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“Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.”

James Wolcott

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Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people.

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