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Margaret Neilson Armstrong (1867–1944) was a 19th and early 20th-century American book cover designer, illustrator, and author. She is best known for her book covers influenced by Art Nouveau. She also wrote and illustrated the first comprehensive guide to wildflowers of the American west, Field Book of Western Wild Flowers (1915). In later ...
Notable works by Marsh include Time magazine covers, neo-surreal cover paintings for paperback reprints of Ross Macdonald books, cover art for all of the studio albums released by the English band Talk Talk, [1] and his gatefold artwork for Jamiroquai's chart-topping debut album, Emergency on Planet Earth, in 1993.
Like a perfectly-ripe avocado or a high fantasy novel, good things take time. And while our patience is usually rewarded (with a batch of fresh guacamole or a gripping read), sometimes it’s just ...
The posing, state of dress, and appearance of the people on the clinch cover is informed by the politics of the era, such as the women's liberation movement. [ 2 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Though the clinch cover usually features a white, heterosexual couple, the style has been used for other book pairings as well.
Artur Ernesto Teixeira de Vasconcelos Barbosa (6 March 1908 – 5 October 1995 [1]) was an artist best known for his distinctive cover illustrations for Georgette Heyer and George MacDonald Fraser's The Flashman Papers novels, which he produced for 17 and 25 years respectively. [1]
The size of a book is generally measured by the height against the width of a leaf, or sometimes the height and width of its cover. [2] A series of terms is commonly used by libraries and publishers for the general sizes of modern books, ranging from folio (the largest), to quarto (smaller) and octavo (still smaller).
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Leo Dillon (March 2, 1933 – May 26, 2012) and Diane Dillon (née Sorber; born March 13, 1933) were American illustrators of children's books and adult paperback book and magazine covers. One obituary of Leo called the work of the husband-and-wife team "a seamless amalgam of both their hands". [ 3 ]