E. McKnight KAUFFER

The Week-end Book.  xii, 320 pp.  8vo., 197 x 124 mm, bound in publisher’s cloth and dust-jacket designed by Kauffer.  London: The Nonesuch Press, 1924.  WITH:

BBC Handbook 1928.  384 pp.  8vo., 197 x 124 mm, bound in publisher’s cloth and dust-jacket designed by Kauffer.  [London]: British Broadcasting Corporation, 1928.  WITH:

BBC Handbook 1929.  480 pp.  8vo., 187 x 124 mm, bound in publisher’s cloth and dust-jacket designed by Kauffer.  [London]: British Broadcasting Corporation, 1929.

Three examples of E. McKnight Kauffer’s brilliance as a graphic designer, here in the form of dust-jackets from the 1920’s.  American by birth, Kauffer (1890-1954), spent the majority of his active career in London and was best known for the posters he designed for the London Underground.   The dust-jackets suffer from some chipping with minor loss, still good examples on books that would have been used for reference.