Rebound 3/4 leather over marbled boards. Scarce folio edition. 240 pp. Very good. Extremities lightly worn. Lower corner of frontis repaired with tape. Profusely illustrated with full page black & white and color plates. Frontis portrait of the author.

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Title

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.

Publisher

Chatto & Windus

Publication Date

1876

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Good

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David Morrison Books
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