Spring 2018

From cover to cover

The Illustrated Dust Jacket 1920-1970

By Martin Salisbury<br> Thames & Hudson, £24.95 $39.95<br>

Originally used to protect book bindings, dust jackets were often discarded before a book was shelved. But that was a long time ago. Since the early twentieth century, illustrated jackets have been like literary flowers to the reader bees. While the old adage about not judging a book by its cover may occasionally hold true, a cover provides other stimulating sensory pleasures…

Cover and spread for The Illustrated Dust Jacket 1920-1970 with jacket illustration by Bill Bragg.
Top: Spread showing jackets designed by Heather Standring: Mushroom Cooking (1954), The Warm Country (1960), Laugh Till You Cry (1955) and The Visitants (1955).

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Steven Heller, design writer, London

Read the full version in Eye no. 96 vol. 24, 2018

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