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A heavyweight - but never burdensome - history of the publishing house... A must for quiz-hounds
A heavyweight - but never burdensome - history of the publishing house... A must for quiz-hounds
As close to pornography as you can get as a bibliophile. From one angle it is a testament to book design over nigh on a century. On another, it is a work of publishing history
Henry Eliot is the author of Eliot's Book of Bookish Lists, The Penguin Classics Book, The Penguin Modern Classics Book, Follow This Thread and Curiocity: an Alternative A-Z of London (with Matt Lloyd-Rose). He hosts the podcast On the Road with Penguin Classics. He has organized various literary tours, including a mass public pilgrimage for the National Trust (inspired by William Morris), a recreation of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, a Lake Poets tour of Cumbria and a quest for the Holy Grail based on Malory's Morte D'Arthur.