Album Cover Album Hardback

New Edition - Over 600 photographs
(US & Canada edition cover shown above. Rest of world cover in additional images section below.)

Album Cover Album (Ilex Press, £19.99) is a stunningly designed review and celebration of the greatest album cover designs from the 50s to the 70s. This retro collectible will intrigue music lovers and become an essential reference work for a new generation of artists and designers.  Edited and compiled by Roger Dean and Storm Thorgerson, the Album Cover Album features over 600 sleeves in full colour, and showcases the astonishing diversity and excellence of design that the medium produced in its first three decades.

This new edition, updated with a revised design treatment, preface and forewords, retains the lavish 12" format to show off the covers in all their life-size glory, and maintains the superbly themed pictorial compositions of each double-page spread. When first published in 1977, the book sold over 250,000 copies in its first year and spawned a host of imitations.  The original and still the best, its appeal lies in its juxtaposition of familiar icons of rock design with fascinating surveys of lesser-know genres of album cover art.