Library Quarterly Covers

Every issue of LQ, starting with the first one in 1931, has a cover design based on a printer's mark, and an essay about the design and history of that pressmark. This Web page presents a database of information about these covers. In a few cases, contributors have duplicated covers, but for the most part the cover design only appears once.

You can sort the data by clicking on any column heading; you can resize columns by dragging on the vertical bars between headings; you can search for values in any single column. The columns are:

• Year of publication in LQ
• Information about the images in the pressmark
• Press (or publisher)
• Printer
• Dates of printer's birth and death, or years flourished
• City of printing
• Country of printing
• LQ Volume number
• LQ Quarter within the volume
• Author of LQ essay
• Picture availability. If "Yes" appears, then you can click on that entry to see a photograph of the cover in a separate window.

Last Update: 5 November 2007; thanks RP