Seven Hundred Penguins

A collection of Penguin covers from Britain and around the world, "Seven Hundred Penguins" is a celebration of jackets that remain visually distinctive and addictive to us today, from the beautiful to the garish, design classics to design oddities. A full-colour, sensuous delight, with one jacket on every page, the featured jackets represent the personal favourites of Penguin staff from offices all over the world, and run from Penguin's birth in 1935 to the end of the twentieth century.Throughout there are jackets that bring back a flood of memories of the first time a book was read; there is beautiful typography from Jan Tschicold; arresting illustrations; visual witticisms from Derek Birdsall; countless mutations of the much-loved Penguin grid. There are also, with no formula at all, jackets that just make sense. Featuring old favourites and plenty of surprises, "700 Penguins" is a unique and inspiring collection of the most impactful and well-loved Penguin covers of the twentieth century.

ISBN 0141031883   Pages 720 ISBN13 9780141031880 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 1210 Publisher Penguin Books Ltd   Published in London Imprint Penguin Books Ltd   Height (mm) 199 Format Paperback   Width (mm) 144 Publication date 06 Sep 2007   Spine width (mm) 47 DEWEY 741.64   Academic level General DEWEY edition DC22

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