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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.Drucker, Johanna is the author of 'Alphabetic Labyrinth' with ISBN 9780500016084 and ISBN 0500016089.
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