The Art of
American Book Covers

Thomas Watson Ball ? Francis  Dana Leonora of the Yawmish New York: Harper & Brothers, 1897 This unsigned cover was issued by Harper whi...

In 1903 Thomas Watson Ball was hired as the Art Director for Colgate (until 1907), and his book cover lettering style follows the Art Nouvea...

  Here's a beautiful Art Deco publisher's binding that has an unusual dust jacket and presents many questions. One More River is th...

I just bought a few books from Ron Lieberman of THE FAMILY ALBUM, ABAA. He has posted many in albums that you can view on the Internet.  Eve...

Thanks to Prof. Ina Saltz of the City College of New York, who recognized Ball's lettering style on a copy of this book in the CCNY Lib...

   Whether or not you want to acquire them, you might enjoy seeing some publishers' bindings from my collection that are available for ...

We can deduce from the lettering style, panelization, publisher and date that T. W. Ball designed the cover of Janice Meredith , which incl...