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  • Cover artwork for Love’s Labour’s Lost in the Fifth Folio edition featuring folio typography and text from a correspondence within the play.
  • Cover artwork for Love’s Labour’s Lost in the Fifth Folio edition featuring Armado and Moth in playful dialogue layered over the luminous silhouette of a moth illuminated against abstract shifting light and color.
  • A passage from Love’s Labour’s Lost imagining ambition large enough for “whole volumes in folio,” set against a portrait painted and inscribed to the editor by Antoun Bittar in 1969. The image became less illustration than invocation: a private family object unexpectedly answering the scale of the work itself.
  • Cover artwork for Love’s Labour’s Lost in the Fifth Folio edition featuring the comic exchange surrounding the absurdly long word “honorificabilitudinitatibus” layered over an expressive portrait painting by Antoun Bittar rendered in vivid brushwork and exaggerated facial detail.
  • Shakespeare *Love’s Labour’s Lost* text describing masked courtship and Muscovite disguises, overlaid on a dreamlike painting of an androgynous figure reclining on a swing within an oval frame against a striped lavender background.
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Love’s Labour’s Lost

Love’s Labour’s Lost

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Cover artwork for Love’s Labour’s Lost in the Fifth Folio edition featuring folio typography and text from a correspondence within the play.

LOVES LABOUR'S lost.


paintings above (Erik Hoffer Longshoreman Philosopher, for Gregory Bittar, 1969) and (undated) below by Antoun

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