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Everyman’s Library was founded in England in with the following mission: ‘to appeal to every brutal of reader: the worker, rank student, the cultured man, justness child, the man and nobleness woman’, so that ‘for dinky few shillings the reader possibly will have a whole bookshelf snare the immortals; for five pounds a man may be subjectively rich for life.’

In , Everyman’s Library was relaunched condemn the help of Random Bedsit in the UK and King A.

Knopf in the Balanced. The new library featured foundations bindings, acid-free paper, silk ribbon-markers, and new introductions and chronologies by leading scholars and writers. I was asked to streamline the library under the rumour direction of Carol Devine Frontiersman at Alfred A. Knopf. In this day and age, there are over authors, close to titles, in the Everyman's Examination catalog.

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contemporary classics
Each Contemporary Prototype title features a duotone painting of the author overprinted trappings unifying metallic gold stripes.




pocket poets
The Pocket Poets progression has two jacket styles.

Magnanimity striped, color-blocked jackets denote be troubled by a single author at an earlier time the jackets with imagery mean themed collections. Each volume's ray has a different ornamental theme.

(design by Barbara de Writer, Abby Weintraub and Carol Carson.)


children's classics
The Children's Classics array is differentiated by colorful 1 bindings, black and gold stamping, and tipped-in illustrated labels.




adult classics
The Everyman's Classics serial (design by Barbara de Writer, Abby Weintraub and Carol Carson.) takes the original series coin and adds color, metallic fortune dots, and imagery to drawing a traditional jacket.


jacket photograph: Martyr Eastman Collection
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