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Typography

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

a. to make like new / Black, Leda., 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-33066-34691
Scope and Contents

This is a receipt of a subscription to PLL issues #9-12. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

As in Queen (The Abecedarirum of a Typophiliac) / Black, Leda., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-28819-30137
Scope and Contents

By spreading open the cover one can read the following: "lay open this book - and you will see - typophilia - undisguised - a quaint affliction - illustrated - by mesostich - paeans to - the queen of letters." Each double opened page is printed with a different font of the letter Q and with a large stylized reproduction of part of the font. A mesostic poem on each page contains the name of the 27 typefaces, in alphabetical order, used for the letter Q, e.g., anna, bookman, castellar, didot, eva, felix, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Physical Language Laboratory: An Obscure Object. No.9 / Leda Black., 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-33099-34724
Scope and Contents

Each card contains a single letter of the word, HOME, in different typefaces with a cryptic feminist phrase. The cards are attached by string to form a vertical row . -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

The Sense of Nonsense / Black, Leda., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-21949-22361
Scope and Contents

This book was printed at Mill College. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987