The Complete Plain Words

by Sir Ernest Gowers
David R. Godine, Publisher

This title was a backlist staple at Godine, with a very sedate calligraphic jacket. When we reprinted it for the first time in softcover, we somewhat cautiously reworked the jacket’s color scheme, but when the time came for a second reprint, we decided to go with something more playful to counteract the book’s reputation as a rather stern guide to good writing. The text in my illustration is taken directly from one of the book’s more horrifying examples of bureaucrat-ese. 

Softcover, 5.5 × 8.5"