Book Jacket and Cover Designs: The Sweet Shop Owner
Scope & Content:
Different cover designs (without dates) from Penguin, Picador and Vintage International. With two additional images in the form of small colour prints (95 x 75mm).
Designs from London Magazine Editions, William Heinemann, Picador (3 designs), and Simon & Schuster. Also, three alternative designs for the German edition and an exchange of faxes (2006) in which Swift expresses a preference for one of the three designs.
1. Cover designs from Heinemann (2 designs), Picador (3 designs), Picador Thirty (3 designs), and Penguin. 2. Design by Editorial Planeta, Barcelona, with Grant & Cutler Ltd compliment slip ('Doesn't look like the Fens to me'). 3. Design by Vintage International. 4. Mock-up of Picador cov...
1. Book jacket (3 copies) from Viking. 2. Mock-up from Penguin, with black and white photograph used on the cover (165 x 230mm). 3. Designs from Picador, Vintage International, and colour print of a cover showing a biplane (publisher not indicated).
1. Black and white illustration (A3 photocopy) to accompany extract from Last Orders published in Granta, but not used. 1995, artist not indicated. 2. Picador. Dust jacket (x 2) and subsequent cover with same beer glass design and reference to the Booker Prize. 3. Vintage International, with r...
1. Covers from Hamish Hamilton (dustjacket), Knopf and Vintage International. 2. 2006. A new cover proof (with attached card from Simon Prosser, Hamish Hamilton) for the Penguin edition.
1. Picador. Two dust jackets and proofs. 2. 15 February, 2007. Letter from Alfred A Knopf, with four proposed jackets. 3. 26 July, 2007. Letter from Knopf with final proof (using the beach photograph from the Picador edition).