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The origin and progress of the art of writing : a connected narrative of the development of the art, its primeval phases in Egypt, China, Mexico, etc; its middle state in the cuneatic systems of Nineveh and Persepolis, to its introduction to Europe through the medium of the Hebrew, Phœnician, and Greek systems, and its subsequent progress to the present day
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- 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
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- English
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- London : Ingram, Cooke, and Co., 1853
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- viii, 176 pages, xxviii leaves of plates (some color) : illustrations ; 26 cm
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- ocm02558044
- Decorative covers of gutta-percha moulded to form a capital T with the rest of the title.
- Contains 13 plates chromolithographed by Day & Son; 15 uncoloured plates printed by Paul Jerrard.
- "Printed by Robson, Levey, and Franklyn"--t.p. verso.
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