Penguin’s Foiled Fitzgeralds and Friends

This pretty collection of F Scott Fitzgerald’s works was the first of Penguin’s foiled cover designs, designed by the brilliant Coralie Bickford-Smith and released in 2011. Coralie designed these delightful Art Deco cover patterns to evoke the elegance and glamour of the jazz age that is depicted in his stories, with the intent of showing a “sense of ornate detail fused with the modernist aesthetic of mechanical repetition”.

Five years later, the foiled design style was reinterpreted for a series of espionage titles by John Le Carré. The combination of metallic foil and matt paper feels good in the hand and looks stunning on the shelf. Each book includes a matching bookmark with quote that can be detached from the dust jacket.