Penguin Books–Penguin English Library

If there’s still anyone out there who still reads this blog, my apologies for the hiatus in posts that extend to two and half years.

I’ve had good intentions of reviving Eye Candy For Bibliophiles, but somehow never got around to composing fresh posts.

Good news! I’ve been scanning books over the past week or so, and have finally scanned most of the Penguin books in my library as well as  the remainder of  books in the general fiction and non fiction categories.

So to get back into the swing of things, I’ll start off with my small collection of books in the Penguin English Library category.  They date from the 1960s to 1980s.

Penguin has recently revamped the Penguin English Library with new covers and includes authors omitted in the first series.

In alphabetical order, Jane Austen is first…

1966 Edition – no image credit	1974 edition  –Plate from Heideloff’s Gallery of Fashion1797-78
1966 Edition – no image credit	1965 Edition – no image credit

1980 Edition – Portrait of Lady Colville by Henry Raeburn

..then come the Brontes.

1966 Edition – portrait of Charlotte Bronte	1961 Edition – artist Paul Hogarth

1966 Edition – illustration by JWM Turner

1971 edition – Chinoiserie at Brighton Pavilion	1973 edition – A Country Blacksmith by Turner
1965 edition – no image credit	1968 edition – The Nightmare by Fuseli
1981 edition – Stonehenge by Turner	1965 edition – no image credit

1967 Edition – no image credit

1967 edition – no image credit	1967 edition – no image credit
1972 edition – detail from Currie & Ivers print in the Mausell Collection	1969 edition – no image credit
1970 edition – no image credit	1972 edition – portrait of a woman by Allesandro

Next up I will show my collection from the Penguin Modern Classics series of the 1960s & 70s.