history of the art of writing
By: by William A. Mason.
Publisher: MacMillan
Published: 1920
Place of publication: New York
Subjects: Writing -- History; Hieroglyphics; Picture-writing; Cuneiform writing
Table of contents: title: Evidences of ideography in our written language; title: Primitive picture writing; title: Picture writing of the North American Indians; title: Picture writing of the ancient Mexicans; title: Hieroglyphic writing of the South Sea islanders; title: Chinese ideographic writing; title: Hieroglyphic writing of the ancient Egyptians; title: Babylonian and Assyrian cuneiform writing; title: The hieroglyphic system of writing of the Phoenicians; title: Pre-Phoenician syllabaries and Mediterranean script; title: The Greek alphabet; title: The Roman alphabet; title: Writing in the Middle Ages; title: European alphabets derived from the Greek; title: The age of printing.