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The Hand-Produced Book by David Diringer

The Hand-Produced Book by David Diringer

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The Hand-Produced Book by David Diringer.

 Copyright not stated - first published 1953 by Hutchinson's Scientific and Technical Publications. - 603 pages - indexed.

"The present work is...a history of the devepopment of writing. In chapter I- the Book in Embryo traces from early cave paintings through the earliest known clay tablets of Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt. Chapter II is the Earliest Systems of Writing and Chapter III discusses in detail Clay Tablet Books. Chapter IV is Papyrus Books and Chapter V is From Leather to Parchment. Chapter VI is Greek and Latin Book Production. Chapters VIII and IX discuss Outlying Regions consisting of Ancient Middle East, Central and Southern Asia, Far East, and Pre-Columbian America. Chapter X is Anglo-Celtic Contributions to the Development of the Medieval Book and a Conclusion - the Fate of Books. Chapter Xi is an Appendix of Inks, Pens, and Other Writing Tools Plus a General Bibliography and Index. More than one hundred black and white photographs of knot-reords, notched sticks, wooden tablets, diptychs, bamboo book, linen, whale bone, cuneiform, hieroglyphics, Chinese, Maya and Aztec symbols, Cherokee syllabary, and much, much more.

Condition: Withdrawn from the National Geographic Society Library - card pocket, book plate, neat imprint title page, neat withdrawn stamp. Well cared for book with no marks of any kind to the text or illustrations.Overall condition is fine.

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