André Maurois - Ariel
Penguin Books 1
Published July 1935; 4th impression June 1936
Cover Design: Edward Young

The first printing is missing the accent on "André".

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André Maurois - Ariel (dust jacket)
Penguin Books 1
Published July 1935; 4th impression June 1936
Cover Design: Edward Young

The Horizontal Grid, 1935
The horizontal grid was devised by Edward Young, Penguin's first Production Manager. Different colours were used to indicate subject matter—orange for fiction, green for crime, dark blue for biography, cerise for travel and adventure, red for plays. The design features popular typefaces of the time—Bodoni Ultra Bold for the publisher's name, and two weights of the relatively new (1927-8) Gill Sans were used for the remainder of the front cover and spine information. The horizontal grid was perfected by Jan Tschichold in 1948 with the most obvious change being the substitution of Gill Sans for Bodoni Ultra Bold in the publishers name.

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Apsley Cherry-Garrard - The Worst Journey in the World
Penguin Books 100
Published 1937 (in two volumes); reprinted in 1948 in one volume; 1st printing
Cover Design: Edward Young

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Nicolas Bentley - The Tongue-Tied Canary
Penguin Books 1005, 1954
Cover Design: Edward Young

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Benjamin Disraeli - Sybil or: The Two Nations
Penguin Books 1012, 1954
Cover Design: Edward Young

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