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And that's it for my look at 1995. Look, at least they tried...

Today in history: 911A.D. and Rollo* becomes Duke of Normandy after signing the treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte with Charles the Simple!

(*file photo)

Dream of the Rarebit Fiend was written and illustrated by cartoonist Winsor McCay, who was already busy in 1904 illustrating Little Sammy Sneeze for the New York Herald.

The Roads Of Heaven, by Melissa Scott. Doubleday, 1988. Cover by Ron Walotsky.

The Snail Watcher And Other Stories, by Patricia Highsmith. Doubleday, 1970. Cover by Tim Lewis.

They also predicted massice verandas for cities and moving houses by train. Still waiting...

Life in the year 2000, as predicted by Hildebrands chocolates (1900). #WorldChocolateDay

...and in came a riot! Aldridge treated the book cover as if it was a poster, and artists had a free rein to create and improvise. Only the Penguin logo in the corner told you who the publisher was.

Some books did avoid using the Young grid: Penguin Illustrated Classics (1938) and the King Penguin hardback range (1939) both used cover illustration, and during the war years a range of slightly chaotic grids and typefaces were used on other titles.

Allen Lane founded Penguin Books in 1935, aiming to bring high-quality paperbacks to the masses for the same price as a packet of cigarettes. Lane began by snapping up publishing rights for inexpensive mid-market novels and packaging them expertly for book lovers.