Order Nr. 140455 THE STORY OF WRITING, FROM CAVE ART TO COMPUTER. William Cahn.

THE STORY OF WRITING, FROM CAVE ART TO COMPUTER.

  • Irvington-on-Hudson: Harvey House, Inc., 1963.
  • large 8vo
  • cloth
  • 128 pages, with 4 additional pages of plates.
  • ISBN: none

Price: $20.00  other currencies

Order Nr. 140455

First edition. Lacking the dust jacket, else a very good copy. An introductory work for young readers on the history of writing: pre-alphabetic systems, alphabets and syllabaries, numerals, writing implements, the invention of printing, and machine writing (typewriter, typesetting machines, computers). With many black and white illustrations.