Penguin’s Vintage Classics imprint has launched a Quarterbound Classics series. These gift editions feature a brightly coloured quarter cloth binding, contemporary illustrations, red silk ribbon bookmark and other finishes throughout the text.
A guide to Penguin’s little clothbound classics series.
A collector’s guide to the books in Penguin’s clothbound poetry classics series.
A review of the mostly philosophical non-fiction titles included in the Pocket Pocket Hardback Classics collection (selected because they have “changed the history of thought”).
A collector’s guide to all the paperback books in the beautiful Penguin Deluxe Classics series, with arresting cover designs and French flaps.
An illustrated collector’s guide to the limited collection of ‘Penguin Ink’ contemporary paperback novels with cover designs by leading tattoo artists.
Updated 2023. Illustrated list of the Penguin Vitae series, an authoritative classics collection featuring diverse authors, foiled hardback covers and pretty endpapers.
An introduction to Penguin’s deluxe limited editions, only 100 copies of each released, including The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern and Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee.
Collecting » Classics » Penguin Leatherbound Penguin Leatherbound Classics: Collector’s Guide and FAQ About the books This series was opened in 2017 with a ‘special set of 10 hardcover classics’ designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith, ‘that innovatively uses foil and a special new binding material to create a highly collectible set’. Read more…
A guide to collecting the Penguin clothbound classics series, first released in 2008 and featuring delightful covers designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith.