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[ Palaeography ] Origin and Progress of Writing

Astle, Thomas. The Origin and Progress of Writing. The origin and progress of writing, as well hieroglyphic as elementary, illustrated by engravings taken from marbles, manuscripts and charters, ancient and modern : also some account of the origin and progress of printing / by Thomas Astle, Esq. F.R.S. F.A.S. and keeper of the recorsd in the Tower of London. London : Printed by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, for J. White, at Horace's Head, Fleet-Street., 1803.
4to, full leather binding (worn) gilt decorations at boards and spine, pp. [8], XXIV, 240, [1].

33 engraved plates (some folding)

Second Edition

The first major English work about palaeography. The plates illustrate different styles of writing and relative alphabets, including Phoenician, Greek, Lombardic, Celtic, Franco-Teutonic and modern Gothic.