Book Covers

[houyhnhnm102]

No: HPFGUIDX 166677

yutu75es" <fridwulfa at ...> wrote:

> No one seems to have noticed the strange desing on 
> the spine of the British cover, over the title. It 
> seems like an arrow, a circle and a triangle. Any 
> theories about what it might be/mean/represent??

houyhnhnm:

If you rotate the alchemical symbol for salt 90 degrees and 
superimpose it on the symbol for aqua vitae, then flip the entire 
image vertically, you get . . . cooking sherry!!! (I couldn't resist). 
You get the symbol seen at the top of the spine on the UK dust jacket 
design.

I think it's supposed to look alchemical.  The symbols for the four 
elements are all triangles.