificate
Archival silk ribbon
Why It's Worth It

Four reasons the premium edition
outlasts everything else on your shelf.

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Close-up of letterpress printing press with inked type blocks
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Letterpress Typography

Each cover is printed using a 1962 Heidelberg Platen press. The impression leaves a tactile deboss you can feel with your fingertip — impossible to replicate by offset.

Fedrigoni Arcoprint 280gsm · 3-colour letterpress
Craftsperson hand-sewing book signatures with linen thread
02

Smyth-Sewn Binding

Pages are gathered into signatures and hand-sewn through the spine with linen thread before casing. The book opens flat on any page without cracking — for life.

Natural linen cloth · Sewn signatures · Opens flat
Ornate illustrated endpapers with geometric botanical patterns in gold and plum
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Commissioned Endpapers

Illustrator Saoirse Lennon created original artwork for each volume's endpapers — geometric patterns that echo the era of each text, printed in two colours on cream cartridge.

Original artwork · 2-colour print · Cartridge paper
Gold-embossed cloth slipcase holding a seven-volume book set
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Embossed Slipcase

The cloth-covered slipcase is blocked in genuine 22-carat gold leaf. It protects the set from light and dust while displaying beautifully on any shelf.

22-carat gold blocking · Archival cloth · Custom fit

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I've been buying books for forty years. The Folio Woolf set is the most beautiful physical object I own. The endpapers alone justify the price.

Margaret Harlow

Collector, Cambridge

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Gave the set to my sister for her birthday. She cried when she opened it. The slipcase is extraordinary — it feels like opening a jewellery box.

James Okafor

Gift buyer, London

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I had the standard Penguin editions. The Folio upgrade cost me less than a restaurant dinner. I look at it every morning and feel richer for owning it.

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Bibliophile, Edinburgh

Gift the Set

Something that unwraps
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Every limited edition ships in archival tissue, tied with our signature plum ribbon, and sealed with a Folio wax stamp. Your personal note is handwritten on heavyweight cream card and tucked inside the slipcase.

Archival tissue wrapping with plum ribbon
Handwritten personal note on cream card
Folio wax stamp seal
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