... When THE SATYRICON first appeared in the ML (spring 1929) it used the uniform typographic jacket that Henry calls Dj4. It then came out in the pictorial jacket by Robert Ball which to me suggests a homoerotic view of the work. The earliest example of the Ball jacket I've seen is from fall 1932. At some point Cerf and Klopfer appear to have decided that Ball's jacket was inappropriate, and they replaced it with a totally different pictorial jacket by the artist who signed his jackets "L." The second pictorial jacket is unambiguously heterosexual: it depicts a Roman orgy with two lusty men cavorting with five naked women. Placed side by side, the difference in sexual orientation in the two jackets is striking. The earliest orgy jacket I've seen is from fall 1936. I haven't identified the artist further, but he did a number of ML jackets; the period appears above the foot of the "L". When the ML introduced the Blumenthal binding, the pictorial jackets were superseded by a chaste nonpictorial jacket in which title, series, and torchbearer appear in reverse against a solid dark grayish blue background. This jacket was probably designed by Joseph Blumenthal. The earliest example of this jacket I've seen dates from spring 1954; it appears to have been used until THE SATYRICON was dropped from the series in 1957.