Everymans Library Ltd

General information

Everyman’s Library has a catalogue that few publishers can rival in paperback and of course none in hardback. We have published Robert Fitzgerald’s distinguished translations of Homer and Virgil, an edition of Shakespeare with more than 700 pages of magisterial introductions by Tony Tanner, the only complete edition available in English of Vasari’s Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects, Allen Mandelbaum’s fine translation of Dante’s Divine Comedy – the only edition to include Botticelli’s extraordinary pen and silverpoint drawings – the most complete one-volume Goethe in English, and Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky’s ongoing great translations of the nineteenth-century Russian classics.

In 1992 we launched a series of children’s classics, bringing back into print illustrators such as Aubrey Beardsley, Ivan Bilibin, Walter Crane, Kate Greenaway, Mervyn Peake, Heath Robinson and his brother Charles. This was followed by the hugely popular Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets series which now has more than eighty titles in print. In 1993 we also launched the ambitious Everyman Guides, highly illustrated and hugely informative art and architectural guides, which in turn have been followed by the CityMap Guides which combine a pocket guidebook with maps that unfold. In 2000, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the death of P.G. Wodehouse, we launched the first collected edition of the English language’s greatest comic writer. Everyman’s Library is now an imprint of Alfred A. Knopf with more than six hundred titles in print.