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Zac Petit gets lost in the magic of the minutiae and comes back with 15 stellar book covers.

As Zachary Petit writes, we’re in a golden age of book cover design inspired by publishing’s own golden age.

In the Instagram age, you actually can judge a book by its cover Ellie Violet Bramley Last week’s big literary event was not the publication of a new book, the million-pound signing of a celebrity author or the announcement of a prestigious prize. Instead, it was the unveiling of a cover: the jacket of the forthcoming novel by Sally Rooney. “It’s quite rare that a publisher will reveal a jacket and make such a big deal about who designed it, or even mention who designed it...