Sorting these covers by decade
Moby Dick by decade
Herman Melville
290 covers from 291 printings with a known year, 2020s back to 1850s
2020s
11 covers · 5 of 12 printings say hardcover · 11 publishers, West Margin Press and Engage Classics among them · 3 languages
2010s
94 covers · 31 of 108 printings say paperback · 53 publishers, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform and Simon & Brown among them · 9 languages
2000s
90 covers · 42 of 95 printings say paperback · 72 publishers, ICON Group International, Inc. and ReadHowYouWant.com among them · 5 languages
1990s
42 covers · 14 of 45 printings say paperback · 30 publishers, Penguin Books and Tor Classics among them · 3 languages
1980s
10 covers · 4 of 10 printings say paperback · 8 publishers, Northwestern University Press and Bantam Classics among them · 2 languages
1970s
10 covers · 6 of 10 printings say paperback · 10 publishers, Bruguera and DAR AL KITAB ^ AL ARABI among them · 3 languages
1960s
11 covers · 11 publishers, Folkways Records & Service and Washington Square Press among them · 2 languages
1950s
7 covers · 7 publishers, McGraw-Hill Education and Arena-Vlg., Würzburg among them · 3 languages
1940s
2 covers · 2 publishers, Winston Co and Oxford University Press among them
1930s
1 cover · 1 publisher, Spencer Press
1920s
4 covers · 3 publishers, Dodd, Mead and company and Querido among them · 2 languages
1890s
3 covers · 1 publisher, United States Book Company
1850s
1 cover · 1 publisher, Harper & Brothers
No year on record
4 covers
Covers from Open Library, each in the decade of the earliest printing that carries it. What the catalogues never scanned is missing here too. See the whole wall.
