Quite how this will translate to a book design I do not know, but I'm intrigued to find out.
As a follow-up to the last post, here are a few more of the hardback classics covers, not terribly well scanned.
Again, I'm assuming these are the work of Coralie Bickford-Smith, as she designed the earlier books in this set. There are also several similar books from Penguin India in a similar vein, all great Eastern religious works, with (I assume) a different deigner but a similar approach.
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I own a few of those hardback penguins (they are sold in the bargain section in Canadian bookstores) and while they are indeed very beautiful, I must add that unfortunately I found they offer an awkward reading experience because the pages and binding are so stiff... But then I am very picky about that sort of thing!
I'll use that as an excuse to resist buying them. So far I don't own any, as they keep pitting out books I already own as paperbacks, but sometimes I see them in a shop and feel my resistance fading...
"pUtting out", I mean to say.
I saw Coralie Bickford-Smith speaking at a conference on cover design last year. I love her work. See it all at www.cb-smith.com
I envy you! I was lucky enough to be able to interview her last year, though: http://causticcovercritic.blogspot.com/2009/02/coralies-caustic-cover-critic.html
I really want Jane Austen's Emma in the Penguin hardback. It has Regency chairs embossed on the cover. I like the scissors and the Alcott cover, too.
Cool post..
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