Strange “hairy” covers of books in medieval Europe were made from seal skin obtained from Viking descendants, a new study has found.

Probably the only rule that’s one can’t to ignore is that somebody’s going to read the book and we shouldn’t make it more difficult for them. Cover of the book ‘Czerwony Monter: Mieczysław Berman – ...

Fully Booked asked its artist friends — from graphic artists to watercolorists to photographers — what the best book covers ...

And, like filling a curiosity cabinet, creating the book’s cover involved a complex assembly process. After Shusterman provided an extensive list of key elements from the stories, Chanda and ...

For a long time, the exact material that was used to make these manuscript covers, called chemises, has remained unclear. Now, scientists subjected over a dozen of these book covers to diverse ...