Alice Cordelia Morse (June 1, 1863 – July 15, 1961) was an American designer of book covers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Morse began her career by working with two well-known stained glass artists of the day, first John La Farge[7] and then Louis Comfort Tiffany.

In the period from 1887 to 1905, Morse designed approximately eighty-one book covers,[12]: 523  many of which were for major New York publishers such as Houghton Mifflin, Charles Scribner's Sons, Harper & Brothers, G.P.

[4][13] She designed covers for various types of books, including novels, plays, poetry, art history, travel literature, children's stories, and domestic handbooks and instructional manuals.

[12]: 27–38  Some of these were for famous authors, including Amelia Barr, Lafcadio Hearn, William Dean Howells, Thomas Nelson Page, and Oscar Wilde.

[11] True to the Arts and Crafts aesthetic, Morse's cover designs feature highly stylized patterns of organic forms like leaves and flowers.

[12]: 70  She also held that women were the best designers because their "intuitive sense of decoration, their feeling for beauty of line and harmony of color insures a high degree of success".

[4][16][17][18][19]: 53–54 [20] She is today considered one of the top three book designers of the era, along with Margaret Neilson Armstrong and Sarah W. Whitman,[21][1][22] and some place her as the best in this group.

[24]: 14, 184–185  The main goal of this project was to create exhibitions illustrating women's contributions to art, industry, sciences, social reforms, and philanthropic work.

[4] She also created the cover for the Distaff Series, which was a set of six books written, designed, and typeset by women, published by Harper & Brothers, and sold in the Woman's Building.

[19]: 95  Morse was offered her final position in 1917 as district director of all art and drawing programs in both elementary and high schools across the area.