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The alphabetic labyrinth : the letters in history and imagination / Johanna Drucker.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection P211 .D78 1995
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Drucker, Johanna, 1952-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Alphabet--History.
- Alphabet.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 320 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Thames and Hudson, [1995]
- Summary:
- Johanna Drucker has spent many years researching writing and typography; this book is the result of a lifetime's interest. In it she examines the many imaginative, often idiosyncratic ways in which the letters of the alphabet have been assigned value in political, spiritual, or religious belief systems over two millennia--as well as presenting the more general aspects of the history of lettering, printing and calligraphy.
- Notes:
- Bibliography: pages 312-315.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0500016089
- OCLC:
- 32698774
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