Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810-1879, The origin and progress of the art of writing , 1855
- Title(s):
The origin and progress of the art of writing : a connected narrative of the development of the art, in its primeval phases in Egypt, China, and Mexico : its middle state in the Cuneatic systems of Nineveh and Persepolis ... / 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.
- Additional Title(s):
Binder's title: Art of writing
History of writing
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Published/Created:
- London: : Day and Son, Gate Street, Lincoln's Inn, 1855
- Physical Description:
- vi, [2], 178 p., 28 [i.e. 30] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsZ105 H92 1855+ OversizeView by request in the Study Room [Request]
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- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/130894
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- The "Pictorial Writing of Mexico" is a copy of a print by Agostino Aglio of the Codex Mendoza, in Antiquities of Mexico, volume 1.
Printer statement from t.p verso.
"List of plates.": p. [2] at front.
Errata: p. [2] at front.
Color lithographs by H.N. Humphreys and printed by Day & Son. Plates not in color printed by P. Jerrard III, Fleet St.
Plates V and XVIII (according to list of plates) are unnumbered. Plates XIV and XIVa are on the same leaf.
Abbey, J.R. Life in England in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 224
Includes bibliographical references.
BAC: British Art Center copy is the Abbey copy. - Subject Terms:
- Alphabets -- History.Paleography.Writing -- History.
- Form/Genre:
- Lithographs.
Chromolithographs. - Export:
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