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HB in circle This could be either an HB or an HR in a circle.
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Harold Haven Brown
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Jessie Howard Brown
A designer about whom little is known - she's mentioned as the designer for two different covers in two separate articles and publishers' announcements.
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Gaston Darbour
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BW
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Fred J. Arting
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ED (in oval)
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Maria Louise Kirk
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SH An unidentified designer who used a monogram that looks to be a larger S intersecting with a letter H. So far this monogram has only been found on covers of books published by the McLoughlin Brothers.
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V in a box
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HH
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GLH
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B inside C (#2)
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AF stacked A rounded A on top intersecting with an F below it
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Genjiro Yeto Genjiro Yeto (1867-1924) was born Genjiro Kataoka in Arita, Japan. Late in life he reassumed the name Kataoka. He came to the United States around 1891 and studied at theNew York's Art Students League.
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AR (blocky, with line through it) This does not seem the be the monogram used by either Amy Rand or Amy Richards. The designer who used this monogram did covers for Boston publishers Dana Estes, Little Brown, and L.C. Page and Company.
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AB in circle (Alice Ball, maybe) A monogram used by a designer that is speculated to be Alice Ball, the wife of Thomas Watson Ball.
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EHB
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William Henry Drake
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HS (version 1)
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George Denham
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Herman Lee Meader
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Jean de Paleologu
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PV conjoined An unidentified designer who used a monogram that looks like a P coming out from the middle of a V.
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HH in Rhombus
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Donald Maxwell
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William Henry Margetson
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Dan Smith
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Thomas Robert Way
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William Fletcher White
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Fanny Munsell Chambers
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Latimer J. Wilson
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Isabel Bonus
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Hilda Mary Pemberton
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Thomas John Overnell
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Will Crawford
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Arthur Garfield Learned
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William Herbert Dunton
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Dorothy Dulin
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A. Talbot Smith
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Charles Edmund Brock
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Paul Hardy Primarily an illustrator, with a few cover designs that use his artwork.
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J. W. Ferguson Kennedy
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Harold Hume Piffard Primarily an illustrator, but some of his designs were used on the covers of the books he also illustrated.
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Gilbert Penrose James
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R
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JFC
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Peter Verburg Primarily a bookbinder, Peter Verburg apprenticed under bookbinder Ellen Starr Gates at the Hull House bindery in Chicago.
For the Boston publisher L.C. Page, he provided at least one book cover, and a set of decorations that were reused in a set of titles by the author Nathan Gallizier.
He later went on to become the directory of the bindery at the Merrymount Press, working for D.B. Updike.
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Wilfred Jones
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Robert Traill Rose Rose's circular (RTR) monogram was identified from a painting called "The White Peace", held in the collections of the Edinburgh City Art Centre.
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Frederick Richardson
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Clara Powers Wilson
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Alfred Pearse
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Charles Pears
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John Menzies
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Nathan Vanderlyn "Watercolorist, etcher, engraver, illustrator based in London. Studied at the Slade School and Royal College of Art. Taught painting at the London Central School of Arts. Exhibited at the Royal Institute of Water Colours, Royal Academy, and Royal Society of British Artists. Biographical information: Houfe 484, Wood 485, Johnson and Greutzner 515." - From The Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project
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RM
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Archibald Chasemore A cartoonist known primarily for the cartoons he did for Judy (1875-1889) and Punch (1868-1879).
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SM inside C C with an intersecting S and M inside of it
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G. Waters Possibly George Waters (1863-1947), the Irish lithographic artist referenced here: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/waters-george-18631947
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E
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Mabel Dearmer She is often credited as "Mrs. Percy Dearmer" in publishers advertisements and in the books she illustrated.
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Lucy Kemp Welch
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Bertha G. Davidson Bertha was an artist from Boston who illustrated many children's books and also designed some covers for the same.
Until she married Edward E. Hoxie, she was credited (and signed her work as) Bertha G. Davidson, and sometimes used a "D" monogram, or a "BGD" monogram.. After her marriage, she was credited either as "Bertha G. Davidson", "Bertha Davidson Hoxie", or just "Bertha Hoxie". Her monogram also seems to have changed to an "H" or "BDH" at that point.
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Alfred William Parsons
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Gertrude M. Bradley
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L
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J
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C
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MT
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George Alfred Williams George A. Williams was primarily an illustrator, rather than a cover designer. An edition of Dickens titles featuring his illustrations, called "The Williams Edition" was published by The Baker and Taylor Company.
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Harry Furniss
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M. Nisbet Likely the daughter of Hume Nisbet, Margaret Henrietta Nisbet. Illustrated several books written by Hume Nisbet
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Hume Nisbet
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Walter Jenks Morgan
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Joseph Brown
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Walter Joseph Enright
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Maginel Wright Enright
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Harriet O'Brien
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Robert A. Graef
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Edith Brown
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Amy Brooks
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Elisabeth B. Warren An American children's book illustrator who also did a few covers for the books she illustrated. In 1918 she received training to serve as an Occupational Therapy Aid during WWI, but when the war ended, in 1919 she requested a discharge due to poor health. She established (with another graduate of the Boston School of Occupational Therapy) the Occupational therapy department in the V.B. Hospital in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, which the army took over a few weeks later.
She returned to illustrating books, and traveled to England to study etching. She met her husband, the artist Tod Lindenmuth, there and they married in 1925. She had two children by 1929.
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Margaret W. Tarrant
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William Edward Wigfull Wigfull most often signed his illustrations "W.E. Wigfull". The attribution of the W in a box monogram was secured via an illustration for an article by 'Sabretache' called "Pictures in the Fire" which was published in "The Tatler" for 1917 October 3, Page 6.
Wigfull also used the "W." in a box monogram for some of his illustrations in the 1914 edition of Westerman's "The Log of a Snob".
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Rachel Cassels Brown
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Harold C. Earnshaw
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Norman Ault
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Francis I. Bennett
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A with serifs
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Mabel Williamson
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Zane Grey
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Frederick Landseer Maur Griggs
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William Henry Walker
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Archibald Webb Not to be confused with Archibald Bertram Webb (1887-1944) who signed his work A.B. Webb.
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Thomas Mackenzie
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Adam Empie
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AE
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Winifred Bromhall "Winifred Bromhall was born in Walsall, Staffordshire, England and was educated at Queen Mary's School, Walsall Art School and Birmingham University. Her family immigrated to the United States in 1924. She worked for a while at the Children's Art Center in Boston and in the art department of a New York settlement house before illustrating full time.
She illustrated her first children's book, Zodiac Town: The Rhymes of Amos and Ann, by Nancy Byrd Turner in 1921. She continued to illustrate for other authors until 1945, when she began writing and illustrating her own books. Her first self- illustrated book was Johanna Arrives (1945)." -Finding Aid for the Winifred Bromhall Papers at the University of Southern Mississippi Libraries Special Collections
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WR curvy
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WR
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Edith Richardson
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William Nicholson
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Alec Carruthers Gould
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James Affleck Shepherd
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George Frederick Scotson-Clark
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A.C. Valentine
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ABG
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A (sans serif, tall)
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Dard Hunter
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hG
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Harold Frederick Neville Gye
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Winifred Smith
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Benjamin L. Robinson
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CP
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A in triangle
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Maxwell Armfield
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M over R No information was located about the identity of this artist.
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George Thorp No information was located about the identity of this artist, who designed covers for some London publishers.
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W (unidentified designer #4) The arms of the W are higher than the middle peak.
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W (unidentified designer #5)
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Audley Gunston
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Mabel Lucie Attwell
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Archie Gunn
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Joseph M. Gleeson
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Arthur Hughes
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William Hamilton Gibson
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George Algernon Fothergill
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Vachel Lindsay
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Ernest Henry Roberts Collings
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Clifton Johnson
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Beatrice Anne Mary Waldram Beatrice studied art at the Clapton School of Art. She was hired by Lewis foreman Day to be his assistant, and worked for him from 1898-1904.
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Emil Pollak-Ottendorff
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David Whitelaw
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George A. Traver
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Walter Sydney Berridge
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ELF
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F. C. Yohn
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Reginald F. Hallward
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AB (letters separated)
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AB (conjoined)
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WE
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Victor Pérard
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G
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F
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EW
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CFS in clover
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Frank Chesworth
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R in circle
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Ernest George Fosbery
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CHD
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WF (letters separated)
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K in a circle This may actually represent one or more designers.
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H with E inside
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Orson Lowell
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A in Box
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Mabel Betsy Hill
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HEF
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A (pointy)
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Ada Budell Ada's monogram was an A with a rounded or outwardly curving left stem connected with a B. Sometimes she also would use a separated A and B, with or without dots in between the letters.
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Bert Valentine
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J.P. Pemberton
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Katharine M. Roberts
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PG
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GR
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GMW
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GEB
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Charles Folkard
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FJA
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Frank Brangwyn
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Hanson Booth
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Percy J. Billinghurst
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BH
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Charles H. Bennett
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B inside C
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B
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William Strang
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Edith Calvert
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Arthur J. Gaskin
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Clara Elsene Peck In 1906, Peck married British-born illustrator John Scott Williams (1877–1975)...Peck and Williams shared similar styles, leading the two to occasionally collaborate on illustrations together. These works were signed with the first initials of their last names, "P W". Some of Peck's works are also credited as Clara Elsene Williams and the press sometimes referred to her as "Mrs. John Scott Williams". (From Wikipedia Article about Clara Elsene Peck)
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Charles H. Mackie
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RC
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William Brown Macdougall
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FP
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VE
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Robert William Chambers
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LK
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Ian Bernard Stoughton Holbourn
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Elizabeth Taylor
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Bert Cassidy Bert Cassidy was an artist and reporter who worked in Cincinnati, Kansas City, Denver, and Chicago. He committed suicide on April 13, 1901.
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James Joshua Guthrie
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George Percy Jacomb-Hood
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Cross in a circle
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MC (Conjoined)
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Frederick Colin Tilney
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Isaac Brewster Hazelton
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Frank Gardner Hale Hale started out as a book cover and bookplate designer, but is most well known for his jewelry designs. He set up his jewelry and design studio in Boston in 1907.
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Edmund Henry Garrett
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Frederick Gardner
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Norman Mills Price
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Harold Edward Hughes Nelson
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J.E.H. Macdonald
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Alfred Zantzinger Baker
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Leonard Leslie Brooke
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Ralph Fletcher Seymour
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George Mather Richards
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Herbert Deland Williams
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Stella Langdale
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William Mather Crocker
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W. T. Whitehead Very little is known about this designer and illustrator. He does not appear in the usual sources for book illustrators. Based on the signatures used and the style of art, it seems unlikely he is the same person as Walter Whitehead, the American artist, but not impossible.
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CMA (Unidentified designer) This designer's monogram was listed as #30 on Gullans unpublished list of monograms.
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Pamela Colman Smith
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Elizabeth Shippen Green
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William G. Easton
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Mary Artemisia Lathbury
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MPF (unidentified designer)
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VD (unidentified designer)
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Griselda Marshall McClure
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TN (unidentified designer)
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Ethel Pearce Clements
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Charles Rennie Mackintosh
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George Auriol
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Ernest Charles Wallcousins
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Laura Ethel Larcombe
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Lewis Foreman Day
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William Harrison Cowlishaw
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Byam Shaw
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Maud Hunt Squire
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Robert Hope
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W (unidentified designer #3)
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W (unidentified designer #2)
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Burton Donnel Hughes Son of Dr. Donnel Hughes and Sarah Sommers.
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Eliza Brown Chase
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FTW Referenced as the "Lupton designer" on Brower's Bookstore list of designers, and as "FTW" in others.
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James Allan Duncan Originally from Glasgow, Duncan relocated to London sometime in 1899 or so. Not much is known of him in the literature, but he seems to have been primarily a designer for books and greeting cards.
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Etheldred Breeze Barry
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ES (Unidentified designer)
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Adelaide Everhart Adelaide was the daughter of the Reverend George Marlow Everhart (1826-1891), an Episcopal minister. She was an artist and illustrator of children's books. Her paintings hung in the Georgia capitol building.
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Clara E. Atwood
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D (unidentified designer)
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Mary Cowles Clark
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Elisha Brown Bird
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CS (unidentified designer) Not to be confused with the CS monogram used by the Carlton Studio.
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Edward B. Edwards
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Edward Greey
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Frederick Garrison Hall
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Nico Jungman
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Reginald L. Knowles Knowles designed covers for the following publishers:
J.M. Dent, Newnes, Cassell, Jarrold, George Allen, Freemantle, Jack, Partridge, and Truslove Hanson.
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Maxfield Parrish
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Ethelind Ridgway