Spring 2018
From cover to cover
John Minton
Heather Standring
Bill Bragg
Book design
Design history
Graphic design
Illustration
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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).
Steven Heller, design writer, London
Read the full version in Eye no. 96 vol. 24, 2018
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