The perfect gift for every book lover: 50 beautifully designed books May 24 2021
So how did we go about curating this collection of impactful typographic and lettering book cover designs?
Well, by following a simple but tedious two- step process.
First we studied several respected '100 books to read' type compilations. Specifically - the original 2003 BBC Big Read, The Guardian's 100 greatest novels all time, Time Magazine's All Time 100, Amazon’s 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime, Project Gutenberg's Top 100, and finally Harvard's Top 100 must reads.
Then we sieved through cover after cover from the above master list,
with a trained hawk eye to pick out only the most striking book jacket designs. Many of them designed under the direction of Penguin Book's long standing art & creative director - Paul Buckley.
Thus ensuring each of the book cover editions you see below - will be both - equally sought after to read, as they are to collect, by any self-respecting bibliophile.
Alternatively you could gift wrap the bookworm in question something from our literary posters ( like the Lolita poster below), or from our website specialising in inspirational typographic art.
Happy browsing!
Image: Crime and Punishment - hand lettering and illustration book cover
Image: 1984 -Minimalist 'Censored' typographic book cover
Image: Charlie and the chocolate factory- custom lettering and illustration book cover
Image: Atlas Shrugged- rare, typographic leather bound book cover
Image: Dracula- hand lettering book cover
Image: The Scarlett letter- hand lettering and typography book cover
Image: Les Miserables- hand lettering and illustration book cover
mage: James and the giant peach- hand lettering and illustration book design
mage: Alice in Wonderland- hand lettering and illustrations by Floor Rieder book design
Image: A heartbreaking work of staggering genius- typographic book cover
Image: The stranger- minimalist typographic book cover
Image: The Canterbury Tales- rare, typographic leather bound book cover, illustrated by Eric Gill.
mage: Peter Pan- chalk hand lettering and illustration book design
Image: Lolita- typographic book cover
Image: Lord of the flies- hand lettering and illustration book cover
Image: King, Queen, Knave- typography and illustration book cover
Image: The Bronte sisters trilogy- typography and illustration book cover
Image: The catcher in the rye- custom lettering book cover
Image: The handmaid's tale - typography and illustration book cover
Image: The three musketeers- hand lettering and illustration book cover
Image: White noise- hand lettering and illustration book cover
Image: The Great Gatsby- custom lettering art deco book cover
Image: Tender is the night- custom lettering art deco book cover
Image: A portrait of the artist as a young man- hand lettering book cover from the 'Drop Cap Series'.
Image: Madame Bovary - hand lettering book cover from the 'Drop Cap Series'.
Image: Jane Eyre- hand lettering book cover from the 'Drop Cap Series'.
Image: Middle March- hand lettering book cover from the 'Drop Cap Series'.
Image: Pride and Prejuidice- hand lettering book cover from the 'Drop Cap Series'.
Image: Siddhartha- hand lettering book cover from the 'Drop Cap Series'.
Image: Macbeth- typography and illustration book cover design
Image: Othello- typography and illustration book cover design
Image: Hamlet- typography and illustration book cover design
Image: King Lear- typography and illustration book cover design
Image: Frankenstein- hand lettering and illustration book design
mage: Emma- embroidery and illustration book design
Image: Fear of flying- hand lettering and illustration book design
Image: Heart of Darkness- hand lettering and illustration book design
Image: Little Women- hand lettering and illustration book cover
Image: Lady Chatterley's lover- hand lettering and illustration book design
Image: Philosophy in the boudoir- hand lettering and illustration book design
Image: One flew over the cuckoo's nest- hand lettering and illustration book design
Image: Moby Dick- typography and illustration book design
Image: The adventure's of Huckleberry Finn-
typography and illustration book design
Image: The broom of the system- hand lettering and illustration book design
Image: Canterbury Tales- hand lettering and illustration book design
Image: The New York Trilogy- custom lettering and illustration book design
Image: Waiting for the barbarians- custom and illustration book design
mage: Gravity's Rainbow- typography and illustration book design
mage: Metamorphosis and other stories- lettering and illustration book design
mage: The Wizard of Oz- embroidery and illustration book design
mage: Black Beauty-
embroidery and illustration book design
mage: Candide- hand lettering and illustration book design
Image: Money. A novel - hand lettering and illustration book design
Alternatively you could gift something from our literary posters collection, like the Mrs Dalloway one featured above, or from our website specialising in inspirational typographic art.
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