The Book Jacket Art of Chip Kidd

The Secret History (1992)
"What was needed was a unification of the classical and modern worlds, so we took a cue from antiquarian booksellers, who sheath their tomes in clear acetate to protect them, regardless of the vintage. What if they printed modern type on the covering, suspended above a classical statue on the binding? To us that was the way to go, but as far as we knew no one had done it on a novel before."

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