You are invited
to the opening
Saturday
February 7, 5pm
'THE
PENGUINERY'
a gallery
installation
vintage Penguin books 1935 - 1970s
In 1935 Allen Lane, with his colleague V.K. Krishna Menon, began publishing high-quality writing, with innovatively designed covers, at an exceptionally affordable price - the equivalent of 'a packet of cigarettes' - for a growing reading public then poorly served by publishers.
Tivoli has always stocked Old
Penguins, but with 100s more lurking at Liz's home, this exhibit in the gallery space enables the
design qualities of various series to be given more focus. The project is partly inspired by a
2005 exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, 'Penguin Book
Design'.
Vintage
Penguins, especially series like green-cover crime, King Penguins, or pre-WWII
Penguin Specials, have become very collectable.Tivoli hopes to see the display grow and
change over the exhibit time-frame.
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