Everyman's Library Cloth Binding Color Codes

Each Everyman's Library book has a colored cloth binding denoting the period of the work:

• Scarlet - Contemporary Classics
• Navy - 20th Century
• Burgundy - Victorian Literature/19th Century
• Dark Green - Pre-Victorian/Romantic/18th Century
• Light Blue - 17th Century and Earlier
• Celadon Green - Non-Western Classics
• Mauve - Ancient Classics
• Sand - Poetry

The above information relating to the colored cloth binding of Everyman's Library books is 100% resourced from Random House’s Everyman’s Library page, found immediately below:

http://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/classics/about.htm