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The typeface of four words, Abus, Sera, Tout, Puni printed as permutations increases in size and then decreases on each successive page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The typeface becomes progressively smaller from front to back of the book giving a greater density and layering to the text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The type becomes progressively smaller on each page so that more words appear. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The text evolves page by page from pale gray to white on black ground to disintegrated letters replaced by abstract markings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This publication is the last from John Crombie and Kickshaws because of "waning stamina and resources... The book is a stream of type carrying its cargo of verbal flotsam past occasional islands, meandering between the figure-incrusted embankments." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Words relating to love are hidden in varied lines of letters with differing size and style typefaces. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Written by Cami, a popular French humorist and writer, this tale was translated by Crombie and illustrated by Bourne. Stored in Crobie box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Printed in a handful of copies by John Crombie from "battered and corroded Verona type salvaged in extrimis from a Glasgow printery before it is put out of its misery and junked, mercifully, as scrap metal." Stored in Crombie box or on shelf under Peret. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Based on Ludwig Wittgenstein's "Tractatus." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.