Penguin
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Penguin
Classmark: BC MS 20c Herbert Read/4/1/57
Related People: E M. Forster(Sender); Sir Nikolaus Pevsner(Sender); Kenneth Clark(Sender); Paul Nash(Sender)
Creator(s): Forster, E M (1879-1970); Pevsner, Sir Nikolaus (1902-1983); Clark, Kenneth (1903-1983); Nash, Paul (1889-1946)
Date(s): 1941 - 1968
Size and medium: 1 file
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/704661
Collection group(s): Herbert Read Collection
Description
Correspondence and associated material from the publisher Penguin. Herbert Read published several titles with Penguin including The Meaning of Art and Contemporary British Art.
Letters from 1941 include 1 brief letter and 1 postcard to Herbert Read from E.M. Forster. Forster owned what was purported to be William Blake's own copy of Songs of Innocence and Experience. Read arranged to see the volume for Nikolaus Pevsner and to identify plates to be reproduced in a King Penguin edition.
Letters from 1942 include correspondence between Herbert Read, Kenneth Clark and Paul Nash. Clark asked Read to write on Paul Nash for a Penguin Art series. Read was initially doubtful, but persuaded by Nash. Nash's letter includes a brief description of his relation to the 'Surrealist party.'
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