Edward Gorey book covers

I found if I little in the way of a dedicated AutoUpdate of his work there a post on Edward Gorey who wrote although sources for his illustrations on the Web, are scattered, last year.

This has to some extent treated were courtesy of a wonderful flicker fixed Marci and Deth of Edward Gorey Book Covers of books that you have collected.

There are 69 covers, cover (if you'll excuse the expression) plays a number of topics, from John Bellairs stories to Shakespeare HG Wells war of the worlds (I randomly with a copy of the latter, interior illustrations of Gorey and have).

It is a large collection, presented with large versions of the images in most cases, of Gorey's wonderfully idiosyncratic figure and in many cases typography selected (or hand-drawn) of Gorey and.

[Via Tom Gauld Irene Gallo]

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