[Rarebooks] FS - King Penguins complete set

[GREENFIELD BOOKS]

*KING PENGUIN / /A COMPLETE SET OF 76 DIFFERENT HARD COVER TITLES, MANY 
IN PUBLISHER'S ORIGINAL DUST JACKETS./* Penguin Books, London. 1st 
edition, 12mo.

The King Penguin books were a series of pocket-sized monographs, 
published by Penguin Books between 1939 and 1959. They were done to 
emulate the Insel-Bucherei series, published in Germany by Insel Verlag 
earlier in the century, and they were pioneer volumes for Penguin in 
that they were their first books with hard covers and their first with 
colour printing. The books originally combined a classic series of 
colour plates with an authoritative text. Thus, the first two volumes 
featured 16 plates from John Gould's "The Birds of Britain" (1873) with 
historical introduction and commentary on each plate by Phyllis 
Barclay-Smith, and 16 plates from Redoute's "Roses" (1817-24) with 
historical introduction and commentary by John Ramsbottom. The third 
volume began the alternative practice of colour plates from a variety of 
sources. Some of the volumes, such as Nikolaus Pevsner's "Leaves of 
Southwell" (1945), or Wilfrid Blunt's "Tulipomania" (1950), were 
pioneering works of scholarship. Others, such as "The Bayeux Tapestry" 
(1943), by Eric Maclagan, "Ur: The First Phases" (1946), by Leonard 
Woolley, or
"Russian Icons" (1947), by David Talbot Rice, were distillations by 
experts of their own pioneering works. (Wikipedia) The series ran to 76 
volumes under editors Elizabeth Senior (1939-1943) and Nikolaus Pevsner 
(1943-1959). Our set is complete. Titles include "Magic Books from 
Mexico", Egyptian Paintings", "Ur: The First Phases", "Children as 
Artists", etc. etc. Thirty-four volumes are in encased in their original 
dust jackets; 42 do not have one. All volumes show some wear, mainly 
minimal. A few have bookplates, booksellers' tickets, or an ink 
inscription. Sold as one lot.

Price:      $350.00.

Terms of sale: The price is in USD. Payment by check, credit card, or 
PayPal. Postage and packing charge will be $10, sent anywhere in North 
America; overseas $35. Returnable within seven days of receipt if found 
to be not as described.

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