Everyman Notes & News
27 November 2009. We have added several new things to the site. The Other Bindings section now has an image of an experimental suede binding as well as a rebound volume from the Taylor/Burton collection. Under Other Early Jackets, we have added images of the "dandelion" reference jacket and an unusual experimental jacket design. There is also a new Library Dust Jackets section, and in Special Dust Jackets there is a rare cover for the 1942 edition of the Everyman's English Dictionary.
Finally, we have added the text of Robert Lynd's 1946 obituary tribute to Ernest Rhys.
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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
