Root words
Subtitle: an alphabetic exploration
By: Lynne Avadenka ; in collaboration with Mohamed Zakariya
Contributors: Zakariya, Mohamed U., 1942- calligrapher; Land Marks Press
Publisher: Land Marks Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Huntington Woods, Mich.]
Language: eng
Translated from: ara; heb
Number of pages: 72
Subjects: Islamic calligraphy; Hebrew language; Writing; Arabic language; Hebrew Calligraphy
Other titles: Imagine a language
Notes: Title page, printed in black and blue, on inside cover of clamshell box; half-title on p. [1] of volume; colophon on inside back cover of box.

Artist's book consisting of 16 sheets mounted on heavy board, folded accordion-style, with smaller pamphlet-sewn quires at each of 7 folds, both recto and verso; each quire opens up to Arabic and Hebrew writing (on leaves, 21 cm.), corresponding roman transliteration and English translation (on leaves, 8 cm.); quotations on beginning and end pages of each quire; sewn in gold thread.

"The Arabic words are lettered in a style known as New Kufic, originally used in non-Quranic texts. ... The Hebrew words are lettered in a style inspired by Sofer Stam, used in writing sacred documents. ... The book is bound in a combination of concertina and pamphlet stitch binding."--Colophon.

Issued in gray-blue silk clamshell box with illustrated paper onlay on front cover; box is lined with light blue paper.

"Limited edition of 30"--Colophon.