Penguin ILLUSTRATED CLASSICS Series




Illustrated Classics 1 - 10

A series designed so as to display wood-engraving. Only ten were issued, all in May 1938. C1 was Jane Austin's 'Pride and Prejudice' with wood-engravings by Helen Binyon. Robert Gibbings was the Series Editor (and illustrated book no. C8).



Information and cover photographs of the Penguin ILLUSTRATED CLASSICS series:

Number: C1	Series No.: C1 Title: PRIDE AND PREJUDICE Author: Jane Austen Wood-engravings by: Helen Binyon Date Published: 20 May 1938 Pages: 320pp. Printer: Purnell and Sons Ltd Price: 6d.
Number: C2	Series No.: C2 Title: A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY Author: Laurence Sterne Wood-engravings by: Gwen Raverat Date Published: 20 May 1938 Pages: Printer: Purnell and Sons Ltd Price: 6d.
Number: C3	Series No.: C3 Title: TALES OF MYSTERY AND IMAGINATION Author: Edgar Allan Poe Wood-engravings by: Douglas P. Bliss Date Published: 20 May 1938 Pages: 256pp. Printer: Purnell and Sons Ltd Price: 6d.
Number: C4	Series No.: C4 Title: WALDEN Author: Henry David Thoreau Wood-engravings by: Ethelbert White Date Published: 20 May 1938 Pages: 288pp. Printer: Purnell and Sons Ltd Price: 6d.
Number: C5	Series No.: C5 Title: SELECTED POEMS Author: Robert Browning Wood-engravings by: Ian MacNab Date Published: 20 May 1938 Pages: 256pp. Printer: Purnell and Sons Ltd Price: 6d.
Number: C6	Series No.: C6 Title: ROBINSON CRUSOE (I) Author: Daniel Defoe Wood-engravings by: J. R. Biggs Date Published: 20 May 1938 Pages: 224pp. Printer: Purnell and Sons Ltd Price: 6d.
Number: C7	Series No.: C7 Title: ROBINSON CRUSOE (II) Author: Daniel Defoe Wood-engravings by: J. R. Biggs Date Published: 20 May 1938 Pages: 224pp. Printer: Purnell and Sons Ltd Price: 6d.
Number: C8	Series No.: C8 Title: TYPEE Author: Herman Melville Wood-engravings by: Robert Gibbings Date Published: 20 May 1938 Pages: 288pp. Printer: Purnell and Sons Ltd Price: 6d.
Number: C9	Series No.: C9 Title: THE STORY OF MY HEART Author: Richard Jefferies Wood-engravings by: Gertrude Hermes Date Published: 20 May 1938 Pages: 192pp. Printer: Purnell and Sons Ltd Price: 6d.
Number: C10	Series No.: C10 Title: GULLIVER'S TRAVELS Author: Jonathan Swift Wood-engravings by: Theodore Naish Date Published: 20 May 1938 Pages: 288pp. Printer: Purnell and Sons Ltd Price: 6d.

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