Anthony Richard James Wylie Godwin (17 December 1919[1] – 15 March 1976)[2] was an influential British publisher of the 1960s/1970s.
Born in Ledbury, he started the avant-garde bookshop Better Books in Charing Cross Road, where author Barry Miles worked.
In May 1960, Godwin was recruited to join the senior editorial group at Penguin Books and rose to Chief Editor.
With this aim in mind, he hired Germano Facetti in January 1961, who replaced the original Penguin cover design system with the grid layout.
[5] In 1967, Godwin published Penguin's English edition of acclaimed French cartoonist Siné's periodical Massacre.