If you are a book lover or any other print ephemera collector or you simply like to admire pretty stuff from early days, you probably already know about ‘A Journey Around my Skull’. This blog offers the best book covers’ art selection I’ve seen online so far, as well as a very rich documentation of the work of good illustration masters from the old days. There you can find a wide range of subjects and themes covered: from specific countries traditional design ‘trends’ to covers designed by a particular designer/graphic artist, to ‘books bought at the average price of 1$50 with covers featuring artwork from Milton Glaser, Alvin Lustig, and so and so…’.
Also interesting is the kind of curatorial selection this blog presents of other blogs dedicated to all sorts of print ephemera related material.
Alvin Lustig, dust jacket for Monsieur Teste by Paul Valery (Knopf, 1947) via ‘A Journey Around My Skull’.
