A History of Writing. From Hieroglyph to Multimedia.
Flammarion, (2002),
First English language edition. large quarto, grey boards in dust jacket. (405) pp. Flammarion, Item #22684
A total of fifty-eight lavishly illustrated chapters that analyze the role of the image in the history of writing, with detailed commentaries from a team of leading specialists. Together they explain the evolution of more than 30 key scripts and alphabets and their numerous derivatives. The scope of the material, along with extensive documentation make this an essential contribution to existing scholarship on this fascinating subject. The first section is devoted to the oldest, non-alphabetic methods of writing; second section focuses on the history and dissemination of alphabets; the third and final section examines the reincorporation of imagery into the Western alphabet. Extensively illustrated. A very fine, clean copy.
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