PEREGRINE BOOKS




THIS PAGE 'Y' Y1- Y50

These were produced as 'academic books' and published by Penguin.They were intended to be used to study subjects, and printed on better quality paper, with stiffer covers and sewn rather than glued in binding. They had a larger format, with a size of 7¾" x 5⅓", and were much more expensive than standard Penguins, such as Pelicans, from which some of the earlier titles were taken.

The series began in January 1962 with the publication of 'Y1', The Common Pursuit by F. R. Leavis.

The early emphasis was on history and English literature. The earlier books carried the motif of a perched falcon, looking towards its right, with a white spine and the 'Y' series number at the bottom. After about 10 years there was a brief lull in titles, with a fresh looking cover design and more of a focus on sociological material, often with a left-wing bias.


Information and cover photographs of Peregrine Books Series:

Y1	Series No.: Y1 Title: THE COMMON PURSUIT Author: F. R. Leavis Date Published: January 1962 Pages: 316pp. Printer: T. and A. Constable Ltd Price: 7/6d.
Y2	Series No.: Y2 Title: SEVEN TYPES OF AMBIGUITY Author: William Empson Date Published: January 1962 [printed date: 1961] Pages: 256pp. Printer: T. and A. Constable Ltd Price: 7/6d.
Y3	Series No.: Y3 Title: THE SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY BACKGROUND Author: Basil Willey Cover: design by Graham Bishop Date Published: January 1962 Pages: 288pp. Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd Price: 8/6d.
Y4	Series No.: Y4 Title: SHAKESPEARE'S HISTORY PLAYS Author: E. M. W. Tillyard Date Published: January 1962 Pages: 336pp. Printer: T. and A. Constable Ltd Price: 8/6d. Re-issued later as SL14
Y5	Series No.: Y5 Title: THE BACKGROUND OF ENGLISH LITERATURE AND OTHER ESSAYS Author: Herbert Grierson Date Published: January 1962 Pages: 256pp. Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd Price: 8/6d.
Y6	Series No.: Y6 Title: THE QUEST FOR PROUST Author: André Maurois Translated: by Gerard Hopkins Date Published: January 1962 Pages: 252pp. Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd Price: 10/6d.
Y7	Series No.: Y7 Title: THE REBEL Author: Albert Camus Translated: by Anthony Bower Foreword: by Sir Herbert Read Date Published: January 1962 Pages: 272pp. Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd Price: 7/6d.
Y8	Series No.: Y8 Title: THE NOVEL IN FRANCE (Mme de la Fayette, Laclos, Constant, Stendhal, Balza, Flaubert, Proust) Author: Martin Turnell Date Published: January 1962 Pages: 448pp. Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd Price: 10/6d.
Y9	Series No.: Y9 Title: PAGAN MYSTERIES IN THE RENAISSANCE Author: Edgar Wind Date Published: May 1967 Pages: 346pp. Printer: Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd Price: 25/-
Y10	Series No.: Y10 Title: NAPOLEON: FOR AND AGAINST Author: Pieter Geyl Translated: from the Dutch by Olive Renier Date Published: January 1965 Pages: 432pp. Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd Price: 12/6d.
Y11	Series No.: Y11 Title: AUBREY'S BRIEF LIVES Edited: from the original manuscripts and with an introduction by Oliver Lawson Dick Date Published: May 1962 Pages: 388pp. Printer: Western Printing Services Ltd Price: 12/6d.
Y12	Series No.: Y12 Title: MILTON Author: E. M. W. Tillyard Preface: by Phyllis B. Tillyard Cover: shows detail from a protrait of the young Milton by an unknown artist, National Gallery, (photograph: John Freeman) Date Published: February 1968 Pages: 344 Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd Price: 15/-
Y13	Series No.: Y13 Title: JAMES JOYCE'S ULYSSES (A Study) Author: Stuart Gilbert Cover: design by Derek Birdsall Date Published: February 1963 Pages: 368pp. Printer: Western Printing Services Price: 15/-
Y14	Series No.: Y14 Title: OLD CALABRIA Author: Norman Douglas Introduction: by John Davenport Cover: photograph by Bruno Stefan Date Published: May 1962 Pages: 378pp. Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Price: 12/6d.
Y15	Series No.: Y15 Title: DRAMA AND SOCIETY IN THE AGE OF JONSON Author: L. C. Knights Cover: design by Edwin Taylor Date Published: May 1962 Pages: 288pp. Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Price: 8/6d.
Y16	Series No.: Y16 Title: THE LITERATURE OF THE SPANISH PEOPLE From Roman Times to the Present Day Author: Gerald Brenan Cover: design based on Gustave Doré's engraving for Don Quixote Date Published: February 1963 Pages: 448pp. Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd Price: 12/6d.
Y17	Series No.: Y17 Title: VANISHED SUPREMACIES Essays on European History 1812 - 1918 Author: Lewis Namier Cover: design by Graham Bishop Date Published: September 1962 Pages: 224pp. Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd Price: 8/6d.
Y18	Series No.: Y18 Title: A CRITICAL HISTORY OF ENGLISH POETRY Authors: Herbert Grierson and J. C. Smith Cover: design by Graham Bishop Date Published: 1962 Pages: 512pp. Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd Price: 12/6d.
Y19	Series No.: Y19 Title: JANE AUSTEN'S NOVELS - A Study in Structure Author: Andrew H. Wright Cover: design by Bruce Robertson Date Published: September 1962 Pages: 208pp. Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd Price: 7/6d.
Y20	Series No.: Y20 Title: THE GREAT TRADITIONS Author: F. R. Leavis Cover: design by Richard Hollis Date Published: September 1962 Pages: 304pp. Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd Price: 9/6d.
Y21	Series No.: Y21 Title: THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BACKGROUND - Studies on the Idea of Nature in the Thought of the Period Author: Basil Willey Cover: engraving by R. Bentley from 1753 edition of 'Gray's Elegy' Date Published: September 1962 Pages: 288pp. Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd Price: 9/6d.
Y22	Series No.: Y22 Title: SELECTED PROSE Author: T. S. Eliot Edited: by John Hayward Cover: design by Graham Bishop Date Published: February 1962 Pages: 240pp. Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd Price: 7/6d.
Y23	Series No.: Y23 Title: DAILY LIFE IN ANCIENT ROME - The People and the City at the Height of the Empire Author: Jérôme Carcopino Edited: with bibliography and notes by Henry T. Rowell Translated: from the French by E. O. Lorimer Date Published: October 1962 Pages: 368pp. Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd Price: 12/6d. Image of 1964 reprint
Y24	Series No.: Y24 Title: MAN, MORALS AND SOCIETY - A psycho-analytical study Author: J. C. FLUGEL Cover: design by Herbert Spencer Date Published: October 1962 Pages: 416pp. Printer: The Whitefriars Press Ltd Price: 9/6d.
Y25	Series No.: Y25 Title: THE RISE OF THE NOVEL - Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding Author: Ian Watt Cover: design by Bruce Robertson Date Published: April 1963 Pages: 336pp. Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd Price: 10/6d.
Y26	Series No.: Y26 Title: NEW BEARINGS IN ENGLISH POETRY - A Study of the Contemporary Situation Author: F. R. Leavis Cover: shows composition with coloured planes and grey lines by Mondrian Date Published: April 1963 Pages: 192pp. Printer: C. Tinling and Co Ltd Price: 7/6d.
Y27	Series No.: Y27 Title: THE ELIZABETHAN WORLD PICTURE Author: E. M. Tillyard Cover: shows detail of 'Planisphaerium' by Tycho Brahe Date Published: April 1963 Pages: 144pp. Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd Price: 6/-
Y28	Series No.: Y28 Title: THEORY OF LITERATURE Author: René Wellek and Austin Warren Cover: design by John Sewell Date Published: September 1963 Pages: 384pp. Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd Price: 12/6d.
Y29	Series No.: Y29 Title: THE CONCEPT OF MIND Author: Gilbert Ryle Cover: design by Romek Marber Date Published: January 1964 [printed date: 1963] Pages: 320pp. Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd Price: 10/6d.
Y30	Series No.: Y30 Title: THE GROWTH IN STRUCTURE OF ELIZABETHAN COMEDY Author: M. C. Bradbrook Cover: shows scene from festival at Stratford on Avon arranged by Garrick in Shakespeare's honour in 1750 Date Published: February 1963 Pages: 256pp. Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd Price: 9/6d.
Y31	Series No.: Y31 Title: THE ORIGINS OF LOVE AND HATE Author: Ian D. Suttie Preface: by Dr J. A. Hadfield Cover: design by Bruce Robertson based on detail from Dürer's woodcut 'The Horsemen of the Apocalypse 1498' Date Published: 1963 Pages: 256pp. Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd Price: 8/6d.
Y32	Series No.: Y32 Title: MUSIC CRITICISMS 1846-99 Author: Eduard Hanslick Translated: and edited by Henry Pleasants Cover: shows caricature of Hanslick and Brahms, from Figaro, 1890, woodcut after drawing by Theodor Zasche Date Published: 1963 Pages: 320pp. Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd Price: 12/6d.
Y33	Series No.: Y33 Title: THE MERCHANT OF PRATO, Francesco di Marco Datini Author: Iris Origo Cover: shows Francesco di Marco Datini as donor and four buonomini of Prato, detail from Fillippo Lippi's 'Madonna del Ceppo' Date Published: 1963 Pages: 400pp. Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd Price: 12/6d.
Y34	Series No.: Y34 Title: THOMAS MORE Author: R. W. Chambers Cover: drawing of Sir Thomas More by Hans Holbein the Younger Date Published: 1963 Pages: 416pp. Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd Price: 12/6d.
Y35	Series No.: Y35 Title: THE ENGLISHNESS OF ENGLISH ART - an expanded and annotated version of the Reith Lectures broadcast in October and November 1955 Author: Nikolaus Pevsner Cover: design by Herbert Spencer Date Published: 1964 Pages: 232pp. Printer: Jarrold and Sons Ltd Price: 10/6d.
Y36	Series No.: Y36 Title: EVENINGS IN THE ORCHESTRA Author: Hector Berlioz Cover: portrait of Hector Berlioz from 'Sa vie et ses oeuvres', photographed by Pierre Petit Date Published: 1963 Pages: 352pp. Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd Price: 10/6d.
Y37	Series No.: Y37 Title: THE ELIZABETHAN HOUSE OF COMMONS Author: J. E. Neale Illustration: 4 black-and-white photographic plates Cover: designed by Bruce Robertson incorporating detail from an Elizabethan print 'Presentation of the Speaker, 1586' and a coin of Elizabeth I Date Published: 1963 Pages: 448pp. Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd Price: 15/-
Y38	Series No.: Y38 Title: RUSKIN TODAY Edited: chosen and annotated by Kenneth Clark : G Cover: designed by Germano Facetti Date Published: 1967 Pages: 364pp. Printer: Butler and Tanner Ltd Price: 12/6d.
Y39	Series No.: Y39 Title: D. H. LAWRENCE: NOVELIST Author: F. R. Leavis Cover: designed by Leif Frimann Anisdahl Date Published: 1964 Pages: 336pp. Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd Price: 12/6d.
Y40	Series No.: Y40 Title: EXPLORATIONS - Essays in Criticism Mainly on the Literature of the Seventeenth Century Author: L. C. Knights Cover: design by Graham Bishop Date Published: 1964 Pages: 208pp. Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd Price: 8/6d.
Y41	Series No.: Y41 Title: THE HABSBURG MONARCHY 1809 - 1910 - A History of the Austrian Empire and Austria-Hungary Author: A. J. P. Taylor Cover: design by Germano Facetti Date Published: 1964 Pages: 304pp. Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd Price: 10/6d Image of 1967 reprint
Y42	Series No.: Y42 Title: NINETEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES: Coleridge to Matthew Arnold Author: Basil Willey Cover: design by Tom Eckersley Date Published: 1964 Pages: 304pp. Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd Price: 12/6d.
Y43	Series No.: Y43 Title: SHAKESPEARE'S PLUTARCH - The Lives of Julius Caesar, Brutus, Marcus Antonious and Coriolanous in the translation of Sir Thomas North Edited: with an introduction and glossary, and parallel passages from Shakespeare's plays by T. B. J. Spencer Cover: design by Romek Marber Date Published: 1964 Pages: 368pp. Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd Price: 12/6d.
Y44	Series No.: Y44 Title: POETRY AND EXPERIENCE Author: Archibald MacLeish Cover: designed by Dennis Neale, photograph by Max Garland Date Published: 1965 Pages: 192pp. Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd Price: 8/6d.
Y45	Series No.: Y45 Title: RENAISSANCE DIPLOMACY Author: Garrett Mattingly Cover: shows detail from 'Reception of English Ambassador at Constantinople', school of bellini Date Published: 1965 Pages: 320pp. Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd Price: 12/6d.
Y46	Series No.: Y46 Title: DRAMA: FROM IBSEN TO ELIOT Author: Raymond Williams Cover: shows a stage set by Remygius Geyling for Peer Gynt Date Published: 1964 Pages: 320pp. Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd Price: 12/6d.
Y47	Series No.: Y47 Title: THE DIARIES OF FRANZ KAFKA 1910-23 Edited: by Max Brod Cover: design by Graham Bishop Date Published: 1964 Pages: 526pp. Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd Price: 18/6d.
Y48	Series No.: Y48 Title: SHAKESPEARE AND ELIZABETHAN POETRY: A study of his earlier work in relation to the poetry of the time Author: Muriel C. Bradbrook Cover: shows Hillard's portrait of an unknown man against a background of flames, Victoria and Albert Museum Date Published: 1964 Pages: 254pp. Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd Price: 12/6d.
Y49	Series No.: Y49 Title: REVALUATION: Tradition and Development in English Poetry Author: F. R. Leavis Cover: designed by Alan Spain Date Published: 1964 Pages: 224pp. Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd Price: 12/6d.
Y50	Series No.: Y50 Title: A HISTORY OF THE CRUSADES - VOLUME 1: THE FIRST CRUSADE and the Foundation of the Kingdom of Jerusalem Author: Steven Runciman Cover: shows a view of Jerusalem from the Book of Hours of René of Anjou, 1435-36, British Museum Date Published: 1965 Pages: 380pp. Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd Price: 14/-
Y54	Series No.: Y54 Title: ROMAN VERGIL Author: W. F. Jackson Knight Cover: shows the head of Vergil, at the Louvres, photograph by Chris Marker (Snark International) Date Published: 1966 Pages: 464pp. Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd Price: 15/- Image and additional information courtesy of Stéphane Vitali

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