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.
Holdings:
Rare Books and ManuscriptsZ105 H92 1855+ Oversize
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.Printer statement from t.p verso."List of plates.": p. [2] at front.Errata: p. [2] at front.Color lithographs by H.N. Humphreys and printed by Day & Son. Plates not in color printed by P. Jerrard III, Fleet St.Plates V and XVIII (according to list of plates) are unnumbered. Plates XIV and XIVa are on the same leaf.Abbey, J.R. Life in England in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 224Includes bibliographical references.BAC: British Art Center copy is the Abbey copy.
Subject Terms:
Writing -- History. | Paleography. | Alphabets -- History.