Title: The Origin and Progress of Writing, as well Hieroglyphic as Elementary Author: Astle, Thomas Place: London Publisher: J. White Date: 1803 Description: [7], xxiv, 240 pp. Portrait frontispiece; 32 engraved plates, many folding, several with hand coloring. (4to) 30x24 cm (11¾x9½") later half vellum and brown cloth, leather spine label lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. Second Edition. "It is a wide-ranging piece of scholarship, with excellent plates of facsimiles of scripts, engraved by B.T. Pouncy; universal in its scope, it includes a history of printing as well as accounts of the materials used for writing, numerals and the characters for numerals, and secret writing and ciphers.." (DNB). Lot Amendments Condition: Light wear and soiling to binding; light foxing; very good. Item number: 251235
Title: The Origin and Progress of Writing, as well Hieroglyphic as Elementary Author: Astle, Thomas Place: London Publisher: J. White Date: 1803 Description: [7], xxiv, 240 pp. Portrait frontispiece; 32 engraved plates, many folding, several with hand coloring. (4to) 30x24 cm (11¾x9½") later half vellum and brown cloth, leather spine label lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. Second Edition. "It is a wide-ranging piece of scholarship, with excellent plates of facsimiles of scripts, engraved by B.T. Pouncy; universal in its scope, it includes a history of printing as well as accounts of the materials used for writing, numerals and the characters for numerals, and secret writing and ciphers.." (DNB). Lot Amendments Condition: Light wear and soiling to binding; light foxing; very good. Item number: 251235
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