Title from slipcase; The Hopeless Romantics' History of the World was devised in a day, left in a drawer for a year, resurrected in the spring, and printed in the summer of 1994. All research, illustration, presswork and binding by Maureen Cummins. Printed letterpress on Chiri Gampi Saitama, with illustrations from original woodblock prints, and handmade endpages by Dieu Donne. Printed in an edition of fifty --Colophon. Numbered and signed by M. Cummins;Accordian folded brown and black silk over boards brown silk slipcase with gilt title on spine;Rare Books has copy no. 6, signed by the artist, Signed by the artist
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