#book covers*

[hussyknee]

The book covers of Regency romance novels are an absolute crime, but in Cecilia Grant's case they're nothing short of absurd. You could maybe excuse some of these half dressed gym bros in breeches cradling heroines either swathed in satin sheets or off-the-rack prom dresses if the contents are some kind escapist erotica in a setting that could pass as the Regency era on a porn set, à la Bridgerton. But when it's something like Grant's Blackshear Family novels, the covers go from ordinary crime to war crime.

Grant's writing is beautiful, very introspective, slightly antiquarian and almost literary. The Blackshear novels are very touching mediations on love and desire and social injustice within the dictates of respectability and vulnerability of the landed gentry, not the aristocracy, travelling everywhere from the tenant homes and farms of country estates to the gambling hells of London to field hospitals crammed with the dead and dying of the Battle of Quatre Bras. The sex scenes are well done, but they're slower burn than a beeswax candle and definitely not the point of the stories at all. They're about how people in history lived and loved.

The covers for the books?

What, I say, the fucketh?

The treatment of this entire genre and its writers by the publishing industry is a study in misogynistic contempt. It doesn't matter whether they're queer or het, or fantasy or mystery or historical or all of them. Anything tarred with the brush of romance and a feminine readership is considered "chic lit" and therefore not worthy of proper editing or halfway respectful or even relevant covers, much less critical recognition.

#anti bridgerton #misogyny #regency romance #cecilia grant #books #publishing #historical romance #historical fiction #romance fiction #blackshear family #bad book covers #book covers #knee of huss #reading

[blackwoodbanshee]

Gothic Heroine Book Cover

#gothic heroine #gothic #books #book covers #haunted #Found on pinterest

[mydaylight]

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson: English covers

#we have always lived in the castle #shirley jackson #book covers #book #literature #I own the first one and I love it #almost gives you a claustrophobic feeling #but most of these slap so hard #I'm obsessed with the second one and Merricat wearing the table cloth #and the design of the Blackwood gate #the first on the third row was the original 1962 edition

[anatomicalmartyr]

Book bindings for various editions of Charles Baudelaire’s “Les Fleurs du mal”

#books #les fleurs du mal #book covers #decadent art #charles baudelaire #antique books #book bindings #art #literature #art noveau #the flowers of evil #old books #decadent movement #my posts #hannibalcore #faves

[happyheidi]

gothic garden entomology vintage book covers

#the colors!! the illustrations! #I need these in my life #cottagecore #books #book covers #vintage aesthetic #entomology #butterflies #insects #garden #nature #naturecore #flowers #flowercore #light academia aesthetic #light academism #dark cottagecore #dark green aesthetic #gothic #old books #classic academia #dark academia books #bees #bee keeping #dead poets society #meadow

[cozy-brew]

Very witchy vibes :)

Source: Instagram

#fairy core #fairytalecore #fairy aesthetic #fairycore #fairy #fae #witchcore #witchcraft #books #book covers #books and libraries #booklr #books & libraries #books and reading #bookblr #book aesthetic

[sovietpostcards]

Book covers illustrated by Yevgeny Migunov (1960s-70s)

#books #book covers #book illustration #1960s #1970s #ussr #soviet #russia

[illustration-alcove]

Polina Graf’s illustrated book cover for the Russian edition of Terry Pratchett’s and Neil Gaiman’s Good Omens.

#polina graf #Terry Pratchett #neil gaiman #good omens #book covers #british literature

[michaelmoonsbookshop]

Time flies when you’re having fun

#old #books #old bookshop #bibliophile #old books #michael moon's bookshop #antiquarian #book covers #antique books #michaelmoonsbookshop #Moonsbookshop #findingnewhomesforoldbookssince1970 #rare books #whitehaven

[nobrashfestivity]

Unknown, Covers for Satomi Hakkenden, a popular novel from the Edo period part two

scans from ndl.go.jp/

#illustration #dogs #books #japanese art #set #book covers #edo period

[thefugitivesaint]

''The Second Bedside Book of Strange Stories'', 1976 Source 'Tis almost "spooky season" so let the early festivities begin.

#Book dust covers #book cover art #horror anthologies #skulls #book covers #cover art #horror fiction

[arhada]

Covers of the korean translation of Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea series

#earthsea #ursula k. le guin #book covers #covers #uploads #a wizard of earthsea #the tombs of atuan #the farthest shore #tehanu #tales from earthsea #the other wind

[goliathsmother]

Hey there, I've had a lot of time to spare so I finally took it on me to create english dust jackets for the Captive Prince trilogy by C.S. Pacat with the polish Print versions! (For ya'll to use!)

A big thanks to @laurents-laces for providing the textless edit! And credit to @kingdamcn because they inspired the back of it with the quotes they picked for their own versions. The original art is done by littleulvar on twitter.

I feel like since @laurents-laces shared their textless versions, it's only right I share the whole jackets so that anyone can use them!

Below I'll put the printable pngs, I recommend using the one with the white edge (because printing companies have disappointed me) and cut them on your own (they're a really tight fit so if you want to be save print them a little larger :))

The print size for the white edge ones that I used was 45cm x 25cm

(for the ones without edge it would be 45cm x 20,3cm but be careful! The best way would be measuring your own book)

(If somethings not working let me know!)

I made two versions, one with spine pattern (as you can see in the pictures) and one without for those who like it simpler, these patterns are also on the front and back flap

Have fun with them and finally add these long awaited versions to your shelf!

#Captive prince #prince's gambit #kings rising #captive prince trilogy #dust jacket #captive prince dust jacket #c.s. pacat #book #book covers #captive prince cover #laurent of vere #damen of akielos

[tranthedykentarius]

Alt covers of Gideon, Harrow, and Nona the ninth from illumicrate, along with a letter from the author!!

#tlt #the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #nona the ninth #book covers #fave #i fucking adore these covers #they're gorgeous #art #tamsyn muir #gtn #htn #ntn

[mydaylight]

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson: English covers

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#the haunting of hill house #shirley jackson #book covers #books #literature #I love most of these but #I am absolutely in love with the first cover with eleanor #unfortunately I own a penguin modern classics edition which is the most boring one ever #anyways this book that changed my life

[happyheidi]

beautiful book covers. (x)

#so gorgeous #I love them!! #that first one??? aaaaaa #cottagecore #light academia aesthetic #dark academia books #idk if it’s any use in tagging my posts atm but doing it anyway #cus it feels so weird not to #books #dark cottagecore #dark academia aesthetic #book covers #dead poets society #classic academia