
            Aureole to Zingaresca
An Exotic Alphabet Book
            By Maureen Cummins
New York: Center for Book Arts, 1994. Edition of 50.
            8.5 x 12.5"; 24 pages. Loose cover wrappers unfold outward to display whole title. Printed in multicolors on thick hand-made papers with woodblocks and wood-type initial caps. Type set in Century Schoolbook. Hand-sewn binding with paper wrapper. Designed, printed, and illustrated by Maureen Cummins.
            Letterpress dictionary of unusual words, with color woodcut illustrations. 
            "kalopsia - condition in which things appear more beautiful than they really are."
  "paphian - illicitly erotic."
  "spoony - foolishly amorous." 
              $ 500 (SOLD)