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...Snark came out in 1876. Snark's humble grey wrapper shouted critical praise for the two Alice books. As the first known jacket to carry advertisements, it was the ancestor of the modern commercial jacket. The English publisher who pioneered designs for fiction jackets was T. Fisher Unwin. As early as 1896, Unwin adored books with a design illustrating either an incident or a character in black silhouette on green Paper...
...John Robert Renals Tolkien, Houghton Mifflin, $15, or George Allen and Unwin, $12, 1191 pages. Issued in three volumes as THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING, THE TWO TOWERS, THE RETURN OF THE KING...
...sight of this handsome and practical hand," says West, "came as a revelation . . . [and I] thought how wonderful it would be if people wrote like that nowadays." Last week, to help people write like that, West published a small history of calligraphy (Written by Hand; Allen & Unwin; 7s.3d.), with more than a score of models, past & present, for readers to copy from...
London Publisher Philip Unwin thinks he knows why Britons, cabined in their own austere little isles, have been snapping up such books. "Every man, whether at a factory bench or sitting in an office with his hat and rolled umbrella hung behind him, secretly longs for the sort of adventure of which these books tell. The illusion is heightened because they are true stories. He knows it can be done and has been done...
...book, probably two large volumes, will be published in America by the Oxford University Press and in England by Allen and Unwin...