Subject: Writing › History

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Books under this subject

• Lost Languages by Andrew Robinson (263 copies)
• Medieval Calligraphy: Its History and Technique by Marc Drogin (244 copies)
• The Story of Writing by Andrew Robinson (227 copies)
• Writing: The Story of Alphabets and Scripts by Georges Jean (208 copies)
• The 26 letters by Oscar Ogg (99 copies)
• Mysteries of the Alphabet: The Origins of Writing by Marc-Alain Ouaknin (88 copies)
• History of Writing (Reaktion Books - Globalities) by Steven Roger Fischer (81 copies)
• Reading the Past..ancient Writing from Cuneiform to the… by J.T. Hooker (77 copies)
• Forgotten Scripts: Their Ongoing Discovery and Decipherment by Cyrus H. Gordon (75 copies)
• Extinct Languages by Johannes Friedrich (73 copies)
• The History and Power of Writing by Henri-Jean Martin (69 copies)
• Writing Systems: A Linguistic Introduction by Geoffrey Sampson (64 copies)
• Voices in Stone by Ernst Doblhofer (58 copies)
• The Alphabet Effect: The Impact of the Phonetic Alphabet on… by Robert K. Logan (55 copies)
• The Writing Systems of the World (Language Library) by Florian Coulmas (55 copies)
• The Story of Decipherment: From Egyptian Hieroglyphs to… by Maurice Pope (54 copies)
• A History of Writing by Albertine Gaur (53 copies)
• The Story of Writing by Donald Jackson (47 copies)
• A Study of Writing by Ignace J. Gelb (46 copies)
• The Logic of Writing and the Organization of Society by Jack Goody (44 copies)
• The Solid Form Of Language: An Essay On Writing And Meaning by Robert Bringhurst (41 copies)
• The Birth of Writing by Robert Claiborne (40 copies)
• Ancient Writing and its Influence by B. L. Ullman (38 copies)
• The British Library Guide to Writing and Scripts: History… by Michelle P. Brown (29 copies)
• How Writing Came About by Denise Schmandt-Besserat (26 copies)
• The Early Alphabet (Reading the Past) by John F. Healey (25 copies)
• Scribes, Script, and Books: The Book Arts from Antiquity to… by Leila Avrin (25 copies)
• The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy,… by Walter Mignolo (24 copies)
• The alphabet: a key to the history of mankind by David Diringer (19 copies)
• Letters by James Hutchinson (19 copies)
• Pen, Ink, and Evidence: A Study of Writing and Writing… by Joe Nickell (18 copies)
• The student's guide to Western calligraphy : an illustrated… by Joyce Irene Whalley (17 copies)
• Sign, Symbol, Script: An Exhibition on the Origins of… by Hans Jensen (16 copies)
• The Origins of writing by Wayne M. Senner (13 copies)
• A guide to seventeenth-century Virginia court handwriting… by Kent P. Bailey (13 copies)
• Explicatio formarum litterarum: The unfolding of… by Rutherford Aris (11 copies)
• The story of archaeological decipherment: From Egyptian… by Maurice Pope (11 copies)
• Papieren geheugen : boek en schrift in de westerse wereld by P. Schneiders (11 copies)
• My dear runemeister: A voyage through the alphabet by Lloyd J. Reynolds (10 copies)
• Writing Without Words: Alternative Literacies in… by Elizabeth Hill Boone (9 copies)
• Personalities of language by Gary Jennings (9 copies)
• Reading the Past by Leonard Eric Cottrell (8 copies)
• The Invention of Cuneiform: Writing in Sumer by Jean-Jacques Glassner (8 copies)
• Thirty Centuries of Graphic Design: An Illustrated Survey by James Craig (8 copies)
• Das Buch der Schrift, enthaltend die Schriftzeichen und… by Carl Faulmann (7 copies)
• Story of Handwriting: Origins and Development by Alfred J. Fairbank (7 copies)
• Skrift : de olika skriftsystemen och deras utveckling by David Diringer (7 copies)
• How Our Alphabet Grew: The History of the Alphabet by William Dugan (6 copies)
• Before writing by Denise Schmandt-Besserat (6 copies)
• The Story of the Alphabet by Edward Clodd (6 copies)

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