Stephane Mallarmé’s "A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance" is one of the most influential works in the history of French literature. Celebrated for its enigmatic nature, the Symbolist poem evokes the imagery of shipwreck and stars, and reflects on the ideas of transcendence and chance. Equally notable is the poem’s innovative typographic layout. Mallarmé literally and figuratively transformed the experience of reading his last major poem by varying the use of lowercase and capital letters, the size of font, and especially the placementof sequences of words on the white pages. At the time of his death, Mallarmé was planning an edition of "A Throw of the Dice" with publisher Ambroise Vollard and French artist Odilon Redon. Although never realized, Mallarmé’s specific revisions to the final proofs served as a model for the design of this 1914 edition.