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Book Covers
 Websites presented in alphabetical order Bloomsbury: Books, Art and Design 
 This online exhibit explores the artistic activity of the Bloomsbury group of artists and writers. Members included artists Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, Dora Carrington, and Roger Fry. The site features portraits, designs by the group's Omega Workshops, and Hogarth Press dust jackets, such as those created by Bell for works by her sister Virginia Woolf. From the Victoria University Library, University of Toronto. http://library.vicu.utoronto.ca/exhibitions/bloomsbury/ Topics: Literary Movements and Periods, Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts Last updated Mar 21, 2006 Children's Books of the Early Soviet Era
Includes historical discussions and high-quality images of book covers. Browsable by major topics, such as Revolution and Industry , Women , and Agit-prop . From McGill University Libraries, Montreal, Canada. Some portions also in French. http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/russian/ Topics: Children's Literature, Literature & Books, Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts, Schools of Art Last updated Nov 26, 2002 Crimeboss: Crime Comic Books of the 1940s & 1950s
This site explores the popular crime comics of the 1940s and 1950s, known for their violent content. See History for information on titles and publishers, the 1954 Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency, and the eventual end of crime and horror comics after the adoption of the comics code. Also features a gallery of comic covers (browsable by title) and links. http://www.crimeboss.com/ Topics: Arts and Humanities, Literature: Fiction, Mysteries and More, Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts Last updated Jun 25, 2003 Glasgow University Library Special Collections Department: Book of the Month
Collection of illustrated essays about historic and rare editions of books such as Samuel Johnson's "A Dictionary of the English Language," Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels," Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales," Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass," and Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol." Includes monthly selections back to mid-1999. From the Glasgow University (Scotland) Library Special Collections Department. http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/month/current.html Topics: Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts Last updated Dec 4, 2007 Jack London Collection
A gallery of "first editions of Jack London's books, each of which he inscribed to his wife, Charmian ... includ[ing] a personal photograph glued inside the cover." Features images of covers, title pages, London's inscriptions, and photographs ("pictures range from vacation snapshots to family portraits to pin-up photos of London"). Browsable by title and year of publication. From the Department of Special Collections and Archives, Utah State University. http://library.usu.edu/Specol/digitalexhibits/jacklondon/index.htm Topics: Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts Last updated Mar 27, 2007 Judging A Book By Its Cover: Gold-Stamped Publishers' Bindings of the 19th Century
An exhibit of English and American 19th century book covers with gold-stamping, a process that "brought to the mass-produced book some of the prestige associated with gold-tooled leather bindings of the pre-industrial era." Browsable by topic (vignettes, traditional designs, classical motifs, coats of arms, Wild West, travel books, designer bindings). Also features a gallery of selected book spines. From New York's Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/exhibitions/gilded/ Topics: Arts and Humanities, Libraries & Archives by Type, Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts Last updated Jul 5, 2004 Publishers' Bindings Online, 1815-1930: The Art of Books
This site provides a database of images of thousands of bookbindings. Browse by subject (including items such as color of binding or stamping), or search by keyword to see front and back covers, a spine image, endpapers, and a physical description of each book. Also includes brief biographies of selected designers. The project is a partnership of the University of Alabama University Libraries and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries. http://bindings.lib.ua.edu Topics: Arts and Humanities, Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts Last updated Apr 12, 2005 WVU Libraries: Isaac Asimov Collection
Science fiction writer Isaac Asimov is respected "for popularizing or, as he called it, 'translating' science for the lay reader." This online display "features visuals and descriptions of some of the over 600 books, games, audio recordings, videos, and wall charts included in the West Virginia University Libraries Asimov Collection." Also find the Laws of Robotics (first promulgated in the 1950 book, "I, Robot"). Includes related links. http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/exhibits/asimov/ Topics: Arts and Humanities, Literature: Fiction, Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts, Science, Science Last updated Mar 15, 2004 |
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