“Though it feels like a modern appendix to our ancient alphabet, the ampersand is considerably older than many of the letters that we use today. By the time the letter W entered the Latin alphabet in the seventh century, ampersands had enjoyed six hundred years of continuous use…” There, that’s already ten times more than you knew about the character before.

Beautiful — really, it’s gorgeous — small press book that lovingly tours twelve of Tokyo’s galleries. A steal at US$30.

Suggest queries for their joint appearance at next week’s How Conference.