Yellowback Cover Art is a project to bring to you the amazing covers of nineteenth-century novels. The novels were nicknamed "Yellowbacks" for the colors of the boards used in making their colorful covers. They were typically sold at the new railway station bookstalls. The images you see are largely from the Sadleir collection of nineteenth-century novels in UCLA's Young Research Library's Special Collections and from Emory's Internet Archive.

Citations to the site should be to: Ellen Truxaw Bistline and Jonathan H. Grossman, Yellowback Cover Art, www.flickr.com/photos/yellowbacks

The full set of people who have brought you this site are from UCLA: Ellen Truxaw (UCLA English PhD 2021), Robert Montoya (UCLA Information Studies), Jillian Cueller (previously of UCLA Library Special Collections), and Professor Jonathan H. Grossman (UCLA English Department). We have had wonderful (paid) help from undergraduates Gloria Zhang & Angela Kim.

The grants and resources enabling us to put together this site came primarily from the UCLA Academic Senate with much additional help from the Young Research Library's Center for Primary Research and Training. Thanks very much to Emory for sharing their files with us. (Here is their Yellowback site.)

Enjoy!