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The Love of Letters “A love of letters is the beginning of ty- pographical wisdom. That is, the love of letters as literature and the love of letters as physical entities, having ab- stract beauty of their own, apart from the ideas they may express or the emo- tions they may evoke.” —John R. Biggs

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The Love of Letters“A love of letters is the beginning of ty-pographical wisdom. That is, the love of letters as literature and the love of letters as physical entities, having ab-stract beauty of their own, apart from the ideas they may express or the emo-tions they may evoke.” —John R. Biggs

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The Love of Lettersby John R.

Biggs

“A love of letters is the beginning of typo-graphical wisdom. That is, the love of letters

as literature and the love of letters as physical entities, having abstract beauty of their own,

apart from the ideas they may express or the emotions they may evoke.”

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The Love of

Le t te r sby John R. Biggs

“A love of letters is the beginning of typographical wisdom. That is, the love of letters as liter-ature and the love of letters as physical entities, having abstract beauty of their own, apart from the ideas they may express or the emotions they may evoke.”

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“A love of letters is the beginning of typographical wisdom. That is, the love of letters as literature and the love of letters as physical entities, having abstract beauty of their own, apart from the ideas they may express or the emotions they may evoke.”

The Love of Letters by John R. Biggs

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“A love of letters is the be-ginning of typographical wis-dom. That is, the love of let-ters as literature and the love of letters as physical enti-ties, having abstract beauty of their own, apart from the ideas they may express or the emotions they may evoke.”

The Love of Letters

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“A love of letters is the beginning of ty-pographical wisdom. That is, the love of letters as literature

and the love of letters as physical entities,

having abstract beau-ty of their own, apart from the ideas they may express or the emotions they may

evoke.”

The Love of Letters

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“A love of letters is the beginning of typo-graphical wisdom. That is, the love of let-ters as literature and the love of letters as physical entities, having abstract beauty of their own, apart from the ideas they may express or the emotions they may evoke.”

—John R. Biggs

The Love of Letters

by John R. Biggs

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“A love of letters is the beginning of typographical

wisdom. That is, the love of letters as liter-ature and the

love of letters as physical entities, having abstract beauty of their

own, apart from the ideas they may express or the emotions

they may evoke.”

The Love of

Letters

by John R. Biggs

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The Love of Letters

by John R. Biggs

“A love of letters is the beginning of typographical wisdom. That is, the love of letters as literature and the love of letters as physical entities, having abstract beauty of their own, apart from the ideas they may express or the

emotions they may evoke.” —John R. Biggs

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“A love of letters is the beginning of typographical wisdom. That is, the love of letters as literature and the love of letters as physical entities, having abstract beauty of their own, apart from the ideas they may express or the emotions they may

evoke.” —John R. Biggs