"Today, The Folio Society, Britain's leading publisher of fine books, launches foliobooks (www.foliobooks.net). For the first time, you can buy beautiful, illustrated, hardback books which, until now, have only been available to members.

The site launches with a wide range of titles, embracing humour, poetry, travel, art, music, myths and fairy tales, biography and autobiography, children's books and fiction. It will generate a passion, not only for good books, but for the best in illustration and production. 'Books do furnish a room,' declared Revd Sydney Smith, and they should. Foliobooks aims to make Britons proud of what their book collections look like, as well as what is inside them."

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