Special Series
A number of titles with a common theme were given special wrappers.
These were introduced in the1940s and continued through the 1950s until the early 1960s.
Special wrappers have been seen in the following series:
Subjects listed above which are underlined will take you to another page. Click on any to get more information and pictures. Subjects that do not as yet have a separate page are shown below.
A.B.C. OF GARDENING
Two designs for the ABC of Gardening Series were used.
The first (left) has a distinctive spade and bird design on the front wrapper cover. There are 2 slightly different styles.
Different colours for the top panel were used.
Dates seen: 1949 to 1963
The second (right) was simpler design as shown on the right similar to the general series.
The spade and bird are made logo size.
Dates seen : 1959 to 1963
FARMING
The Teach Yourself Farming series used green and yellow with the split cover style. The Two Towers logo sometimes appears in the front cover design but is always on the spine in green on a yellow background.
The title "Good Farming" has "key volume" on the front cover.
Dates seen: 1944 to 1947
They are all listed in the alphabetical sequence in the drop down menu at the top - look under G then Good ...
HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
ThIs series used a background predominately of deers. The colours are :
blue (volume 1)
orange (volume 2)
dark green (volume 3)
red (volume 4)
dark orange (volume 5)
dark red (volume 6)
Dates seen: 1944 to 1950
They are all listed in the alphabetical sequence in the drop down menu at the top - under H then History of English Literature
HISTORY OF PAINTING
A departure using a larger format (7.5 by 9.25 inches) than the regular titles. Each front cover had a typical painting from the given period. Unusually they were not given TRNs.
There were ten volumes :
I The Italian School part 1
II The Italian School part 2
III The Flemish School
IVThe Spanish School
VThe German School
VI The Dutch School
VII the French School
VIII The British School
IX The XIX Century
X The XX Century
They are all listed in the alphabetical sequence in the drop down menu at the top - under H then History of Painting
HISTORY
The teach Yourself History Library began with the wrappers which had a three-lined frame surrounding a central panel. The frame had TEACH YOURSELF at the top and HISTORY at the bottom.
Underneath was :
THIS IS A VOLUME IN THE TEACH YOURSELF
HISTORY LIBRARY EDITED BY A.L.ROUSE
AND PUBLISHED BY
THE ENGLISH UNIVERSITIES PRESS
The central panel used a number of colours with the same title having different colours with different impressions.
The central panel colours I have seen are : blue,red, green. Dates seen: 1946, 1947, 1948, 1951
On the wrappers the list of current titles are sometimes grouped according to the continent of the subject discussed.
The second series were much plainer in aspect. The main words in the title were highlighted with a colour (red, blue, green or brown). Dates seen : 1953, 1956, 1958, 1961, 1964, 1966
