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Edward McKnight Kauffer (14 December 1890 – 22 October 1954) [1] was an American artist and graphic designer who lived for much of his life in the United Kingdom. He worked mainly in poster art , but was also active as a painter, book illustrator and theatre designer .
The dust jacket (sometimes book jacket, dust wrapper or dust cover) of a book is the detachable outer cover, usually made of paper and printed with text and illustrations. This outer cover has folded flaps that hold it to the front and back book covers ; these flaps may also double as bookmarks .
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Richard Wasey Chopping (14 April 1917 – 17 April 2008) [1] was a British illustrator and author best known for painting the dust jackets of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels starting with From Russia, with Love (1957).
A fact of Kermode's work, as yet undocumented and largely ignored, is the variety of birding covers and dust wrappers which he designed, some from linocut and many bearing the simple initial "K". [3] Sybil Andrews attended a lecture and demonstration by William Kermode on wood-block printing at Heatherley's School of Art, London in the 20s. [8]
Francis Cugat, also known as Francisco Coradal-Cougat [1] (May 24, 1893 – July 13, 1981), [2] was a painter and graphic designer whose most famous work was Celestial Eyes, the original 1925 dust jacket for The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. [3] From the mid-1940s he was a Technicolor consultant on more than 60 Hollywood films.
J. R. R. Tolkien accompanied his Middle-earth fantasy writings with a wide variety of non-narrative materials, including paintings and drawings, calligraphy, and maps.In his lifetime, some of his artworks were included in his novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings; others were used on the covers of different editions of these books, and later on the cover of The Silmarillion.
The back flap of the dust jacket is not shown in its entirety, so the lack of a copyright notice is not certain. However, at least one dust jacket featuring the same cover art, but from a different printing, is known to be published without a copyright notice. AbeBooks: image 1 (front cover) image 2 (back cover) image 3 (spine)