Alphabetical order : how the alphabet began / Tiphaine Samoyault
- Author:
- Samoyault, Tiphaine
- Uniform Title:
- Monde des alphabets. English
- Additional Titles:
- How the alphabet began
- Published:
- New York : Viking, 1998.
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
- Additional Creators:
- Hopkins, Lee Bennett and Viking Press
- Contents:
- What is an alphabet? -- Writing and alphabets -- A family tree of the world's alphabets -- The world's alphabets (including Arabic, Hebrew, Japanese, Indian (Devanagari), Greek, Latin, and modern Cyrillic) -- Calligraphy -- Typography -- Other alphabets (including flags, semaphores, Morse code, sign language alphabet, and Braille alphabet) -- Artists and alphabets.
- Summary:
- Discusses the development of alphabets and writing systems from ancient societies to American Indian societies.
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- ISBN:
- 0670878081
9780670878086 - Collection:
- Lee Bennett Hopkins Collection.
- Note:
- "English translation first published in 1998 in the United States of America by Viking, a member of Penguin Putnam Inc."--Verso of title-page.
Rare Books copy: (1st printing--number line beginning with "1" on verso of title-page); in publisher's glossy color pictorial boards and original dust jacket; - Source of Acquisition:
- Rare Books copy: Gift of Lee Bennett Hopkins.
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