History of Books and Printing

Antiquity: Alphabets, Writing Systems, Writing Materials

Diringer, David, The Alphabet; A Key to the History of Mankind (New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1968). *R-RAH 85-3.

Diringer, David, The Hand Produced Book (New York: Philosophical Library, 1953). *RR-*I.

Gaur, Albertine, A History of Writing, revised edition (London: British Library, 1992). *R-*IC 92-18728.

Healey, John F., The Early Alphabet (London: British Museum Publications, 1990). JFF 91-804.

Jensen, Hans, Sign, Symbol and Script: An Account of Man's Efforts to Write (New York: Putnam, 1969). F-11 7042.

The Origins of Writing, Wayne M. Senner, ed. (Lincoln, NB; London: University of Nebraska Press, 1989). *R-*IC 90-4457.

Reading the Past: Ancient Writing from Cuneiform to the Alphabet (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1990). *R-*IC 91-4099.

Thompson, James Westfall, Ancient Libraries (Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1962, c1940). *RR-*H or C-12 4275.

Ullman, B.L., Ancient Writing and Its Influence (London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1932). *RR-*IC.