magazine

Early Magazine Covers

- most early magazines did not have the covers we think as covers. many dedicated to opening pages to a title or a table of contents as many early magazine had this like one the town and country magazine or the universal repository of knowledge. many early magazines were model to look like book covers providing only a title and publication data and there was no descriptive word indicating what would be found in the magazine,

the covers of the American magazine of useful and entertaining knowledge from 1835 shows a formal  book like cover with a small illustration that appears to have a decorative purpose rather than the illustration the contents. the table of contents cover and the book like cover co-existed through the 1700s and 1800s.

mother magazine from 1844 is an example of a third kind of cover