I think this chunky paperback was originally conceived as a box of cards. The paper is postcard thick and captions for each cover are on the following page, if it was a conventional book the paper would have been thinner and the captions on the left-hand pages opposite the covers. The Economist, like other publications, used type only on the cover for decades, the first graphic design in the book is from December 24, 1960 (the white on red logo arrived in 1959).
Mostly the covers are very clever graphic solutions to sum up something in the news, the odd ones out are those that use a stock color photo to tie in with a telling headline. Unlike many weeklies the Economist doesn't necessarily have to have an eye-grabbing cover, subscription sales far exceed those from newsstands.
The pages are thick enough to be easily removed from the book if you wanted to make a framed collage of covers
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