This book is an encyclopedia and has for each new edition been revised and substantially enlarged. Its first English language edition was published in 1991 in the US with the title Dictionary of Symbols . In 1989 appeared CGL s book for children about Western ideograms with a title whose English language equivalent would be Signs with meaning . Its 75 folio pages present the 220 most important of those Western ideograms which children should know about at an early age. Knowledge of some of these signs are of life and death importance.
Examples are the signs for high voltage current, poison, emergency exit and radioactivity.
This book has not yet been published in any other language than Swedish. In 1991 CGL wrote and published a book about the art of translating books. Its title was the Swedish equivalent of How to translate books . Since the book only concerned translating to the Swedish language it has never been published elsewhere. Apart from the books written by Carl G Liungman there is also a manuscript that CGL received by mail in the spring of 1975.