The Everyman's Library

Style IV 1953-1968

Binding

1968’s Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell shows the final binding style of EML. Overall, it represents the biggest change in format yet. These editions are slightly larger than the previous ones and feature all new designs for the binding, paste-downs, and title pages. The binding is similar to the previous style in that it contains the title at the top of the spine, but “Everyman’s Library” has been replaced by an overlapping, cursive “E” and “L”

Spine

Gaskell, Wives and Daughters, PR4710 .W5 1966 GREENE’S LIBRARY

Paste-down

The paste-down for style IV was a simple, repeating pattern of overlapping “E” and “L” which appear on the spine. This 1967 edition of August Strindberg’s The Red Room: Scenes of Artistic and Literary Life is one example. Both examples of Style IV are from Graham Greene’s Library.

Paste-down

Strindberg, The Red Room: Scenes of Artistic and Literary Life, PT9813 .R6 E5 1967 GREENE’S LIBRARY

Title Page

The title pages for Style IV of EML were the simplest yet. They had no distinguishing feature other than a printer’s device of a dolphin wrapped around an anchor.

Title Page

Gaskell, Wives & Daughters, PR4710 .W5 1966 GREENE’S LIBRARY

American EML 1950-1953
EML Books from Collections in the Burns Library