Cover for ‘Rip van Winkle’
Anonymous artist
1893
Cloth binding
7½ x 4¾ inches
The poppies appearing on this front cover amusingly point to the text’s theme – sleepiness. The narcolepsy is immediately contradicted, however, by the dynamism of the moving stems blown in the wind, natural process and change asserting itself in the face of somnambulant stasis.
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Photograph and text by Simon Cooke.