The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles, Signet
Lots of all-caps Romanesque for the cover of Signet W4479, 1970. Originally designed by Herman Ihlenburg in 1874 for MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan, the bold condensed face with long serifs, split shade and decorative tendrils was revived by Photo-Lettering by 1960.
About the book, from Wikipedia:
The French Lieutenant’s Woman is a 1969 postmodern historical fiction novel by John Fowles. The plot explores the fraught relationship of gentleman and amateur naturalist Charles Smithson and Sarah Woodruff, the former governess and independent woman with whom he falls in love. The novel builds on Fowles’s authority in Victorian literature, both following and critiquing many of the conventions of period novels.
The book was the author’s third, after The Collector (1963), and The Magus (1965). […]
The novel was adapted as a 1981 film, written by playwright Harold Pinter and directed by Karel Reisz. The film starred Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons.
