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Design Category
Book design, 1998
Design firm
Houghton Mifflin Company (Boston, Massachusetts)
Collection
(1999) 50 Books/50 Covers of 1998

Description

For this memoir of a Southern girl’s romantic education, the painting and “aged” background on the cover were used to suggest the author’s affinity with Casanova.

Credits
Art director/designer: Michaela Sullivan
Illustrator: William Dyce
Typeface: Perpetua
Printer: Henry Sawyer Company
Paper: Lustro Gloss 80# Coated
Author: Shirley Abbott
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company