A movie adaptation is rarely the first time someone gets to give a visual representation of a book. It is usually the cover illustrator who gets the job to draw how he thinks the story should look.

However, as soon as a book is turned into a movie, the illustrator's work is usually thrown in the bin only to be quickly replaced by a "you've seen the movie... now read the book" approximation of the movie poster as a cover. But what about these early visualisations of the story : can you recognise the story from how the illustrators of the early editions thought they should look?

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