“R.U.R. Covers” — Blackbird Archive

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Josef Čapek, in addition to painting and writing, was a noted book designer over the course of his career. Below are covers of multiple editions of R.U.R. that he produced for various editions. We cannot confirm that the Russian edition or the seventh Czech edition included here are a Josef Čapek covers (though the Russian, at least, seems a given.)

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R.U.R. First edition cover, 1920 — Josef Čapek First edition cover, 1920

Artist print of R.U.R cover, second edition variant, 1921 — Josef Čapek Artist print of cover, second edition variant, 1921

R.U.R. fourth edition cover, 1922 — Josef Čapek Fourth edition cover, 1922

R.U.R. German edition cover, 1922 — Josef Čapek German edition, 1922

R.U.R. Russian edition cover, 1924 — Josef Čapek? Russian edition cover, 1924)

R.U.R. seventh edition cover, 1926 — Josef Čapek? Seventh edition, 1926

R.U.R. seventh edition title page, 1926 — Seventh edition title page, 1926

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