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Layer 0: uniform imprints, whose spine colour and trim are knowable without looking at a single pixel. Curated by hand in series.json, and every number is copied from evidence, never estimated.

Uniform imprints, at their declared heights
Penguin Little Black Classics
Penguin Modern Classics
Penguin Classics
Vintage Classics
Oxford World's Classics
Fitzcarraldo Editions (fiction)
Fitzcarraldo Editions (essays)
Persephone Books

Heights are the imprint's declared trim; widths on this diagram are nominal, because thickness never comes from a series. The dashed spine has no verified trim, so none is drawn.

SeriesSpineH × WSpine uniformTrim verifiedEmitsEvidenceMatched
Penguin Little Black Classics
penguin-little-black-classics
black160 × 110 mmyesyes
colour · 0.90
H/W · 0.75
Waterstones listing for 9780241252086 (White Nights): 160 x 110 x 12 mm5
5 seeded
Penguin Clothbound Classics
penguin-clothbound-classics
varies204 × 132 mmnono
H/W · 0.50
trim quoted in the PRD table without a listing; unverified, so 0.503
Penguin Modern Classics
penguin-modern-classics
grey198 × 129 mmyesno
colour · 0.90
H/W · 0.50
UK B-format default; no single listing transcribed, so this ships at the unverified 0.50402
402 seeded
Penguin Classics
penguin-classics
black198 × 129 mmyesno
colour · 0.90
H/W · 0.50
UK B-format default; no single listing transcribed, so this ships at the unverified 0.501,104
1,104 seeded
Pelican Books
pelican-books
varies198 × 129 mmnono
H/W · 0.50
UK B-format default, unverified, so 0.5079
Vintage Classics
vintage-classics
red198 × 129 mmyesyes
colour · 0.90
H/W · 0.75
Waterstones listing for 9780241420294: 198 x 129 x 18 mm197
197 seeded
Oxford World's Classics
oxford-worlds-classics
white196 × 129 mmyesyes
colour · 0.90
H/W · 0.75
multiple Waterstones listings agree at 196 x 129 mm1,005
1,005 seeded
Fitzcarraldo Editions (fiction)
fitzcarraldo-fiction
blue197 × 126 mmyesno
colour · 0.90
H/W · 0.50
approximate trim quoted in the PRD table; no listing transcribed, so 0.500
Fitzcarraldo Editions (essays)
fitzcarraldo-essays
white197 × 126 mmyesno
colour · 0.90
H/W · 0.50
approximate trim quoted in the PRD table; no listing transcribed, so 0.500
Persephone Books
persephone-books
greynone shippedyesno
colour · 0.90
standard single-volume trim UNVERIFIED. The PRD says do not ship a number and no number is shipped: this row emits a colour and no dimension row at all.9
9 seeded
Everyman's Library
everymans-library
varies203 × 124 mmnono
H/W · 0.50
approximate trim quoted in the PRD table; unverified, so 0.50274
NYRB Classics
nyrb-classics
varies206 × 127 mmnoyes
H/W · 0.75
9781681370668 listed at 5 x 0.5 x 8.1 in = 127.0 x 12.7 x 205.7 mm; H and W rounded to the nearest mm, thickness discarded (a series never sets thickness)266
Wordsworth Classics
wordsworth-classics
varies198 × 129 mmnono
H/W · 0.50
UK B-format default, unverified, so 0.50183
Library of America
library-of-america
variesnone shippednononothingno trim transcribed; ships no numbers121
Faber Poetry
faber-poetry
variesnone shippednononothingno trim transcribed; ships no numbers31

A match needs a series term in the edition's series list or its title's parenthetical and a publisher term. Never publisher alone: Penguin publishes tens of thousands of books that look nothing alike.