The inestimable Will of
A Journey Round My Skull kindly pointed me in the direction of a new publishing venture co-headed by
David Pearson, often discussed on this blog. It's called White's Books, and the idea behind it is to produce beautiful hardback editions of established classics. Pearson does the typesetting himself, and invites some of his favourite designers to do the covers and endpapers. An
interview at the 'Creative Review' blog discusses the ideas behind the range and the designs in more depth, so here we'll just gawk at the books.
First, here's Pearson's own cover for Shakespeare's collected poetry.
Here is Petra Börner's
Jane Eyre. Börner was discussed on this blog earlier on
here.
This is Stanley Donwood's
Treasure Island, a lithographic print similar to his huge '
London Views' work detailing the destruction of England's capital by flood and fire. Some of you may also know Donwood through his design work for
Radiohead.
The last of the initial White's offerings is
Joe McLaren on Dickens.
