Art nouveau book covers

Art Nouveau book cover designs c1900

Maid Marian and Crochet Castle. Thomas Love Peacock. Illustrated by F.H. Townsend. With an Introduction by George Saintsbury. London: Macmillan and Co., 1895. Art nouveau peacock design by A A...

With books migrating to pads and pods this maybe a moot point. But before designed book jackets, book covers were the primary illustrative and typographical surface on a book. We’d save a lot of trees, if book jackets were no longer used. But then again, we will save even more trees once everything is digital and paper is a quaint reminder of more primitive communications. But enough of my speculative blather. I assure you that paper is here to stay (for a while) and it’s the

Selection of book covers produced during the bookbinding revolution of the 19th century and beyond.

Another of the lesser known HIBK (Had I But Known) authors praised by Howard Haycraft in his classic 1941 mystery genre survey, Murder for Pleasure, is Margaret Neilson Armstrong (1867-1944), a remarkable woman of many talents who happened to write three critically praised mystery novels near the end of her life (for Part One of this series see Anita Blackmon: HIBK Queen of Arkansas ). Born into one of New York's most socially prominent families, Margaret Armstrong surely had one of the most…

Spider Fawn Library c___l___o

≈ Beautiful Antique Books ≈ The Witching Hour | Augustus Thomas, 1908