The original illustration ... The watercolor cover art was created by author and illustrator Thomas Taylor. The image features young wizard Harry Potter – with his unmistakable dark, brown ...

The original watercolor painting that was later used as the cover art for the first ever “Harry Potter” book shattered a franchise memorabilia record when it sold at Sotheby’s auction house ...

More than 500 million copies of the books have been sold in 80 languages An art handler holds Thomas Taylor’s original cover art for J.K. Rowling's “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone ...