Cover to Ray Brassier's Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and Extinction (unknown artist/designer, 2007). (via Amazon)
Covers to Alasdair Gray's Lanark (Alasdair Gray, 1981). (via Leyden Gallery, Tate Modern, Waggish, & L.W. Currey Inc.)
"Science acquiesces, fatally, to the second law of thermodynamics—magic is free to be a conscientious objector."
—Thomas M. Disch, Camp Concentration (1968)
Illustrations from L Frank Baum’s Oz books (WW Denslow & John R Neill, 1900 to 1920). (via Wikipedia)
Covers to André Breton’s Nadja (various artists/designers, mid 20th century through early 21st century). (via Grove Atlantic, Amazon, The Brooklyn Rail, AbeBooks, Geeks, & Scribd)
Space is but a mode of our human Sense, so likewise Time; there IS no Space and no Time: WE are—we know not what;—light-sparkles floating in the ether of Deity!
Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, 1836
Cover to Novalis’ Hymns to the Night / Heinrich von Ofterdingen—Catedra Letras Universales Castilian Language Edition (unknown artist/designer, 2004).
(via Casa del Libros)
Cover to William James’ The Varieties of Religious Experience—Penguin Classics Edition (unknown artist/designer, 1982).
(via BrainPickings)
Cover to The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Browning—Cambridge Edition (unknown artist/desginer, 1895).
(via Amazon)
Cover to Lord Dunsany’s Carcassonne—John W Luce & Company Limited Edition (unknown artist/designer, 1920).
(via A Shiver in the Archives)
Cover to Léon Bloy’s Disagreeable Tales—Wakefield Press Edition (unknown designer/artist, 2015).
(via Amazon)
Covers and frontispieces to Voltaire’s Candide (various designers and artists, mid 18th century to early 21st century).
Cover to Victor-Émile Michelet’s Superhuman Tales—originally published in 1900 (cover art by Hoff, designer unknown, 2018).
(via Amazon)
Frontispiece to Tommaso Campanella’s The City of the Sun (engraving/design by unknown, 1602).
(via AgenPress)
Covers to Pierre Klossowski’s The Baphomet (various artists/designers, late 20th century to early 21st century).
(via Amazon, Abe Books, & Mercado Libre)
Cover to Edgar Quinet’s Ahasuerus, Black Coat Press Edition, translated and annotated by Brian Stableford (artist unknown, 2013).
(via Amazon)