The Origin and Progress Of the Art Of Writing

Ingram, Cooke and Co, 1853. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1853. No Edition Stated. 176 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Red patterned cloth. Book has been rebound by library, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Contains black and white, colour illustrated plates. Pages are moderately tanned with mild foxing throughout. Binding remains firm. Faint black marks to… Read more about this item

London: Ingram, Cooke, and Co., 1853. [Writing, Calligraphy and Illumination] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION, in a PAPIER MACHÉ BINDING. Quarto (27 x 19cm), pp.[2] viii; 176 [2]. INSCRIBED in black ink to verso of fly-leaf 'with the author's | kind regards.' With 28 lithographic plates, several done in gilt and colour, including a frontispiece. Recently re-backed in tough plain black… Read more about this item

London: Ingram, Cooke and Co., 1853 A connected narative of the development of the art, its primeval phases in Egypt, China, Mexico etc; its middle state in the Cuneatic systems of Nineveh and Persepolis, to its introduction to Europe through the medium of the Hebrew, Phoenician, and Greek systems, and its subsequent progress to the present day. viii, 176pp gilt… Read more about this item

Ingram, Cooke, and Co., 1853. First edition hardback. It is bound in lightly rubbed but otherwise sound library cloth. The endpapers have library plates and some foxing. The title page has embossed and ink library stamps. There is some foxing throughout the text and plates.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Hardback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.