An essay on the original of literature
By: Daniel Defoe.
Publisher: Owlworks
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Baltimore, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 88
ISBN-13: 9781934084021
Subjects: Writing -- History -- Early works to 1800; Alphabet -- History -- Early works to 1800; Hebrew language -- Alphabet
Genres: Early works to 1800
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [87]-88).

Originally published : London : T. Bowles, 1726, under title: An essay upon literature, or, An enquiry into the antiquity and original of letters; proving that the two tables, written by the finger of God at Mount Sinai, was the first writing in the world; and that all other alphabets derive from the Hebrew...