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Golden Boys Book Cover
By Mead Schaeffer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
"
Men depicted in a winter scene, used as a book cover for Golden Boys.
Category
1920s Antique Book Covers
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Wolves of the Dawn" Book Cover
By Louis S. Glanzman
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Dawn" Book Cover by William Sarabande
Category
Mid-19th Century Antique Book Covers
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Persian Paint Lacquered Book Cover, 19th Century
Located in Savannah, GA
A Persian paint decorated, lacquered and gilt book cover inset in silk wrapped mat with gilt frame
Category
19th Century Persian Antique Book Covers
Materials
Silk, Paint
14thC Tibetan Book Cover. Superb example- Unique Early Tibet Relic
Located in Ukiah, CA
14thC Tibetan Book Cover. Superb example. Evidence of likely having been turned into a shelf or
Category
15th Century and Earlier Tibetan Antique Book Covers
Materials
Wood
Rambles in the Wye Valley, Original Artwork for Book Cover, Railway Art
By Gwynn
Located in London, GB
original artwork was used as the book cover for Hugh E. Page's 'Rambles in the Wye Valley' (1951). The Wye
Category
Early 20th Century Art Deco Antique Book Covers
Materials
Gouache
In Evening Bells, Front Book Cover
By Edmund Ward
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Category
1920s Antique Book Covers
Materials
Oil, Board
In Evening Bells, Back Book Cover
By Edmund Ward
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1923
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions 24.50" x 25.50"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Category
1920s Antique Book Covers
Materials
Board, Oil
Tiffany & Co. Sterling Silver & Enamel Match Book Cover with 'MAS' Monogram
By Tiffany & Co.
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine signed match book cover with enamel decoration.
By Tiffany & Co.
In sterling silver.
With
Category
Early 20th Century Art Deco Antique Book Covers
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Antique 19th Century Russian Solid Silver, Velvet & Leather Book Cover c.1890
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Antique 19th Century Russian solid silver book cover, featuring velvet and leather. The front is
Category
19th Century Russian Other Antique Book Covers
Materials
Silver
Painted Wood Tavolette Book Cover Binding The Biccherna Aesthetic Siena Tuscany
By Icilio Federico Joni
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Icilio Federico Joni.
Italian ( b.1866 - d.1946 ).
Painted Gesso, Gilt & Wood Tavolette Book Cover
Category
Late 19th Century Renaissance Antique Book Covers
Materials
Gesso, Oil, Wood Panel
Painted Wood Tavolette Book Cover Binding The Biccherna Aesthetic Siena Tuscany
By Icilio Federico Joni
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Icilio Federico Joni.
Italian ( b.1866 - d.1946 ).
Painted Gesso, Gilt & Wood Tavolette Book Cover
Category
Late 19th Century Renaissance Antique Book Covers
Materials
Gesso, Oil, Tempera, Wood Panel
"Cubist Goblet, Rose & Lute", Rare Art Deco Book Cover by Reinoso for Printemps
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A gorgeous example of Cubist-Art Deco design, this 19th century book was given a new cover and end
Category
1920s French Art Deco Antique Book Covers
Materials
Paper
$600 Sale Price
20% Off
Girls Reading in the Grass, Original book cover for "A Little Maid of Virginia"
By Sarah S. Stilwell Weber
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Sarah Stilwell Weber's original cover illustration for Alice Turner Curtis's A Little Maid of
Category
1920s Antique Book Covers
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique Grand Tour Souvenir Dactyl Library Book 36 Plaster Casts Rome 1840-50
Located in Munich, DE
corresponding handwritten legends on the insides of both book covers.
Category
1840s Italian Victorian Antique Book Covers
Materials
Plaster, Paper
The Duel, Cover for Kuppenheimer Style Book, Fall / Winter 1910-1911
By Frank Xavier Leyendecker
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original Kuppenheimer Style Book Cover, Fall / Winter 1910-1911 edition
For the Fall/Winter 1910
Category
1910s Antique Book Covers
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Nepalese Carved and Painted Buddhist Manuscript Cover, 15th Century
Located in Austin, TX
A fine and unusual wooden book or manuscript cover with a carved exterior and painted interior
Category
15th Century and Earlier Nepalese Tibetan Antique Book Covers
Materials
Wood
Antique Hand Carved Early 20th Century Black Forest Nutcracker With Book
Located in San Diego, CA
! The book cover and sleeve have minor imperfections but the pages are in excellent condition. #9005
Category
Early 20th Century German Black Forest Antique Book Covers
Materials
Wood
English 19th Century Victorian Period Paper Hat Box with Floral Décor
Located in Atlanta, GA
to reveal a book covered interior. An excellent decorative addition to any bedroom!
Category
19th Century English Victorian Antique Book Covers
Materials
Paper
Galerie Shabab Collection Early 20th Century Persian Tabriz Accent Carpet
Located in New York, NY
This well-woven NW Persian city carpet shows the classic “book cover” medallion and corners layout
Category
Early 20th Century Persian Tabriz Antique Book Covers
Materials
Wool
Antique Tabriz Carpet, Bookcover Field
Located in New York, NY
The rusty-brown layered 'book cover' field of this NW Persian town workshop carpet displays a dense
Category
Early 20th Century Persian Tabriz Antique Book Covers
Materials
Wool
Antique Burmese Buddhist Kammavaca Manuscript with Case
Located in Point Richmond, CA
and lacquer book covers. Wood coated with lacquer, twelve lines to each leaf written in Pali script in
Category
Mid-19th Century Burmese Other Antique Book Covers
Materials
Gold Leaf
Antique Tabriz Haji Jalili Rug 3'4'' x 5'2''
Located in New York, NY
the antique "Hajji Jalili" manner with a "book cover" layout, abrashed coral open subfield, multi
Category
Late 19th Century Persian Antique Book Covers
Materials
Wool, Cotton
$2,320 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Haji Jalili Tabriz Rug 4'3'' x 6'2''
Located in New York, NY
Antique Haji Jalili Tabriz Rug 4'3'' x 6'2''. This “book-cover” patterned Tabriz scatter shows a
Category
Late 19th Century Persian Antique Book Covers
Materials
Wool, Cotton
$5,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Galerie Shabab Collection Early 20th Century Persian Tabriz Accent Rug
Located in New York, NY
give a “book cover” look to the whole. The red border features many-petalled blue rosettes among a
Category
Early 20th Century Persian Tabriz Antique Book Covers
Materials
Wool
Epicuro - Original China Ink by Gabriele Galantara - Early Century
By Gabriele Galantara
Located in Roma, IT
Epicuro is an original drawing in china ink realized as study for a book cover by Gabriele
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Antique Book Covers
Materials
Ink
19th Century N. Indian Amritsar Carpet ( 18'10" x 20'10" - 575 x 635 )
Located in New York, NY
ascending palmettes and lancet curved leavers of varying sizes and complexities in a “book-cover” shaped
Category
1880s Indian Agra Antique Book Covers
Materials
Wool
Hippolyte Heizler, Iconic Bronze Sculpture of Two Dogs Chasing a Hare, 19th Cent
By Hippolyte Heizler
Located in Bochum, NRW
the book cover and on page 37.
Category
1860s French Louis Philippe Antique Book Covers
Materials
Bronze
Antique Book Grandeur Des Romains, Montesquieu, French Language, Mid Victorian
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
Montesquieu. First published in 1734, and further revised in 1748 by Montesquieu, the book covers the period
Category
Mid-19th Century European Victorian Antique Book Covers
Materials
Paper
Early 20th Century Young Golfer Figurative
By Margaret Neilson
Located in Soquel, CA
The Century magazines. Armstrong was an important woman book cover designer and with writer J.J
Category
1920s Realist Antique Book Covers
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Antique Doroksh Rug 12' x 15'6''
Located in New York, NY
style, the abrashed rusty red madder open field in the general "book cover" style, is centred by a tall
Category
1920s Persian Antique Book Covers
Materials
Wool, Cotton
$5,200 Sale Price
76% Off
The Faithful Companion
By Sidney Harry Riesenberg
Located in New York, NY
illustrations for book covers, magazines, and for oil paintings of diverse subjects. He retired from his
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Antique Book Covers
Materials
Canvas, Oil
La Mer (The Sea) - Original Watercolor and China Ink by Paul Chack
Located in Roma, IT
scenery of sea, skillfully depicted by soft strokes through congruous colors, as a book cover, the name of
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Antique Book Covers
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
"South Seas Stories", Bold Art Deco Maquette for Jack London Collection, 1920s
Located in Philadelphia, PA
maquette for a book cover was painted in the late 1920s by a promising artist -- Helene Haase -- for a
Category
1920s American Art Deco Antique Book Covers
Materials
Paint
$2,240 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Mohtashem Kashan Rug
Located in Katonah, NY
Concentric center medallions atop a covered field with classic book cover field overlays loosely
Category
1920s Persian Kashan Antique Book Covers
Materials
Wool, Cotton
$26,180
FISCHEL. Modes and Manners of the Nineteenth Century. IN COSWAY BINDINGS !
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
book illuminator known for her miniature portraits on book covers and fore-edge paintings. She worked
Category
Early 1900s British Antique Book Covers
Materials
Leather
Early 20th Century Art Nouveau Pedestals, style Jacques Gruber, Carved Mahogany
Located in Vigonza, Padua
some decorations for Daum, some furniture for Majorelle and book covers for René Wiener.
In 1897, he
Category
1920s French Art Nouveau Antique Book Covers
Materials
Mahogany
Aleksandr Rodchenko Constructivist Photograph Gelatin silver print 1936
By Lucia Moholy-Nagy, Man Ray, László Moholy-Nagy
Located in Brussels, Brussels
striking propaganda posters and book covers, collaborating closely with poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. His work
Category
Early 20th Century Swedish Bauhaus Antique Book Covers
Materials
Paper
$936 Sale Price
20% Off
Victorian Daily Prayer Book in Hebrew "Tephilath of Israel" w/ Carved Bone Cover
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Antique prayer book in Hebrew ("Tephilath Israel" meaning "Prayer of Israel") published in Vienna
Category
1890s Austrian Late Victorian Antique Book Covers
Materials
Brass
$405 Sale Price
40% Off
Art Nouveau "Fiammiferi Senza Fosforo" original poster by Aldolfo Hohenstein
By Adolfo Hohenstein
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Liberty movement—Italy’s take on Art Nouveau.
Beyond posters, Hohenstein designed book covers, set
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Antique Book Covers
Materials
Lithograph
Secessionist Pair of panels Georg Klimt ca. 1900 Patinated Copper Art Nouveau
By Georg Klimt
Located in Klosterneuburg, AT
everyday objects such as book covers, furniture applications and clock hands, his true genius is revealed
Category
Early 20th Century Austrian Art Nouveau Antique Book Covers
Materials
Copper
$29,830 Sale Price
20% Off
Art Nouveau "Madame Butterfly" original poster by Aldolfo Hohenstein
By Adolfo Hohenstein
Located in Palm Beach, FL
movement—Italy’s take on Art Nouveau.
Beyond posters, Hohenstein designed book covers, set decorations
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Antique Book Covers
Materials
Lithograph
Viennese pair of Jugendstil panels "Demeter & Dionysos" by Georg Klimt ca. 1900
By Georg Klimt
Located in Klosterneuburg, AT
von Stuck and others.
While his works also include everyday objects such as book covers, furniture
Category
Early 1900s Austrian Jugendstil Antique Book Covers
Materials
Silver Plate, Copper
$24,306 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Senneh Kilim Senna Rug Wool Caucasia Sine Persian Kurdish Carpet
Located in Tokyo, JP
motif that emulated Safavid medallion book cover designs and the popular nineteenth-century Boteh
Category
Early 20th Century Caucasian Kilim Antique Book Covers
Materials
Wool, Natural Fiber
$5,440 Sale Price
20% Off
SYMONDS. Wine, Women, and Song. LIMITED TO 50 COPIES IN A FINE COSWAY BINDING !
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
, 1849-1940), a British book illuminator known for her miniature portraits on book covers and fore-edge
Category
1880s British Antique Book Covers
Materials
Leather
Art Deco Watercolor 1918, By Otto Lendecke Decorated Salon Helena Rubinstein
Located in Eltville am Rhein, DE
book covers for Die griechische Tänzerin (The Greek Dancer) by Arthur Schnitzler and Dolores by J. V
Category
1910s Art Deco Antique Book Covers
Materials
Watercolor
Equestrian Book, Modern Practical Farriery
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
treat a horse in health and disease, etc. The book also covers the diseases and management of cattle
Category
1890s British Sporting Art Antique Book Covers
Materials
Paper
Large Painting Of Anna Maria Borghese by Vittorio Matteo Corcos
Located in Norwood, NJ
, posters, and book covers. In 1880, the artist established himself in the Parisian art scene, falling into
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Antique Book Covers
Materials
Gold Leaf
English Folk Art Book Box
Located in Chicago, IL
A bit of English whimsy rendered in oak: this 20th-century box takes the form of a book, complete
Category
Early 20th Century American Folk Art Antique Book Covers
Materials
Oak
Uxbridge original vintage poster by Edward McKnight Kauffer
By Edward McKnight Kauffer
Located in London, GB
, the Great Western Railway and other commercial clients, and also illustrated books and book covers
Category
1910s Antique Book Covers
Materials
Lithograph
Secessionist panel "The source" Georg Klimt ca. 1900
By Georg Klimt
Located in Klosterneuburg, AT
everyday objects such as book covers, furniture applications and clock hands, his true genius is revealed
Category
Early 20th Century Austrian Art Nouveau Antique Book Covers
Materials
Copper
$28,725 Sale Price
35% Off
Secessionist Pair of panels "Demeter" Georg Klimt ca. 1900 Art Nouveau
By Georg Klimt
Located in Klosterneuburg, AT
include everyday objects such as book covers, furniture applications and clock hands, his true genius is
Category
Early 20th Century Austrian Art Nouveau Antique Book Covers
Materials
Copper
$26,930 Sale Price
35% Off
London Underground Summertime original vintage poster by Edward McKnight Kauffer
By Edward McKnight Kauffer
Located in London, GB
commercial clients, and also illustrated books and book covers. Later he also became interested in textiles
Category
1920s Antique Book Covers
Materials
Lithograph
Antique French Metal Book-Shaped Box
Located in High Point, NC
the texture of oak. The front cover of the book lifts apart to reveal a shallow compartment, perfect
Category
19th Century French French Provincial Antique Book Covers
Materials
Metal
$1,116 Sale Price
30% Off
Antique Derby Porcelain Figurine of William Shakespeare Model No. 305
By Derby
Located in Philadelphia, PA
.
Depicting a Shakespeare that leans onto a book-covered plinth with his hand supporting his chin. His other
Category
Early 19th Century Regency Antique Book Covers
Materials
Porcelain
Rowing Figure in an Eerie Landscape, 1929
Located in Stockholm, SE
poster competition, he launched a successful career in illustration, designing book covers and film
Category
1920s Symbolist Antique Book Covers
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Early 19th Century German Silver Book Binding
Located in New York, NY
Handmade German silver book binding, circa 1804.
Both covers pierced and chased with foliate
Category
Early 1800s German Antique Book Covers
Materials
Silver
Antique Grand Tour Faux Book of Intaglios by Pietro Paoletti
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
deep blue background between two handsome covers.
The faux book spine reads 'Pompeo Mastrozzi' and
Category
Early 19th Century Italian Grand Tour Antique Book Covers
Materials
Plaster
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