Magazine Covers

Early magazine covers 1700s  didn't always had what we think as covers, many had magazines just had the tittle and the table of contents as cover. Sometimes they just used to put the tittle and publication data, it had no words that described what was inside the magazine or what was it about. Mother's Magazine from 1844 was an example of the cover magazine that they were starting to use with symbolic illustration cover. In 1800s they started to put lines in the cover and started to draw on it, they also started to decorate the magazines. Cosmopolitan of 1893 illustrates a common way of the magazines that they used at that time period but they added a big "C" and red lines around the sides.

Poster Cover from 1890s to the 1960s Pictures That Need no Words  was the only magazine cover that dominate the magazine field. Many illustrators learn that they needed some kind of design. Charles Dana Gibson and Maxfield Parrish, had become nationally famous for their illustrations but no only the illustration of the cover but illustration in the inside of the cover