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Non-free / fair use media rationale for Shavian alphabet
Description	Cover image of The Shaw Alphabet Edition of Androcles and the Lion, by George Bernard Shaw. 1962 Penguin Books paperback, cover design by Germano Facetti.
Source	Scanned from my own copy of the book.
Article	Shavian alphabet
Portion used	Front cover of the book.
Low resolution?	It has an intrusive price sticker on the cover. That can't possibly help with counterfeiting.
Purpose of use	To illustrate the article on the Shaw Alphabet, which is depicted as part of the cover design, and furthermore incorporates a picture of the play's author George Bernard Shaw, who requested in his will that Androcles and the Lion be the first book printed in the alphabet named after him.
Replaceable?	Only this one book was ever printed in the Shaw alphabet. It has never been reprinted since its low original print run and the alphabet has for the most part remained unused since. While the Shaw alphabet is now a part of Unicode and there are free fonts available, a simple sample text would not have the same historical and educational value as the cover of this book.

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Cover image of The Shaw Alphabet Edition of Androcles and the Lion, by George Bernard Shaw. 1962 Penguin Books paperback, cover design by Germano Facetti. Scanned from my own copy of the book.

This image is of a book cover, and the copyright for it is most likely owned either by the artist who created the cover or the publisher of the book. It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of book covers

to illustrate an article discussing the book in question
on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation,

qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. Other use of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, might be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content for more information.

To the uploader: please add a detailed fair use rationale for each use, as described on Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline, as well as the source of the work and copyright information. Please include in your fair use rationale details of the particular edition (publisher, market & year of publication) of the edition you have used, and also acknowledge any cover artist if such artist is acknowledged in that edition's frontmatter. If the book cover is in the public domain (see Wikipedia:Public domain), then use the appropriate public domain tag rather than this one.

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current	02:01, 22 February 2007	652×1,065 (699 KB)	Alexander the Drake (Talk \| contribs)	(Cover image of The Shaw Alphabet Edition of Androcles and the Lion, 1962 Penguin Books paperback. Scanned from my own copy. {{book cover \| Title = The Shaw Alphabet Edition of Androcles and the Lion}})