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Joseph Connolly - book collector, antiquarian dealer, and acclaimed novelist - has compiled an impassioned guide and love letter to the designers, artists and authors at the heart of Faber's design story. From its beginnings in the 1920s and 1930s on to the classic years of innovation under Berthold Wolpe after the War, and from the celebrated period of collaboration with Pentagram on to the modern day, here is, as he concludes in his preface, 'a lavish celebration of the art and beauty of these magnificent covers, from just the first eighty years'.
Even gazing at these so slim spines, I was taken. And at the foot of each one, the word Faber. The vitality of the design, even on these very narrow spines, compelled me to slide out the books. And the covers! Oh my goodness, the covers ... the colour, strength and typography were not at all brash, but merely dynamic: here, I thought, was splendour. And it was the covers that encouraged me to open the books. And to read. And then to discover.
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Designed to form part of the eightieth anniversary of Faber and Faber (in 2009), the book is a collection of the best cover designs, a tribute to the best of book art. It is put together by Joseph Connolly, who seems to be the perfect man for the job. A self confessed book junkie who claims to have begun collecting books before he even left school, Connolly had published non fiction books when, at last, he wrote what he always wanted to write - a novel. That Faber and Faber offered to publish it was a source of much delight. So much delight that he accepted their bid despite the presence of higher ones. It seems to have paid off on both sides as Connolly is now a prolific novelist but the love affair has obviously continued and that passion shines throughout this wonderful book.
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