A Selection of Anchor and Image Books Covers Designed and/or Illustrated by Edward Gorey
Together with two proofs for rejected cover designs.
Proofs are provided courtesy of the Edward Gorey Charitable Trust. Gorey often discreetly signed his covers. Anchor did not have a consistent practice of identifying the artist and/or the designer of the covers. Sometimes the names are on the verso of the title page, sometimes on the back cover, sometimes with a small signature, sometimes not at all.
A2. The Romance of Tristan and Iseult. Joseph Bédier. N.D. Gorey’s first Anchor cover. Not Credited. Signed.
A7. Lafcadio’s Adventures. André Gide. 1953. Not Credited. Signed.
A8. The Secret Agent. Joseph Conrad. N.D. Not Credited. Signed. Single person in the image occurs frequently on his covers.
A11. Shakespeare. Mark Van Doren. N.D. Gorey’s rendition of the Globe Theatre. Not credited. Signed.
A16. The Lonely Crowd. David Riesman. 1953. Not Credited. Signed.
Proof for a design not used for The Lonely Crowd. David Riesman. 1953.
A18. Loving. Henry Green. 1955. Signed.
A19. The Seventeenth Century Background. Basil Willey. 1953. Not Credited. Signed by Connie Joerns, Gorey’s Chicago schoolmate and life long friend. Joerns worked with Gorey in the Art Department of Doubleday & Company.
A43. What Maisie Knew. Henry James. 1954. Not Credited. Signed.
A49. Amerika. Franz Kafka. 1955. One of Gorey’s best known Anchor covers. Not Signed. Not Credited.
A56. An Elizabethan Song Book. 1955. Cover by Gorey. Signed. Typography by Diana Klemin.
A83. Reunion & Reaction. C. Vann Woodward. 1956. Credited. Cover by Leonard Baskin. Typography by Edward Gorey. Not Signed.