Will Schofield, Author at The Rumpus

Origins of the Portuguese Paper Fetish

Twenty-four vintage book covers from Portugal:

Quotes and images from the “Robot” entry of Cybernetics A to Z by V. Pekelis (Moscow, Mir Publishers, 1970 and 1974):

Another installment of vintage book design from Poland:

Bookplates by Konstantin Antioukhin and Konstantin Kalinovich:

Elena Trofimova’s illustrations for a 1985 Russian edition of Dante’s La Vita Nouva:

Illustrations by Enric C. Ricart for The Ingenious Don Quixote of La Mancha (1933):

Alternate and early drafts from Joanna Neborsky’s wonderful new book Illustrated Three-Line Novels: Félix Fénéon:

This is an “all Japan” edition of one of my image dives. Most of them are 20th century prints, found around the internet:

Recent works by artist Mary O’Malley:

All images from Le Livre de Sante by Joseph Handler (Monte Carlo: Andre Sauret, 1967):