A collection of 100 postcards each featuring a different & iconic Penguin book jacket From classics to crime here are over seventy years of quintessentially British design in one box In 1935 Allen Lane stood on a platform at Exeter railway station looking for a good book for the journey to London His disappointment at the poor range of paperbacks on offer led him to found Penguin Books The quality paperback had arrived Declaring that &good design is no more expensive than bad& Lane was adamant that his Penguin paperbacks should cost no more than a packet of cigarettes but that they should always look distinctive Ever since then from their original
- now world-famous
- look featuring three bold horizontal stripes through many different stylish inventive & iconic cover designs Penguin&s paperback jackets have been a constantly evolving part of Britain&s culture & whether they&re for classics crime reference or prize-winning novels they still follow Allen Lane&s original design mantra Sometimes you definitely should judge a book by its cover