A visual resource for collectors of the original Everyman's Library, a series of reprint classics published 1906-1982 by J. M. Dent & Sons (London) and E. P. Dutton (New York).
Listed as one of "the best and most comprehensive online exhibits about books and manuscripts" by Fine Books and Collections (Spring 2010).
Supplements Terry Seymour's definitive works, available from AuthorHouse:
A Guide to Collecting Everyman's Library (2005)
A Printing History of Everyman's Library 1906-1982 (2011)
Everyman Remembers
Good titles like good lyrics drop from heaven. The finding of one, arresting and explicit, was the grand crux.
We must have made up a score of possible names for the new series ... but not one of them quite satisfied us.
Then one day, walking along Garrick Street past the doors of the Garrick Club, not thinking of anything in particular,
I suddenly remembered the lines of the old mystery play: "Everyman, I will go with thee and be thy guide, In thy most need
to go by thy side"—that gave me the cue, and sent me marching into the office where the old chief sat.
"Eureka!" I said. "I have found the title— Everyman's Library." He stared for a moment incredulously, then said,
"Why, yes, you have got it!"
—Ernest Rhys
