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How a 1906 chapter describes designing a commercial book cover, from brief to brass die
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A documentary note on the Cover Designing chapter of The Building of a Book (1906), for book and cover designers and anyone planning a cover. It summarises the stages the chapter describes and ends with an untested checklist for an invented book. It is based on one chapter, is not a modern print guide and was not run.
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How a 1906 chapter describes designing a commercial book cover, from brief to brass die
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A documentary note on the Cover Designing chapter of The Building of a Book (1906), for book and cover designers and anyone planning a cover. It summarises the stages the chapter describes and ends with an untested checklist for an invented book. It is based on one chapter, is not a modern print guide and was not run.
Useful starting points
- The chapter says the title should be the first thing the eye reaches, with everything else subordinate to it.
- Gold is described as the dearest way to reproduce a cover, so the chapter says to limit it to title lines or one small area.
- Agree the cover type, colour count, exact dimensions and binding material with the publisher before designing.
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