

A shelf of Penguin Classics in their iconic black editions — Hardy, Henry James, Charlotte Brontë, Dickens, E.M. Forster, Thackeray, Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell — rendered in meticulous detail by Jude Smith of Design Smith. For the reader whose shelves are organised by publisher, and who considers the black Penguin spine one of the great design achievements of the twentieth century.