An anonymous cover for Washington Irving’s ‘Rip van Winkle’ (original) (raw)

Cover for ‘Rip van Winkle’

Anonymous artist

1893

Cloth binding

7½ x 4¾ inches

The poppies appearing on this front cover amusingly point to the text’s theme – sleepiness. The narcolepsy is immediately contradicted, however, by the dynamism of the moving stems blown in the wind, natural process and change asserting itself in the face of somnambulant stasis.

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Photograph and text by Simon Cooke.

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