Lady Chatterley's Lover

London Penguin Books. 2006. Beautiful edition of an infamous classic, designed and signed by Sir Paul Smith Limited edition. No. 78/1000. Signed by Sir Paul Smith on title page. 245x170mm. pp. xxxvi, 364. Publisher's purple cloth with white lettering to spine and front cover. Textile dust jacket with embroidery to spine, front and back covers. Front and back pastedown and free endpapers printed with botanical illustrations in purple ink. Text printed in purple ink. In excellent condition throughout. To mark their 60th anniversary, Penguin commissioned notable British creatives to design new editions of five classic texts. This edition of Lawrence's notorious text features a dust jacket made from raw silk exquisitely embroidered with a forget-me-not motif, and a silk ribbon bookmark woven in Paul Smith's signature stripes. Includes Doris Lessing's introduction on the influence of Lawrence's sexual politics, and Michael Squire's edits and notes. A beautiful edition of a groundbreaking, banned book. [ref. 5273]