Andy Jackson wrote:
>Hi Candice,
>
>I'm enjoying this discussion, being a typo-nut myself. The fleuron
>has come to look rather antique these days with respect to poetry,
>a hangover from the days of marbled end-papers . . . although
>there are some modern examples: W.S. Merwin's 'Second Four
>Books of Poems' has a huge beetle-sized fleuron gracing the
>spine . . . the title-page of Hill's 'The Triumph of Love' has a little row
>of them . . .
And doesn't Nate Dorward ornament _The Gig_ with it? (Hey, Nate,
you out there?)
As for your being a fellow "typo-nut," Andy, don't you mean a typoen?
Grafikly yers,
Candice
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