House of Niccolo Book Covers

The Niccolo covers are much simpler in number and publisher as, being written later, they missed most of the moves that affected the Lymond Chronicles.

There are just a couple missing so if anyone has a copy of any of them then please get in touch and see if we can scan or photograph them to complete the collections.

Knopf Hardbacks

These are perhaps the most lavish covers of all, particularly the vols 3-5 which are very impressive with the cover pictures wrapping round to the back. I've never seen the final two volumes so if anyone has these I'd love to hear from you.

Niccolo Rising

Spring of the Ram

Race of Scorpions

Scales of Gold

Unicorn Hunt

To Lie With Lions

Caprice and Rondo

Gemini

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Michael Joseph hardbacks and trade paperbacks and some early Penguin editions

These mostly shared the same covers although in some cases the Penguin versions were slightly zoomed in compared to the MJ hardbacks. However there were some variations - for instance Scales of Gold seems to have had two completely different covers and one variation, while there was a "Special Collectors edition" of Spring of the Ram with a ribbon bookmark and gilded edges to the pages, which had a different cover..

Niccolo Rising

Spring of the Ram

Race of Scorpions

Scales of Gold

Unicorn Hunt

To Lie With Lions

Caprice and Rondo

Gemini

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Penguin paperbacks - middle editions

These were the small format editions. The pictures were quite finely detailed and I always felt that they were rather wasted by being reduced to the small size of the paperbacks.

Niccolo Rising

Spring of the Ram

Race of Scorpions

Scales of Gold

Unicorn Hunt

To Lie With Lions

Caprice and Rondo

Gemini was never produced in this series as the new editions were announced before it came out

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Penguin paperbacks - later editions

Niccolo Rising

Cover painting - View of a Market Place by Hendrik Steenwyck (1550-1603)

Spring of the Ram

A Sultan Receiving Tribute by Giovanni Antonio Guardi (1699-1760)

Race of Scorpions

detail from View of Naples depicting the Araganese fleet re-entering the port after the Battle of Ischia in 1442, attributed to Francesco Rosselli (1445-c1513)