How is culture depicted in cover art? In answering this complex question are two widely available editions of Tolstoy’s War and Peace, one from 1996 and another from 2002. With inspiration from Blackmore’s (2020) paper, “Full Paper Jacket: Vietnam Book Cover Art,” this paper acknowledges how the translation studies field has neglected cover art’s role in new editions/translations of a work. Throughout this research, a typical case study methodology, in addition to George Saltzer’s “Jacket Types,” and Maslow’s 1954 Hierarchy of Needs, helps carefully analyze the question, leading to the conclusion that there is a connection between cover art and culture, primarily in the way covers broadly depict cultural themes of the work and the culture of the time of republishing. This connection is explained further through a discussion on the cover’s physical description and color, the original designer’s context, and the context of the time these republished works occurred. Further research should explore more examples of cover art within and beyond the “classics” genre to see if these conclusions are more unviersal or dependent on certain factors.