PENGUIN SERIES




List of all early Penguin Series in Chronological Order of commencement

START DATE	PENGUIN SERIES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER	END DATE
July 1935	Main Series
April 1937	Penguin Shakespeare (B)	September 1959
May 1937	Pelican (A)
November 1937	Penguin Specials (S)
November 1937	Penguin Parade (PD)	July 1948
May 1938	Penguin Illustrated Classics (C)	May 1938
March 1939	Penguin Guides (G)	April 1960
November 1939	King Penguin (K)	July 1959
June 1940	Prints by Topolski (PA)	March 1941
August 1940	Penguin Hansard (H)	September 1942
August 1940	Australian 'Lothian' Penguins [AUS]	September 1946
November 1940	Penguin New Writing (NW)	September 1950
December 1940	Puffin Picture Books (PP)	March 1965
January 1941	Fighting Forces - Penguin Specials in USA [S-USA]	July 1946
June 1941	Penguin Poets (D)
October 1941	Éditions Pingouin (F)	May 1945
December 1941	Puffin Story Books (PS)
1942	Penguin Books (New York) [USA]	1948
1942	The Prisoners of War Book Service [PoW]	1943
April 1942	Planning Design and Art (E) 'E' subsequently used for "The Things We See"	December 1951
July 1942	Miscellaneous (Q)
October 1942	Forces Book Club [FBC]	September 1943
November 1942	Egyptian Penguins [Egypt]	Mid-1943
September 1943	Penguin 'Transatlantic' Magazine (T)	June 1946
November 1943	Baby Puffin Books (BP)	April 1948
May 1944	Penguin Modern Painters (MP)	January 1959
1944	Penguin Reference Books (R)
October 1944	Éditions Penguin (V)	May 1947
July 1945	Penguin New Biology (NB)	March 1960
July 1945	Ptarmigan Books (PT)	November 1947
July 1945	Penguin Services Editions (SE)	December 1945
October 1945	Penguin Russian Review (RR)	February 1948
November 1945	Penguin Handbook (PH)
January 1946	Penguin Classics (L)
January 1946	Pelican Books (New York) [P-USA]	1948
June 1946	Science News (SN)	March 1960
August 1946	The Penguin Film Review (FR)	August 1949
February 1947	Penguin Music Magazine (MM)	July 1949
June 1947	The Things We See (E)	May 1950
December 1947	Puffin Cut-Out Books (PC)	October 1953
September 1948	Porpoise Books (J)	September 1948
December 1948	Penguin Prints (PR)	April 1952
June 1949	Penguin (music) Scores (SC)	April 1956
July 1951	Buildings of England (BE)
May 1953	Pelican History of Art (Z)
October 1953	West African Penguins (WA)	July 1965
October 1956	Pelican Shakespeare [U.S.] (AB)	May 1966
November 1960	Penguin Plays (PL)
1961	Horwitz Penguins [Australia] (Horwitz)	1963
January 1962	Peregrine Books (Y)
April 1962	English Language Book Society (ACO)	1968
June 1962	African Library (AP)	1975
October 1962	Penguin Peacock Books (PK)	1981
March 1963	Australian Penguin Books (AU)	1969/70
Summer 1965	The Shropshire Mathematics Experiment	May 1967 (into 'X')
September 1965	Penguin English Library (EL)
August 1966	Penguin Modern Psychology (UPS)
November 1966	Penguin Modern Playwrights (NP)
May 1967	Penguin Education (X)
June 1967	New Penguin Shakespeare (NS)
June 1967	Penguin Shakespeare Library (SL)
1967	Penguin History of Britain (SH)
September 1968	Pelican Classics (AC)	1978
October 1968	Picture Puffin Books (PX)
April 1970	Penguin International Editions (054)
1971	Penguin University Books (PUB)	1974
1972	Puffin Explorer Books (PE)	1975
June 1978	Penguin Nature Guides [NG]	1980