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![]() For this Dent asked the Monotype corporation to design a new typeface: Veronese was a remake of a foundry-face Dent had used before. ![]() Dent followed the design principles and to a certain extent the style established by William Morris in his Kelmscott Press. Dent (itself later a division of Weidenfeld & Nicolson and presently an imprint of Orion Books), who continue to publish Everyman Paperbacks.Įveryman's Library was conceived in 1905 by London publisher Joseph Malaby Dent, whose goal was to create a 1,000-volume library of world literature that was affordable for, and that appealed to, every kind of person, from students to the working classes to the cultural elite. It is currently published in hardback by Random House. ![]() Dent hardback with its distinctive yellow dust jacket, an early example of an Everyman Paperback also published by Dent from the 1960s, the present design of Everyman paperbacks published by Dent since the 1990s, an example of the initial 'plain' hardback Everyman volume published by David Campbell, an updated version of Campbell's Everyman hardbacks with a striated front cover and orange spine with black band.Įveryman's Library is a series of reprints of classic literature, primarily from the Western canon. ![]() (click on thumbnail to view the image in its original size) Different incarnations of Everyman's Library throughout history. ![]()
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