A Brief History of the Dust Jacket: From Renaissance Wrappers to Designed Object

I Love Typography traces the dust jacket from Renaissance protective wrappers to the 19th-century moment it became a marketing surface — and then a designed object in its own right. The piece reframes a piece of paper most readers throw away as the actual front line of book design: a place where typography, illustration, and editorial intent first meet the buyer’s eye. Source: I Love Typography

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