With the demise of the book seemingly imminent, it’s fun to look back on the Golden Age of publishing. I’ve purchased a thousand Penguin Press books or more over the years. From the bland covers in green or orange, to the Penguin Classics with their wonderful covers with lovely classical artwork, to their more avant-garde cover designs, Paul Buckley presents 75 years of book cover artwork in this handy volume. There are hours of browsing fun here. If you love books, you’ll love Penguin 75. GRADE: A
Wasn’t there a Penguin 50 too?
If there was a PENGUIN 50, I’ve never seen it, Jeff. It might have only been available in England. PENGUIN 75, though, is available everywhere. It’s a fun romp through publishing history!
It was definitely in England, you’re right about that. But it might have been Penguin 35 or 40.
The only thing I could find on my database was The World of Penguin: The Complete Catalogue.
PENGUIN 75 focuses on the artwork and book design, Jeff. Very informative!
Penguin celebrated its 60th with a series of inexpensive pocket (vest-pocket) microbooks, as well, as we might remember. (I was bookseller at the time. Or a manager of booksellers, anyway.)
I have many of those Penguin microbooks, Todd, but I don’t own them all.