Agricultural publisher, Orange Judd, lived from 1822-1892. He started out as the editor of an agricultural journal and expanded from there to establishing himself and his New York firm as a major publisher of agricultural books and journals. Prior to the 1870's the most dominant influence on book cover design was the engraver. In the 1870's and beyond, the publisher became the major influence. Orange Judd, with his emphasis on plain but distinctive design, is a prime example of such a publisher, in spite of the sometimes less than elegant subject matter of his publications. His firm flourished well into the twentieth century, but the late nineteenth-century examples from the Library of Michigan's collections shown here, reflect the design qualities for which he is best known and most remembered.