A method of producing an image display device in which an image display member and a light-transmitting cover member having a principal surface portion and a circumferential edge portion on which a light-shielding layer is formed with a step portion formed between the principal surface portion and the circumferential edge portion are laminated through a light-transmitting resin layer formed from a liquid optical resin composition so that a light-shielding layer-formed surface of the light-transmitting cover member is arranged to face the image display member , wherein the light cover member has a length and a width in a length direction and a width direction respectively, the method comprising: forming the light-shielding layer on the circumferential edge portion such that the step portion is thereby formed between the light-shielding layer and the principal surface portion ; moving a resin dispenser from one end of the light-shielding layer-formed surface of the light-transmitting cover member toward the other end thereof in a lengthwise direction of the light transmitting cover member to apply the liquid optical resin composition to the principal surface portion and to the light-shielding layer-formed surface of the light-transmitting cover member from the one end of the light-shielding layer-formed surface toward the other end of the light-shielding layer-formed surface; laminating the light-shielding layer-formed surface of the light-transmitting cover member to the image display member ; and curing the optical resin composition held between the image display member and the light-transmitting cover member , wherein the resin dispenser applies a different amount of the optical resin composition on the light-shielding layer and on the principal surface portion of the light-shielding layer-formed surface of the light-transmitting cover member so that the optical resin composition has the same height on the light shielding layer and on the principal surface portion and an even coated surface of the optical resin composition is formed over the light-transmitting cover member in its lengthwise direction. forming the light-shielding layer on the circumferential edge portion such that the step portion is thereby formed between the light-shielding layer and the principal surface portion ; moving a resin dispenser from one end of the light-shielding layer-formed surface of the light-transmitting cover member toward the other end thereof in a lengthwise direction of the light transmitting cover member to apply the liquid optical resin composition to the principal surface portion and to the light-shielding layer-formed surface of the light-transmitting cover member from the one end of the light-shielding layer-formed surface toward the other end of the light-shielding layer-formed surface; laminating the light-shielding layer-formed surface of the light-transmitting cover member to the image display member ; and curing the optical resin composition held between the image display member and the light-transmitting cover member , wherein the resin dispenser applies a different amount of the optical resin composition on the light-shielding layer and on the principal surface portion of the light-shielding layer-formed surface of the light-transmitting cover member so that the optical resin composition has the same height on the light shielding layer and on the principal surface portion and an even coated surface of the optical resin composition is formed over the light-transmitting cover member in its lengthwise direction. <EOS>