William Morris’s ‘Odes of Horace’ is an exquisite limited print run of precious illuminated book. Morris describes them as “painted books” and he told FT’s How To Spend It that he was inspired by illumination while a student at Oxford, where he frequently visited the Bodleian Library. UK’s the Folio Society has duplicated the first facsimile manuscripts of ‘The Odes of Horace’ sold at £395, in a limited edition of 980 that can be bought online.  This edition is full of floral patterns, portraits in miniature with foliated borders and vine tapestry. The books are printed on Tatami paper in coloured inks with gold and silver foil by foil-printing specialist Castelli Bolis in Bergamo, Italy.