The Art Of Romance - Mills & Boon And Harlequin Cover Designs
(2008 - Pestel)

(by Joanna Bowring & Margaret O'Brien) Many listings register 288 pages for this book, but there are actually only 250. 222 pages gloriously display the entire book covers, one to a page. The four endpapers each exhibit a full bleed art extract from other works. Another 14 pages feature those covers that seem to utilize photographic images. And then there are nine pages of text, giving context & background about the publishing powerhouse that's been distributing these romance novels for decades. Starting with 1912, the images collected here are arranged in release year order with that year being the first thing on each of the sideways captions, followed by the book's author, title, publisher/imprint and then the artist (if known). Be aware that the identification of the artists being represented is very very sketchy. The list of artists looks like: Joyce Dennys (3), Jack M. Faulks (4), G. Fitzgerald, Len Goldberg, J.C.B. Knight, Harry Riley, Sheilds, Rebel Stanton (3), and UNKNOWN (211).