1943 ZAd

[A]⁴ B-C⁸ [D]⁸.

[4] 1-35 [+17].

Crown 8^o: 7" × 4¾", trimmed, white wove, no mark, [D] of thicker white wove, no mark; 10(+1)pt. Baskerville, 9(+1)pt. Baskerville; 16 colour halftone illustrations in [D]; casing, white paper with repeated design in olive-green brown and black, and on upper cover integral panel 1½" × 2¼" printed: ‘[within black and brown border] EDIBLE FUNGI | by | John Ramsbottom’, similarly up spine, a panel 2¼" × ¼": ‘[within a ruled border] EDIBLE FUNGI’, and near foot of spine the Penguin mark with the number K 13 below it.

The King Penguin serial no, K13 seems to have been replaced at some point by K14; a revision dated 1948 exists.

• Baskerville
• Baskerville, 9pt.
• Baskerville, 10pt.
• John Swain and Sons, Barnet, Herts.
• King Penguin book
• King Penguin Books, London and New York see also Penguin Books, Ltd. (Harmondsworth, Middlesex) (main imprint)
• Ramsbottom, John, 1885–1974 ODNB