Key Background. The request to create the first ever Harry Potter cover art was offered to Taylor when he was working in a children's bookstore by Bloomsbury Publishing and was the artist's first ...

The watercolor cover art for the first edition of “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” was painted in 1996 by a recent art school graduate from Britain who was working at a bookstore.

The Original ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’ Cover Art Could Fetch $600k at Auction Thomas Taylor's watercolor is set to become the most valuable item connected to the iconic book ...

The original illustration for the first edition of J.K. Rowling’s 1997 novel “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” has sold for a record-breaking $1.9 million.

The films: Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe), Hermione Granger (Emma Watson) and Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint) (2009 Warner Bros. Ent, Harry Potter Publishing Rights J.K.R) ...

A first edition copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was the previous record-holder.It sold for $421,000 at Heritage Auctions in Dallas in 2021. Taylor’s illustration sold for ...

The first three, which cover the "Golden Trio" of Harry, Ron, and Hermione, are et to be released by Bloomsbury Childrens' Books in 2025, "with even more fun to come in 2026 and beyond." ...

Bloomsbury reissued Philosopher's Stone as part of its 25th anniversary commemorative reprint of the Harry Potter books in 2022. But Taylor said he long had mixed feelings about this early, giant ...