Shakespeare and World Book Night

Today is widely recognised as Shakespeare's birthday but it is also, as I learned from my newspaper this morning, World Book Night when millions of books are given away to deserving causes. This blip is a section of my own bookshelves containing Orange spined Penguin Books, a few Classic Penguins with their black spines and some Signet editions of several Shakespeare plays. These are about 45 years old as they were the prescribed editions for study at Edinburgh University at the time I was there