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Author additional ss Day & Son, printer.

Creator Gender unknown

Work Type chromolithograph

1. 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 / by Henry Noel Humphreys, author of the "Illuminated books of the Middle Ages," "The art of illumination," "Ancient coins and medals," etc. ; illustrated by a number of specimens of the writing of all ages, and a series of facsimiles from autograph letters from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century.

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 / by Henry Noel Humphreys, author of the "Illuminated books of the Middle Ages," "The art of illumination," "Ancient coins and medals," etc. ; illustrated by a number of specimens of the writing of all ages, and a series of facsimiles from autograph letters from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century.

Creator:: Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810–1879
Date:: MDCCCLIII [1853]
Physical Description:: viii, 176 pages, xxviii leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Aya Sofia, Constantinople : as recently restored by order of H.M. the Sultan Abdul-Medjid / from the original drawings by Chevalier Gaspard Fossati ; lithographed by Louis Haghe, Esq.

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Creator:: Fossati, Gaspare, 1809–1883
Date:: [1852]
Physical Description:: 6 pages, [1], 25 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 56 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Studies of ornamental design / by C.J. Richardson, M.R.I.B.A., F.S.A. ...

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Creator:: Richardson, C. J. (Charles James), 1806–1871
Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: [7] leaves, [20] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 60 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts