An anonymous cover for ‘Pearson’s Magazine’ (original) (raw)

Cloth binding for ‘Pearson’s Magazine’

Anonymous designer

1899

Cloth binding

9½ x 6½ inches

This elegant display is perhaps the most distinctive cover design to appear on a periodical of the nineties. The sophisticated design projects the idea of the magazine as high-class entertainment and acts, once again, to popularize a progressive idiom by deploying it in the publishing mainstream.

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Photograph and text by Simon Cooke

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