Sorting these covers by decade
North and South by decade
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
24 covers from 31 printings with a known year, 2000s back to 1850s
2000s
10 covers · 10 of 15 printings say paperback · 9 publishers, IndyPublish.com and BiblioBazaar among them
1990s
5 covers · 5 publishers, Penguin and Penguin Group UK among them
1980s
1 cover · 1 publisher, Oxford University Press
1970s
3 covers · 4 publishers, Penguin and J.M. Dent among them
1930s
1 cover · 2 publishers, Hard Press and Oxford University Press among them
1890s
1 cover · 1 publisher, Scott
1850s
3 covers · 2 publishers, Harper and Chapman and Hall among them
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.