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Sylvia Plath. Ariel. London: Faber & Faber, 1965
"In March 1965, Ariel appeared under the Faber imprint. Ted Hughes wanted to be involved not only in the selection of poems, but also in the design of the book. He asked for a red dustjacket, with a reference to the theme of the title poem Ariel (a horseman riding into the sunrise). The print had to be big and preferably black, like the print of The Hawk in the Rain. But the Faber designer, Berthold Wolpe, paid little attention to Hughes’s suggestions. He refused to use a drawing of a horseman on the wrapper, and the only concession he made was to use some of the colours that Hughes had suggested. After receiving a copy of the dustjacket, Ted Hughes wrote to Charles Monteith that it was “a bit of a shock.”"
Lise Jaillant. Women poets, male publishers: myth vs. market in post-1960s Britain. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025 (p. 167)