The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride

Discipline: Book design
Format: Book cover
Design firm: 6x9design
Art director: Kathleen M. Lynch
Jacket designer: Jonathan Sainsbury (6x9design)
Illustrator: English engraving, 1860
Author: Julia C. Collins
Typefaces: Matchwood, Type no. 1, Typo Script
Publisher/client: Oxford University Press

Common for the period, this novel was originally serialized as newspaper entries. My hope was to convey the production history of the “first serialized novel by an African American woman,” while also referencing the narrative itself.

Juror Notes: “The tried and true device of reproducing a printed piece goes above the stereotype here.”