Visible Language (The Journal of Typographic Research), Vol 03, 03, July 1969

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Content includes:
Mallarmé: The Transcendence of Language and the Aesthetics of the Book, Gerald L. Bruns
0 or 0? Dirk Wendt
A Proposed Fontstyle for the Graphic Representation of the Oh and Zero, Allen G. Vartabedian
Use of Type Damage as Evidence in
Bibliographical Description, G. Thomas Tanselle
A Report Generator Approach to Automated Page Composition, J. R. Burns
Comment: Marshall McLuhan and Italic Handwriting, Lloyd J. Reynolds
Comment: Publishing by Computer, R. J. Wakefield
Letterforms in the Arts, Jack Smith and Rudolf Franke
Excerpt: Typography That Makes the Reader Work, Joel A Roth

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Visible Language (The Journal of Typographic Research, Vol 03, 03, July 1969
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