How to find your designer on this page
More information about how the monograms and designs were attributed to their respective designers is available on the References page.
Several of the monograms below are known from several different book covers, but the actual identity of their artists is yet to be confirmed. If you have any information that could help reveal their identies, please do not hesitate to contact me via email!
The first list is arranged by the name of the designer - many of them used monograms (and some had several different ones over the course of their careers, which are available on each designer's page), but not all of them signed their work in this way.
The second list is arranged by the initials of the monograms used - some of the same single initials and letter combinations were used by multiple artists, so this is a helpful way to search if you aren't certain which artist was responsible for a book cover signed with the letter 'H' or 'S'.
3 dots in a circleSee resources
A (pointy)See resources
A (with dot underneath)See resources
Ada BudellSee resources
Ada C. WilliamsonSee resources
Adelaide EverhartSee resources
Adrian J. IorioSee resources
AL in rhombus (unidentified designer)See resources
Alan WrightSee resources
Albert Angus TurbayneSee resources
Albert HerterSee resources
Alberta HallSee resources
Alfred BrennanSee resources
Alfred Ernest KnightSee resources
Alfred Garth JonesSee resources
Alfred Morton WicksonSee resources
Alfred Zantzinger BakerSee resources
Alice Cordelia MorseSee resources
Althea GylesSee resources
Amy Carol RandSee resources
Amy Maria SackerSee resources
Amy RichardsSee resources
Anna RichardsSee resources- Arabella Louisa RankinSee resources
- Arthur J. GaskinSee resources
Arthur Sinclair CoveySee resources
Arthur W. RushmoreSee resources
Aubrey BeardsleySee resources
August PetrtylSee resources- Austin YoungSee resources
AW (Conjoined)See resources- AWFSee resources
Aymer VallanceSee resources- BSee resources
B inside CSee resources- Barry FaulknerSee resources
Benjamin Wilson TrippSee resources
Bernard PartridgeSee resources
Bert CassidySee resources
Bert ValentineSee resources
Bertha StuartSee resources
Bertram Grosvenor GoodhueSee resources
BHSee resources
Blanche McManusSee resources
BRSee resources- Bruce RogersSee resources
Burton Donnel HughesSee resources
Byam ShawSee resources
C-box-X (identity unknown)See resources
Carlton Illustrators and the Carlton StudioSee resources
Caroline Marsh WattsSee resources- Catherine M. RichterSee resources
Charles Buckles FallsSee resources- Charles Dana GibsonSee resources
Charles de Sousy RickettsSee resources
Charles E. DawsonSee resources
Charles Edward HooperSee resources- Charles FolkardSee resources
Charles Godfrey LelandSee resources- Charles H. BennettSee resources
Charles H. MackieSee resources
Charles Lewis HintonSee resources
Charles Livingston BullSee resources- Charles Rennie MackintoshSee resources
Charles RobinsonSee resources- Charles W. PancoastSee resources
- Charlotte HardingSee resources
Christopher DeanSee resources
Clara E. AtwoodSee resources- Clara Elsene PeckSee resources
Clarence F. UnderwoodSee resources
Claude Fayette BragdonSee resources
CMA (Unidentified designer)See resources
Cross in a circleSee resources- CS (unidentified designer)See resources
- D (unidentified designer)See resources
- Davies & HandsSee resources
Decorative DesignersSee resources
Dorothy Pulis LathropSee resources
E.H. (Edmund Hort) NewSee resources
Earl Stetson CrawfordSee resources
EBSee resources
ECSee resources- Edith CalvertSee resources
Edmund DulacSee resources
Edmund Henry GarrettSee resources- Edmund J. SullivanSee resources
- Edward B. EdwardsSee resources
Edward C. CaswellSee resources
Edward Gordon CraigSee resources
Edward GreeySee resources
Edward Julius DetmoldSee resources
Edward PenfieldSee resources
Edward Stratton HollowaySee resources
Edwin Austin AbbeySee resources
Eleanor Fortescue-BrickdaleSee resources
Elisha Brown BirdSee resources
Eliza Brown ChaseSee resources
Elizabeth Bullock HumphreySee resources- Elizabeth GearySee resources
Elizabeth Shippen GreenSee resources- Elizabeth TaylorSee resources
- Elizabeth W. ChampneySee resources
Elmer Boyd SmithSee resources
Emily J. HardingSee resources
Enrico MonettiSee resources
Eric PapeSee resources
Ernest Charles WallcousinsSee resources
Ernest Clifford PeixottoSee resources
Ernest HaskellSee resources
ES (Unidentified designer)See resources
Ethel Belle AppelSee resources
Ethel C. BrownSee resources
Ethel Pearce ClementsSee resources
Ethel ReedSee resources
Etheldred Breeze BarrySee resources
Ethelind RidgwaySee resources- Evaleen SteinSee resources
Evangeline Mary DanielleSee resources
Evelyn W. ClarkSee resources
FA (Unidentified designer)See resources
Fanny Y. CorySee resources
Ferdinand Schuyler MathewsSee resources- FJASee resources
Florence LundborgSee resources
Florence Pearl England NosworthySee resources
Florence R. A. WildeSee resources
Florence Susan HarrisonSee resources
FPSee resources- Frances Bassett ComstockSee resources
Francis Donkin BedfordSee resources
Frank Berkeley SmithSee resources
Frank BrangwynSee resources
Frank C. PapéSee resources
Frank Gardner HaleSee resources
Frank HazenplugSee resources
Frank Richmond KimbroughSee resources
Franklin BoothSee resources- Frederic Dorr SteeleSee resources
Frederic Gross CooperSee resources
Frederic William GoudySee resources
Frederick Charles GordonSee resources
Frederick Colin TilneySee resources
Frederick GardnerSee resources
Frederick Garrison HallSee resources
Frederick Godwin MasonSee resources
Frederick LowenheimSee resources
Frederick PolleySee resources
Frederick Samuel DellenbaughSee resources
Frederick W. GookinSee resources
FRK (Unidentified designer)See resources
FTWSee resources
G. Alden PeirsonSee resources
GEBSee resources
Gelett BurgessSee resources
George AuriolSee resources- George Edward BartonSee resources
- George Hawley HallowellSee resources
- George Heywood SumnerSee resources
George Mather RichardsSee resources
George Percy Jacomb-HoodSee resources
George Washington HoodSee resources
George Wharton EdwardsSee resources
George Willard BonteSee resources
George Wooliscroft RheadSee resources
Gertrude E. Demain HammondSee resources- GHSee resources
Gleeson WhiteSee resources
GMWSee resources- Gordon BrowneSee resources
- Gordon Frederick BrowneSee resources
GRSee resources
GRH (unidentified designer)See resources
Griselda Marshall McClureSee resources- Guernsey MooreSee resources
- HSee resources
Haldane MacFallSee resources- Hanson BoothSee resources
Harold Edward Hughes NelsonSee resources
Harold ImbrieSee resources
Harold Robert MillarSee resources
Harold SichelSee resources
Harry B. MatthewsSee resources
HC (not yet identified)See resources
HEFSee resources
Helen M. BartonSee resources
Helen Sinclair Patterson (Williams)See resources
Helen StrattonSee resources
Henry Hunt ClarkSee resources
Henry Justice FordSee resources
Henry Landon ParkhurstSee resources
Henry McCarterSee resources
Henry OspovatSee resources
Henry SandhamSee resources
Henry Van DykeSee resources- Henry W. ThayerSee resources
Herbert ColeSee resources
Herbert Deland WilliamsSee resources
Herbert Granville FellSee resources- Herbert RailtonSee resources
- Horace James BradleySee resources
Horace T. CarpenterSee resources
Howard PyleSee resources- Hugh ThomsonSee resources
Ian Bernard Stoughton HolbournSee resources
Ida M. SutherlandSee resources
Isaac Brewster HazeltonSee resources
J.E.H. MacdonaldSee resources
J.P. PembertonSee resources
JASee resources
James Allan DuncanSee resources
James Joshua GuthrieSee resources
Jan TooropSee resources
Jay ChambersSee resources
JF (Unidentified designer)See resources
JHB (Unknown Designer)See resources
John Augustus KnappSee resources
John D. BattenSee resources
John F. Earhart (tentative)See resources
John GossSee resources
John HassallSee resources- John Illingworth KaySee resources
John LeightonSee resources
John RaeSee resources- John Rea NeillSee resources
John Scott WilliamsSee resources
Joseph Christian LeyendeckerSee resources- Joseph PennellSee resources
Joseph Walter WestSee resources
Julia Ward RichardsSee resources
Julius A. SchweinfurthSee resources
Julius DiezSee resources
K (Unidentified designer)See resources
Karl AndersonSee resources
Katharine CameronSee resources
Katharine M. RobertsSee resources- Katharine PyleSee resources
- Katherine Hood McCormickSee resources
KMBSee resources
Laura Ethel LarcombeSee resources
Laurence HousmanSee resources- LBSee resources
- Lee ThayerSee resources
Leonard Leslie BrookeSee resources- Lester G. HornbySee resources
Lewis Foreman DaySee resources- Lilian Eveleth WhittekerSee resources
LKSee resources
Louis Barraud DavisSee resources- Louis D. FancherSee resources
Louis Fairfax MuckleySee resources
Louis J. RheadSee resources
Louise Mapes Bunnell KeelerSee resources
Lucy Fitch PerkinsSee resources- Lynton Harold LambSee resources
M inside C (unknown designer)See resources
M.L. BlumenthalSee resources
Mabel Betsy HillSee resources
Mabel HarlowSee resources
Margaret ArmstrongSee resources
Margaret GregorySee resources
Margaret Lesley Bush-BrownSee resources- Margaret West and Troy KinneySee resources
Marion Louise PeabodySee resources
Mary Artemisia LathburySee resources
Mary Cowles ClarkSee resources
Mary Crete CrouchSee resources
Mary P. WinlockSee resources- Mary Vermuyden WheelhouseSee resources
Maud Hunt SquireSee resources- Maurice Brazil PrendergastSee resources
- Maxfield ParrishSee resources
MC (Conjoined)See resources
McN (unidentified designer)See resources
MPF (unidentified designer)See resources
N. MackintoshSee resources
NBSee resources
Nico JungmanSee resources- NMB (Unidentified designer)See resources
Norman Mills PriceSee resources
Olive Lothrop GroverSee resources
Oliver HerfordSee resources- P (Unknown designer)See resources
P in circleSee resources
Pamela Colman SmithSee resources
Patten WilsonSee resources- Paul BransomSee resources
Paul Vincent WoodroffeSee resources- Percy G. BulleySee resources
- Percy J. BillinghurstSee resources
Peter NewellSee resources- PGSee resources
- Phoebe Anna TraquairSee resources
Pine tree (Unknown designer)See resources
Porter GarnettSee resources
PV (Unknown designer)See resources- R (Unidentified Designer)See resources
Rachael Robinson ElmerSee resources
Ralph Fletcher SeymourSee resources
Ralph PeacockSee resources- Randolph CaldecottSee resources
RCSee resources- Reginald B. BirchSee resources
Reginald L. KnowlesSee resources
RG (unidentified designer)See resources
RH (Unidentified designer)See resources
Robert Anning BellSee resources
Robert Bruce HorsfallSee resources
Robert Weir CrouchSee resources- Robert William ChambersSee resources
- Roger FrySee resources
Rome K. RichardsonSee resources- S (unidentified designer)See resources
Sarah Wyman WhitmanSee resources
Scott CalderSee resources- Selwyn ImageSee resources
- Sidney Herbert SimeSee resources
- Stanford WhiteSee resources
- Stella LangdaleSee resources
Stephen ReidSee resources
Sunderland RollinsonSee resources
Talwin MorrisSee resources- TBDSee resources
Theodore Brown HapgoodSee resources
Thomas Buford MeteyardSee resources- Thomas FogartySee resources
Thomas Heath RobinsonSee resources
Thomas Maitland ClelandSee resources
Thomas Sturge MooreSee resources
Thomas Watson BallSee resources
TN (unidentified designer)See resources
Truman W. "True" WilliamsSee resources
Unknown DesignerSee resources- Unknown Harper's BinderSee resources
VD (unidentified designer)See resources
VESee resources- Victor A SearlesSee resources
W (unidentified designer #2)See resources
W (unidentified designer #3)See resources- W. Graham RobertsonSee resources
W.T. BendaSee resources
WA (Unknown Designer)See resources
Walter CraneSee resources
Walter King StoneSee resources- Walter SpindlerSee resources
Walter W. FawcettSee resources
WE (#1)See resources
WGE (Unidentified designer)See resources
Will BradleySee resources- Will Hicok LowSee resources
- Will JenkinsSee resources
William Addison DwigginsSee resources
William Brown MacdougallSee resources
William Edward Bloomfield StarkweatherSee resources
William G. EastonSee resources
William Harrison CowlishawSee resources
William Harry RogersSee resources
William Heath RobinsonSee resources
William James JordanSee resources
William Mather CrockerSee resources- William MorrisSee resources
- William RobertsSee resources
William Snelling HadawaySee resources
William StrangSee resources
William Thomas HortonSee resources
William Wallace DenslowSee resources
Willy PogánySee resources
WMCSee resources
Woldemar FriedrichSee resources- WS (Unidentified designer)See resources
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A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
R
S
T
U
V
W
- 3 dots in a circle
- A (3)
- A in box
- A in circle
- A with a dot underneath it
- A within heart
- AA
- AB (3)
- AcW
- AE
- AG
- AGJ
- AH
- AJG
- AL
- Albert Herter
- AMW
- AP
- AR (3)
- ARB
- AT
- AW (2)
- AW (conjoined)
- AWR
- B (6)
- B inside C
- BB (with first B backwards)
- BC
- BFS
- BG
- BH (2)
- Bird
- BMLB
- BP
- BS (2)
- Burton Donnel Hughes
- BV
- BWT
- C (4)
- C with a crane inside of it
- C with crown
- C.
- CB
- CEA
- CED
- CEP
- CGL
- CH
- CHB
- Circular EW
- CL Bull
- CLB
- CLH
- cloverleaf
- CMA
- CMW
- CR (3)
- CRM
- CRMackintosh
- Cross in a circle
- CS
- CS (separated)
- CWP
- D
- E
- E B Barry
- EB (3)
- EB (conjoined)
- EB Bird
- EB in a complex design with crisscrossed initials, a vertical line through center, and > < on the sides
- EBA
- EBC
- EBC (as musical notes on a treble clef)
- EBS
- EC (2)
- ECB
- ECP
- ED
- EE
- EFB
- EHG
- EHG (with E turned backwards, and letters conjoined)
- EHG with letters intertwined inside of a circle
- EHN
- EHNew
- EJH
- EJS
- EM
- EMD
- EPC
- ER
- ES (2)
- ESG
- EW
- F (2)
- FA
- FB (2)
- FBC
- FBC in box
- FBS
- FC Gordon
- FC Pape
- FCG
- FCP
- FCT
- FDB
- FG
- FG Hall
- FGC
- FGH (2)
- FH (2)
- FJA
- FL (2)
- Flower
- FM in circle
- FP (4)
- Frank C. Pape
- FRAW
- Frederick Gardner
- FRK (2)
- FSD
- FTW
- FW
- FWG
- FYC
- FYCory
- G (4)
- G McC
- GA
- GB
- GC
- GDH
- GEB
- GH (2)
- GM
- GM Richards
- GMR
- GMW
- GR (4)
- GRH
- GRW
- GWB
- GWE
- GWH
- GWR
- H (8)
- h (lowercase)
- H with hump in middle of bar
- HB
- HBM
- HC (2)
- HDW
- HEF
- HGF
- HH (2)
- HI
- HJ Ford
- HJF
- HLP
- HM (2)
- HMB
- HN
- HO
- HP
- HR Millar
- HRM
- HS (2)
- HVD
- HW
- HW within a C
- HWC
- IBSH
- IHB
- IMS
- Inverted triangle
- JA
- JAD
- JAD (in box)
- JAK
- JAS
- JB
- JC
- JCL
- JDB
- JF
- JF (conjoined)
- JG
- JJG
- JJG (stylized)
- JL
- JM
- JR
- JRN
- JT
- JWR
- JWS
- K (5)
- K in a box
- K in box
- K with three dots around it
- K.
- KA
- KM
- KMB
- KMR
- KP
- LBH
- LD
- LD (stylized)
- LE
- LFD
- LFM
- LH
- LK (2)
- LLB
- LMK
- M (4)
- M in circle
- M with S in middle
- MAL
- MBH
- MBP
- MC
- MC (conjoined)
- McC (3)
- McN
- MG
- MH
- MP
- MPF
- MPW
- MS (2)
- MVH
- N
- N in box
- NB
- NiCO
- NMB
- NMP
- None found thus far (2)
- P (4)
- P in circle
- PAT
- PCS
- Pem
- PG (2)
- PJB
- PN
- PSH
- PV
- PW (3)
- R (3)
- R An B
- R An Bell
- R with S inside
- RAB
- RBH
- RC (2)
- RFS
- RG
- RH
- RK
- RLK
- RLK (in heart)
- RP
- RR (2)
- RRE
- RS
- RWC
- S (4)
- S and B in a circle
- S in box
- S Langdale
- SB
- SC
- Scarab
- SI
- SLR
- SR
- Sturge Moore
- SW
- Symbol
- T
- TBH
- THR
- TM
- TN
- TSM
- TWB
- V
- VD
- VE
- VP
- W (5)
- W with curved arms and an acute apex slightly shorter than the arms, with no serifs or extensions on the arms
- W with very curved vortices and elongated arms
- W, sans serif with the apex and vortices all the same height
- W.
- W.J.
- WA (2)
- WAD
- WB
- WBM
- WE
- WE in serif letters
- WEBS
- WEST
- WEST as weathervane
- WF
- WG Easton
- WGE (2)
- WH
- WHR (2)
- WJ (2)
- WJJ
- WKS
- WMC (2)
- WP
- WR
- WS (3)
- WTB
- WTH
- WTW
- WWF
- ᗺB