More book covers, this time of the vintage variety.
Its pretty much acejet170’s fault that I developed a sudden penchant for old Penguins. I love looking at how different designers introduced new rules to create families of books over the decades. Many of them feel so contemporary… a good 50 years after they were published.



Left: Birds of the Sea by R.M. Lockley, published 1945, Cover Designed by Enid Marx, who it turns out was a textile designer, illustrator and expert in wood block printing.

Right: Flowers of the Woods by E.J. Salisbury published 1946, Cover Designed by Rosmary and Clifford Ellis, who did these lovely posters for London Underground in the 1930’s.



Left: Poisonous Fingi by John Ramsbottom, Published 1945, Cover designed by Joy Jarvis. I would love to find out more about this designer, but so far have come up empty handed..

Right: Penguin Modern Stories 3, Published 1969, Cover designed by David Pelham. read more about Pelham’s history with Penguin on the CR blog

More to follow one day…