Publisher SeriesPenguin Illustrated Classics
| Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 80,635 copies, 1,369 reviews | 1 |
| A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy by Laurence Sterne 1,733 copies, 24 reviews | 2 |
| Some Tales Of Mystery And Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe 11 copies | 3 |
| Walden by Henry David Thoreau 14,129 copies, 191 reviews | 4 |
| Selected Poems, Penguin Illustrated Classics by Robert Browning 7 copies | 5 |
| The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of Yorks, Mariner. I by Daniel Defoe 3 copies | 6 |
| Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life by Herman Melville 2,166 copies, 38 reviews | 8 |
| The Story of My Heart by Richard Jefferies 132 copies, 5 reviews | 9 |
| Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift 500 copies, 4 reviews | 10 |
DescriptionsEdit Descriptions
- This series was intended to offer the public cheap editions of established, out-of-copyright works adorned with specially commissioned woodcut illustrations. Artist and author Robert Gibbings was appointed art editor of the series. He had owned the Golden Cockerel Press and was an important patron of wood engravers. The first ten volumes were published in 1938 but the series was not considered a commercial success and no further volumes were produced. The illustrations are a nice collection of woodcuts by nine contemporary engravers. It is a pity that the cover priority default on LT doesn't allow selection of the covers from the correct editions but four have made the cut and can be seen above. (English, Member-written)