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ITT: Book art

>Best and worst book covers, in illustration or design
>Favourite illustrated books (which are not comics)
>Amazing editions of books
>Favourite paper, cover, size, markers, ears...
>Printed typography
etc

>> No.4241743
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Brb

>> No.4241933
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This has some lovely illustrations from Jules Guerin.

Will I be hated for posting these and bumping this not-very-lit related thread?

>> No.4241939
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Cozy scene from Michael Hague's Wind in the Willows

>> No.4241945
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Frank Schoonover is pretty sweet

>> No.4241956
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Franklin Booth's illustrations for The Flying Islands of the Night

>> No.4241960
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>> No.4241961
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Dore and Poe
I should have posted this for Halloween/Samhain

>> No.4241966

Anyone got any good minimalist covers?

>> No.4241968

>>4241966
Ulysses

>> No.4241970
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>>4241966

>> No.4241980
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sample from A Song of the English, Kipling. Ill. W. Heath Robinson
>>4241960
Saw this on a t-shirt the other day. Can we say "Gatsby T-core" now?

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>> No.4242000
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>> No.4242013
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>>4241966

>> No.4242021

>>4241704
N.C. Wyeth IS treasure island. His Last of the Mohicans work is equally great.

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>> No.4242383
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this one is pretty nice

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>>4241704
>worst book covers
Any book that gets turned into a movie, and then the book art gets the movie cover

Pisses me off so much. I generally hate pictures of real people on the front of my books - the best for me is some kind of art, especially if it's abstract-ish that goes well with the theme

When I think of 'nice book covers' this is the one that comes to mind out of the ones that I own

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>> No.4242670
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Two recent favorites.
Love the overlay of Lima streets on the dog's silhouette.
This version of the Land of Little Rain was published by University of New Mexico press in 1997 (tenth printing) and has the accompanying line-drawing illustrations of E. Boyd Smith. Spare illustration for spare landscapes. Beautiful.

>> No.4242678

movie cover < photo cover < painting/drawing cover < just the fucking title and author with a simple color or design

>> No.4242693
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Sad to say, I actually own this one. Shame.

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>>4242693
WOH. And I thought my cover was embarrassing

>> No.4242702
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>>4242693
Fucking Hell
Who thought this would be a good idea as a cover? It literally has no relation to the novel itself, missing the point of a byronic hero.

>> No.4242703
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This is a nice edition I picked up

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1/2

>> No.4242716
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>>4242714
2/2

Looks like the same artist. Anyone have any others?

>> No.4242722
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i like the colors of this and how goofy looking it is.

>> No.4242724
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Lewdest cover.

>> No.4242728

>>4242722
>No beards
Disgusting

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>>4242714
>>4242716
Artist seems to be William Edwards. Haven't found any others like them. Oh well
>>4242722
They look like a Beatles knockoff band for the older folks

>> No.4242742

>>4242724
is this supposed to look like a girl's legs

>> No.4242754

Sometimes you can tell when a book was produced from the cover art.
>>4241743
That one is just fake.
>>4241933
Could be anytime from the 1930s to the 1950s.
>>4241960
Horrible. 1980s.
>>4241970
1980s or 1990s.
>>4242013
1960s
>>4242383
Hmm. Don't know Hispanic style so well. My guess would be 1990s.
>>4242703
That's either Chris Ware or a blatant ripoff of Chris Ware, so 2000s.
>>4242714
>>4242716
Late 60s. Might not be the same artist, might be just the style.
>>4242722
Circa 1960. "European faux primitive" style. See Gustave Courbet, et al.
>>4242724
I don't believe that's a real cover.

>> No.4242764

>>4242754
The moby dick is real. Reverse google search it.

>> No.4242761

>>4242754
>Gustave Courbet
I am an idiot. I didn't mean Courbet, I meant Georges Rouault. How did I get those two mixed up?

>> No.4242765

>>4242728
>>No beards
>Disgusting

well i did say "goofy looking"

>> No.4242772

>>4242764
But... but... that's stupid.

>> No.4242778

>>4242764
>>4242772
They must have mixed up two book covers.
That one looks like a Hardy Boys story.

>> No.4242784

>>4242778

It's not a mix-up, it's just bad design. It comes from a book collection geared toward young boys. So they put a bunch of young boys on the cover.

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>>4241968
>>4241966
I have this one, but in red, it's pretty.

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>>4242754
Chris Ware 2005, but that Moby Dick is real

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>>4242724
I'll raise you one lewder.

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>>4242786
But what is it?

>> No.4242812

>>4242802
The Legend of J'onn J'onzz

>> No.4242836
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Le Morte D'Arthur illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley is the most beautiful book I've ever seen. The Winchester manuscript is the superior textually, but the 1893 Beardsley edition is just straight fuckin' gorgeous. Original copies of the two volume set are impossibly pricey, but there's a good facsimile copy that's within reach.

>> No.4242838

>>4242698
Yeah, the cover blows on that edition, but the novel itself is out of this world!

>> No.4242839
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will still never get over his perf book covers.

>> No.4242850

>>4242754
There's always that one asshole in a thread who has to give his shallow, laconic opinion about all the posts preceding his.

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>> No.4242898

>>4242800
Is that a pigtail or pubic hair and spread pussy lips?
I have an erection.

>> No.4242915

>>4242724
Brilliant

>> No.4242920

>>4242000
Is that supposed to be Fate/Stay Night?

>> No.4242955

Do you prefer a nice fancy cover like this, or a piece of art? I kinda like these covers for classics and art for modern/genre stuff.

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>>4242955
Forgot my picture

>> No.4243384
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>>4242920
A scene from LotR

>> No.4243398

>>4242836
>>4242866

That is art. I love old books that are richly illustrated

>> No.4243406

>>4243398
>liking picture books
pleb

>> No.4243432

Worst: Every WoT cover.

>> No.4243437

>>4242754
JR was during the 70s.

>> No.4243478
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harry clarke illustrations for poe's short stories aswell as goethe's faust (pic related).

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>> No.4243610
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Sadly no scan or photograph can ever do justice to the actual book.

http://www.cetteadressecomportecinquantesignes.com/Luigi.Serafini.-.Codex.Seraphinianus.pdf

>> No.4243973

>>4242486
Damn, that is really beautiful
>>4243559
definitely my favorites in the thread

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>> No.4244030
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Gustave Doré up in this bitch

>> No.4245628
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>>4242800
Lolita's pigtail or her moms post pubescent crotch... With a bow-tie?

>>4243406
Philistine

>>4244030
I have been posting samples form picture books. Dore too >>4241961
Perhaps I'm on ignore.

>> No.4245650
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There's an edition of Death in Venice with some interesting woodcut pieces

Also for anyone interested in checking out book illustrations I highly recommended visiting archival sites. There are tons of old books with nice illustrations that can be downloaded for free in decent quality.

>> No.4245665
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This is a nice cover.

Is it a good book?

>> No.4245667
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My first exposure to his dialogue.

>> No.4245668
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>> No.4245682
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I don't think I'll ever get this, but I liked the cover a lot.

>> No.4245686
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>>4245682
Same here.

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>> No.4245696
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>> No.4245697

I do some freelance illustrations. I did 5 album covers, but I just now got a job for a book cover close from happening. Give me something to think, /lit/.

What attracts you in a cover? What is good about them? Is there something you hate in a cover?

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>> No.4245711
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>>4245697
Its nice when a cover has a simple in-reference. Like this. Also these movie posters are cool

http://www.splashnology.com/article/100-minimal-movie-posters/7082/

May have been done to death by now though

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>>4245697
They'll usually tell you it needs to catch the eye. Have something to do with the book.

Beyond the case by case basis, I can only talk to my personal taste for classic/art nouveau/surrealism/pop-surrealism

>> No.4245740

>>4245668
yo nigga that penguin looks freaked the fuck out he like: 'o u aint bout to be playin god in my house, nigga!!!!'

>> No.4245742

>>4245688
>kafka
>motif of imprisonment
>not the obvious motif of paternal conflict
Do you even read?

>> No.4246231

>>4245696

lel

>> No.4246406
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>>4241966
The Stranger FTW.

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>>4245668

[______]

[____]

>> No.4246421

>>4245711
I'm sure you are being ironic.

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>>4241704

>> No.4246430

>>4242754

Way to mass quote. Do you know how frustrating it is to mouseover a bunch of reply corners and see your stupid post over and over again? Even on /b/ this is unacceptable.

>>4242850

Pretty much this.

>> No.4246432
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i used to really enjoy the illustrations by Jan Pienkowski in many of the childrens books by Joan Aiken

>> No.4246437
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Step aside, I've got this.

>> No.4246447

>>4245702
Jean Leone Gerome.
>Dat orientalism
>Dem nudes.

>> No.4246541

>>4245697
>>4245711
>Its nice when a cover has a simple in-reference. Like this.
the only problem with this line of thinking is that it only means something to the audience a book already has. Any book publisher will tell you they are trying to sell books to as many new people as they can- in references accomplish very little in that regard. And you're right, 'minimalist' movie posters and the like are way played out- mostly because 98 percent of them are garbage. I can think of only a few people who do them well. Most folks just drop an arbitrary set piece in the center of the composition and call it a day. How does that suit the material in the slightest?

The problem with so much of that sort of work is that it thinks it's much smarter than it really is. The pieces that result are less about the source material than they are about showing off how smart the artist is. Good for you, you churned out fifty posters and they're all ugly and they all look the same.

You can still do really good work in the 'minimal' or graphic vein, but, I think at least, that it should encapsulate some key element of the story, or some theme, or whatever. What is the book actually about?

Good book covers are also eye catching. They don't blend in with the rest. They should jump off the shelf and scream 'By Me! By Me!' Achieving this with class can be difficult.

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