Art Spam Favourites: March 2021

Okay, now if we’re all being brutally honest here. And I mean BRUTALLY, honest. We have all judged a book by its cover. And if you say you haven’t you’re a liar. It’s okay, I know, we’re terrible people. But ‘Yay!’ for those who work in publishing for making books look snazzy. They deserve all the awards. Although, that being said some of you lot make books look beautiful but the books themselves are… not great. But that’s not on you. You didn’t write them. So, with that being said I chose great books with great book covers. Because that’s the reason why I brought them. The book covers. I found later that they were great. So… Here’s the list!

1. Penguin Popular Classics edition of ‘Jane Eyre’ by Charlotte Brontë. The cover shows a detail from ‘Mending the Tapestry’ by Daniel Pasmore 1834

2. Wordsworth Library Collection ‘The Complete Fairytales, The Brothers Grimm’ Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm, Illustrated by Arthur Rackman.

3. The Pelican Shakespeare ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ art and design by © Manuja Waldia

4. Penguin English Library ‘A Room With A View’ by E. M. Forster. Cover by © Coralie Bickford-Smith.

5. Oxford’s World’s Classics The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. Cover Illustration detail from ‘Fight Between a Tiger and a Buffalo’ 1908 by Henri Rousseau

6. Vintage Classics ‘The End of The Affair’ by Graham Greene from a photograph by © Bert Hardy c/o Getty Images

7. Penguin Classics ‘African Myths of Origin’ selected by Stephen Belcher cover Ethiopian painted screen showing the story of the Queen of Sheba.

8. Vintage Classics ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ by Margaret Atwood. Cover Illustration © Norma Bar

9. Penguin Modern Classics ‘All My Sons’ by Arthur Miller © Mark Rennington/ Millennium Images 

10. The Walker Book of Classic Poetry and Poets selected by Michael Rosen and Illustrated by Paul Howard.