The Alphabet: A Key to the History of Mankind Complete 2 Volume Set

by David Diringer, Reinhold Regensburger

$150 · Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller

New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1968 . Third revised. Hardcover. 2 volumes. 4to. xix, 473pp. 452pp. Original mottled olive cloth with red title-plate in original matching slipcase. Yellow top edge and endpapers. Provides an introduction to the history of the alphabet. Volume 1gives a historical overview of the development of the non-alphabetic scripts. Volume 2 is the illustration volume and has b/w photographs and tables

• Binding: Hardcover

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