One of the pleasures of researching poster history, and British poster history especially, is the sheer amount that has been written on the subject from the nineteenth century to the present day. Our bibliography is an ongoing attempt to list all the books written about poster design in the UK, with ‘new’ titles (well, new to me) seemingly popping up all the time.
 
This blog, though, has a more modest intention: to celebrate the cover artwork of a selection of poster books & magazines from the first sixty years of the twentieth century. The idiosyncratic selection is based on my own collection and is in no way meant as a definitive representation. But they’re all designs that I like and include some of the most significant poster publications of the times.
 
If you’re interested in starting your own collection of poster books (Warning: very addictive), we always carry a selection of rare and second-hand titles here.