Penguin Collectors Society

The weather is certainly setting March up to come in like a lion and my choice of title, which amusingly came up in Eggheads recently, has to be by Apsley Cherry-Garrard!

We are moving through winter, the days are (slowly) lengthening and the snowdrops are popping out so it is time to have a recap of what's on and what to watch out for.

In Penguin Points [PC88] members were alerted to an exhibition Designs on Britain which is now running at The Jewish Museum in Camden Town.

A facsimile reprint of Herbert Spencer's splendid 1962 survey of Penguin design, first issued in Typographica 5, with 28 colour and black-and-white images of Penguin covers. It also includes the foldout showing a further 36 covers which illustrate the development of Penguin cover design. In addition...