The origin and progress of the art of writing : a connected narrative of the development of the art, in its primeval phases in Egypt, China, and Mexico : its middle state in the Cuneatic systems of Nineveh and Persepolis ... / by Henry Noel Humphreys ... ; 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.
Alternate Title(s):
Binder's title: Art of writing
Edition:
Second edition.
Published / Created:
London: : Day and Son, Gate Street, Lincoln's Inn, 1855
Physical Description:
vi, [2], 178 p., 28 [i.e. 30] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
The "Pictorial Writing of Mexico" is a copy of a print by Agostino Aglio of the Codex Mendoza, in Antiquities of Mexico, volume 1.
Subject Terms:
Writing -- History. | Paleography. | Alphabets -- History.