This past week, Sotheby's announced the auction scheduled for June 26 in New York of Thomas Taylor's original watercolor illustration for the first edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.

(CNN) — J.K. Rowling’s 1997 novel “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” was the beginning of what would become a worldwide phenomenon. Now, the original illustration for the first edition of the ...

The watercolor illustration by Thomas Taylor was featured on the first edition of the novel in 1997. Courtesy Sotheby's In the 1990s, Thomas Taylor, a recent art school graduate, was working at a ...

The watercolor cover art for the first edition of “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” was painted in 1996 by a recent art school graduate from Britain who was working at a bookstore. By John ...

The original illustration for the cover of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone will go to auction in June. Sotheby's When 23-year-old Thomas Taylor was commissioned to create the cover art for a ...

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A watercolor for the cover of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (1997), the first book in the smash hit series, sold for more than three times its estimate at Sotheby’s on Wednesday, fetching ...