What makes an outstanding book cover? The Book Jacket Designers Guild of the 1940s and ’50s defined the art as the “successful integration of concept with graphic means … and expression of the spirit ...

We are cautioned to avoid judging a book by its cover, yet that is precisely what publishers hope we will do. Dust-jacket (book cover) illustration, which came into its own in the 1920s, has long ...

Book-Jackets: Their History, Forms, and Use by G. Thomas Tanselle (Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia) Many readers suffer a tormented relationship with book jackets or, as most ...

One is formed of people who religiously remove the dust jacket of every volume to examine the cover design. The other consists of those who never bother to check what is under the jacket. I myself am ...

“How old is the book jacket?” asked John T. Winterrich in a column he wrote for Publishers Weekly in 1929 and answered that he didn't know of any before 1896. Intrigued, and certainly provoked, book ...