Creator
Andre Maurois
Title
Ariel
Coverage
London
Publisher
Penguin
Date
1935
Description
Penguin no. 1, with dustjacket, published in 1935 as an imprint of the Lane brother’s The Bodley Head. The earliest ten titles – published simultaneously – established the color code jacket scheme. The dark blue-purple cover here indicates the biographical subject matter, a study of Percy Bysshe Shelley, published under the pen name of French author Emile Herzog. The famous orange was reserved for novels, crime novels were green, with other colors added later.
Source
From the collection of Charlotte Priddle