It’s Ok to Judge a Book By Its Cover (It’s Impossible Not To)
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For a coterie of dandyish readers during the Victorian Mauve Nineties, The Yellow Book provided something novel—book cover designs. When the literary quarterly released its first volume in the spring of 1894 it was with a high-quality cloth-bound cover colored a midnight yellow as if by the flickering of a gas lamp, with a stark black caricature of a seventeenth-century bouffanted and beauty-marked lady in a carnival mask laughing while an androgynous second stands behind her. “If I am not grote
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