The origin and progress of the art of writing: a connected narrative of the development of the art, its primeval phases in Egypt, China, Mexico, etc; its middle state in the cuneatic systems of Nineveh and Persepolis, to its introduction to Europe through the medium of the Hebrew, Phœnician, and Greek systems, and its subsequent progress to the present day.

Date:

1853.

Author:

Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810-1879.

Collecting Area:

Rare Books

Publisher:

Ingram, Cooke

Physical Description:

viii, 176 pages xxviii plates (some color including color frontispiece) 26 cm

Notes:

Spine title: History of writing.

Subjects:

Writing History, Paleography, Writing history, Paleography, Paleography, and Writing

Genres/Forms:

Bindings, Papier mâché bindings. aat, History, and Bookplates. rbbin