An Ex Libris by Miro Parizek, 1937
☛ Frederikshavn Digital Exlibris Museum Project: bookplate, woodcut by Miro Parizek, Czechoslovakia, 1937, 91mm x 90mm, owner unknown. The “Digital Exlibris Museum Project” came to life in 2010 at the initiative of the Frederikshavn Kunstmuseum & Exlibrissamling, the only Scandinavian museum –and one of the few in Europe– dedicated to the art of bookplates or […]
“Fall Library” by Tom Gauld, 2014
☛ The New Yorker: “Fall Library”, cover illustration by Tom Gauld, October 20th, 2014. The same image on the artist’s blog. The New Yorker website provides this additional detail about how the illustration came to be: When Tom Gauld sent the first sketch for this week’s cover, “Fall Library,” we discussed a variant where the […]
Le bibliophile, Félix Edouard Vallotton, 1911
☛ “Le Bibliophile” by Félix Edouard Vallotton, woodcut, 8.87 x 7 in. (22,5 x 17,8 cm.), 1911. Image retrieved from Zeno.org. This image illustrates the cover of the French translation of Alberto Manguel’s The Library at Night (La Bibliothèque, la nuit, trans. Christine Le Boeuf, Paris: Actes Sud). Something in this illustration –maybe the heavy […]
“Love Stories” by Joost Swarte, 2014
☛ The New Yorker: “Love Stories”, cover art by Joost Swarte, June 9 & 16, 2014. © Condé Nast. “Love Stories” illustrates the theme for The New Yorker’s 2014 Summer Fiction issue. Joost Swarte is a Dutch illustrator, graphic designer and cartoonist. This is not the first cover he draws for The New Yorker: Condé […]
