1910 J. London 9 Feb. (1966) 299 I never know what the cover-design of any of my books is going to be until I get advance-copy of the market edition.
1925 D. H. Lawrence 25 Apr. (1962) II. 838 I am sending you a copy of Birds, Beasts and Flowers today... We made the cover-design between us.
1928 Jan. 8 A Pomander of Verse, by E. Nesbit, with a cover-design..by Laurence Housman.
1938 R. G. Collingwood v. 84 The magazine and newspaper, where cover-designs, news-items, fiction, and advertisement are steeped in materials of the same kind.