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“Yeats, the quarterly is best remembered for Beardsley’s covers over its first four issues (he was fired and then died of tuberculosis).”
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“Perhaps that’s why digital books have never appealed to me.”
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“In forever changing the nature of the book, Beardsley’s first edition cost five shillings, and the month was accidentally printed as “Aprtl.” “Advertisement is an absolute necessity of modern life,” Beardsley wrote in an 1894 essay for The New Review .”
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““I determined to do no less than to transform the world with Beauty” wrote William Morris, a crucial member of the British Arts and Crafts Movement which so influenced Beardsley, in his 1896 novel The Well at the World’s End.”
“A history of literature could be written by analyzing book cover trends.”
“Forks and spoons, tables and chairs, tea-pots and entire houses—books too—were all to be designed towards both practicality and beauty.”
“A 2013 Penguin Classics edition of Orwell’s classic opted to redact the title and author in thick, black lines, which depending on your personal inclination is either appropriately terrifying or too precious by half (future versions, if available, would do well just to feature a photograph of a Flock camera).”
“Cover design reminds us how much of the literary art is the sole purview of the author, but rather that it’s intensely collaborative.”
“Aesthetes though the Arts and Crafts movement may have been, a kind of democratic ethos inspired the movement (Wilde himself, associated with many of them, was a socialist after all).”
“In a digital world, analog covers still mean something, whether the Zen simplicity of Fitzcarraldo Edition’s blue-and-white covers (that have supplanted the long-ago supplanted Penguin Classics among the same sorts of readers) or the modernist uniformity of the New York Review of Books Classics.”
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“Figures like Morris (and Beardsley) championed a liberation of the pleasing, an egalitarian dissemination of the aesthetic.”
“New Critical theorizing be damned, to read the words on the page only to ignore the page itself can feel like not having read at all.”