#book design

[desimonewayland]

Album of seaweed specimens, in scallop shell binding, Great Britain, mid-19th century

Yale Center for British Art

[hometoursandotherstuff]

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon

A great book spine design.

[nemfrog]

The serpent consuming its tail, crowned with flame. Frontispiece by Melchior Lechter for Stefan George's, Der siebente Ring. The Seventh Ring. Berlin, 1907.

Internet Archive

[thebeautifulbook]

This protective book cover from about 1630 shows elaborate silver smith work over violet velvet.

[cloudy-rina]

Doing a quick little comparison of my old creature design 😋 lots of similarities and differences hehe I love them both 💖

[heaveninawildflower]

Book cover - Robert Montesquiou-Fézensac. 'Les chauves-souris, clairs-obscurs.'

Paris: Georges Richard, 1892.

Public Domain Review.

[ssavaart]

The publisher finally approved a cover painting!

They're going to add the text and possibly change the background... but here's what I came up with.

This is the FOURTH self portrait I did for the cover and the FIFTH cover I made (not to mention about a dozen thumbnails I sent them too).

I'll post the final cover once it's been sent to me.

This is gouache on 12x16 inch hot press paper.

Sending Big Hugs from the Hobbit Hole. ♥♥♥

Scott