CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE
Jean W. Ashton is director of Columbia University's
Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Johanna Drucker is a professor of art history at
Columbia University and an artist and printer; her book
From Sign to Symbol: The Alphabet in History and
hnagination will be published by Thames and Hudson
later this year.
Consuelo W. Dutschke has recently completed a
study of Marco Polo manuscripts and is currently cata¬
loguer for the NEH Plimpton Medieval Manuscripts
Cataloguing Project.
Richard Elman is the author of the recently published
novel Tar Beach and the book of poems Cathedral Tree
Train and Other Poems.
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Photography by Martin Messik
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