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1SteveJohnson
In Ten Years and William Shakespeare, his summary of the LEC's first 10 years, Macy devotes four pages to showing variations on the original LEC logo, which appeared on the colophon among other places and featured a stylized image of three people sitting side-by-side and reading books. Later illustrators adapted or altered that image to their own tastes. If you have not checked out your LECs, it's worth a look. I posted the images on Flickr, here: https://flic.kr/s/aHsksbyxeH
2Django6924
Yes, this process went on for many years, and some of the variations were quite wonderful and like getting a bonus illustration. Not every illustrator followed the "Three Readers" theme--Allen Lewis for Undine ignored it altogether, and Thomas Benton did not include one for The Grapes of Wrath. I'm not sure when the "Three Readers" was discontinued, however the majority of my LECs rom the post-Macy family era do not have it.
3BuzzBuzzard
Some reworks of the LEC logo are quite spirited. Like Lynd Ward's take on it for For Whom the Bell Tolls.
4featherwate
>1 SteveJohnson: >2 Django6924: >3 BuzzBuzzard:
Although they're neither readers nor strictly speaking a colophon illustration, I do like the three shifty clerics who adorn the end of Arthur Szyk's Canterbury Tales:
Although they're neither readers nor strictly speaking a colophon illustration, I do like the three shifty clerics who adorn the end of Arthur Szyk's Canterbury Tales:
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