Earlier in the summer, the original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was sold for a record £1.5m. The book is more than 25 years old, but the price the watercolour ...
In The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time, Keith Houston gave this example of their scribbling: Writing is an excessive toil. The back hunches, the eyesight ...