Monday, November 9, 2009
The earliest dustjackets
As my stock is generally 20th century; pony books not being a popular subject before the 1920s, I very rarely come across truly early examples of book development, which is why I found this article so fascinating, together with the example of the dustjacket for Friendship's Offering, published in 1830, and found in a collection of uncatalogued ephemera in the Bodleian.
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2 comments:
Thanks for the link. Very interesting. Now we have Photoshop and can do all kinds of crazy and cool things to design an dust cover.
Stephen Tremp
It's a world away now, isn't it? I would have liked to see what the dustjacket designers of the 19th century would have made of the modern ability to add glitter.
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