Penguin book covers through the years – in pictures

The best of the famous publishing house's jacket designs – from the classic colour bands to illustrations by Banksy and Shepard Fairey
  
  


Penguin covers: Flying Dutchman by Anthony Fokker, 1938
Flying Dutchman by Anthony Fokker, 1938. Photograph: Penguin
Penguin covers: Popular English Art by Noel Carrington and Clarke Hutton, 1945.
Popular English Art by Noel Carrington and Clarke Hutton, 1945. Photograph: Penguin
Penguin covers: Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, with a Shepard Fairey cover illustration for its 2008 edition. Photograph: Penguin
Penguin covers: White Maa's Saga by Eric Linklater
White Maa's Saga by Eric Linklater, 1963, with an illustration by John Griffiths. Photograph: Penguin
Penguin covers: A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, 1985.
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, 1985. Photograph: Penguin
Penguin covers: Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse.
Penguin Modern Classic edition of Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse. Photograph: Penguin
Penguin covers: The Great Escape by Paul Brickhill, 1957.
The Great Escape by Paul Brickhill, 1957. Photograph: Penguin
Penguin covers: The Case of the Caretaker's Cat, by Erle Stanley Gardner.
The Case of the Caretaker's Cat, by Erle Stanley Gardner. Photograph: Penguin
Penguin covers: And the Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave
And the Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave, featuring a cover illustration by Banksy. Photograph: Penguin
Penguin covers: The Graduate by Charles Webb, 1969.
The Graduate by Charles Webb, 1969.



Read more in Penguin by Design – a Cover Story, by Phil Baines. Photograph: Penguin
 

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