This June, a universally recognized literary illustration is set to go to auction at Sotheby’s: Thomas Taylor’s original watercolor for the first book in the beloved Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. Taylor’s work, featured on the covers of the first edition of the novel in 1997, is estimated at $400,000 to […]
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the publication of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, Bloomsbury is going to publish a new edition next June 9th. This was announced a few months ago, where the publisher promised that this new edition (that will have the original cover by Thomas Taylor) was going to include some […]
Bloomsbury will publish a special commemorative edition featuring the original cover design of Hary Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, with artwork by Thomas Taylor. To be published in June 2022, this new edition will mimic the original one published back in 1997. The British publisher has set up a page answering frequent questions from the […]
Haunters Thomas Taylor The Chicken House, 2012 – Scholastic, 2013 [wordery isbn=9781906427788][/wordery] Thomas Taylor’s first novel brings back one of my favorite subjects: time travel. But how? Or I should say where? Since his father died, David Utherwise has been dreaming about Eddie, another 14-year-old boy who he already considered his friend, who he cares […]
Harry Potter is a huge franchise. Movies, merchandising and a lot of books. A guy with a scar and glasses. But the first person who gave Harry a public face was Thomas Taylor, the artist responsible for the cover for Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (1997, Bloomsbury). Thomas Taylor drew the first Harry Potter […]
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