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Alphabet

Here are entered general and comparative works dealing with the Semitic alphabet and its ancient and modern derivatives, or with similar series of characters employed to represent the sounds of a language.

Works on the process or result of recording language in the form of conventionalized visible marks or graphic signs on a surface are entered under Writing. Works on the writing of a particular language are entered under the name of the language with subdivisions Alphabet and Writing, e.g. Greek language -- Alphabet; Egyptian language -- Writing. Works on systems of writing used by several peoples are entered under Writing, followed by the name of the system, e.g. Writing, Arabic.

Works on variations in the style of writing in the past, and especially with ancient and medieval handwriting, are entered under Paleography.

Works on written languages as a form of communication or discourse are entered under Written communication.

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• Hieroglyphics
• Transliteration

• Alphabet -- Caricatures and cartoons
• Alphabet -- Data processing
• Alphabet -- Folklore
• Alphabet -- History
• Alphabet -- Juvenile literature
• Alphabets
• Arabic alphabet
• Cuneiform writing
• Devanagari alphabet
• Grantha alphabet
• Phonetic alphabet
• Avestan language -- Alphabet
• Cherokee language -- Alphabet
• English language -- Alphabet
• Greek language -- Alphabet
• Hebrew language -- Alphabet
• Hindi language -- Alphabet
• India -- Languages -- Alphabet
• Oriya language -- Alphabet
• Sanskrit language -- Alphabet
• Telugu language -- Alphabet

• Latin alphabet
• Letters of the alphabet
• Roman alphabet
• Latin script

• A Constructed Roman Alphabet: A Geometric Analysis of the Roman Alphabet, Including the Greek Characters and the Arabic Numerals, by David Lance Goines (illustrated HTML at goines.net)

• An A. B. C. of Every-Day People, Good, Bad and Indifferent (London: Dean and Son, ca. 1902), by G. E. Farrow, illust. by John Hassall (page images at Princeton)
• An Alphabet Allegorical, Alliterative and Amusing, Appreciable at All Ages (London: Effingham Wilson, 1871), by L. J Hill (page images at Princeton)

• The Unicode Standard, Version 3.0, by Unicode Consortium (HTML at unicode.org)

• ABC: An Alphabet Written and Pictured by Mrs. Arthur Gaskin (London: E. Mathews; Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1895), by Georgie Gaskin (page images at Princeton)
• ABC Fun (Los Angeles: Broadway Department Store, ca. 1910) (page images at Princeton)
• ABC Jingles (Syracuse, NY: G.C. Hanford Mfg. Co, 1920), by G.C. Hanford Mfg. Co (page images at Princeton)
• The Absurd ABC (London and New York: John Lane, c1874), by Walter Crane (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• An Alphabet of Fairy Tales (London: Gale and Polden, Ltd., 1920), by Doris Pailthorpe (page images at Princeton)
• Arthur's Book of Alphabets (London and New York: G. Routledge and Sons, n.d.) (page images at Princeton)
• Babes of the Empire: An Alphabet for Young England (London: W. Heinemann, 1902), by Thomas Stevens, illust. by A. H. Collins (page images at Princeton)
• The Bandit Bunny Alphabet and Other Stories (1901), by Charles M. Snyder, illust. by George Reiter Brill (page images at Princeton)
• Comic Animals and Their Adventures; With Alphabet and Rhymes (ca. 1880), illust. by George H. Thompson and Louis Wain (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• Denslow's ABC Book (New York: G. W. Dillingham Co., 1903), by W. W. Denslow (page images at Princeton)
• Edward Lear's ABC (London: H. Frowde, Hodder and Stoughton, ca. 1913), by Edward Lear (page images at Princeton)
• Fairy A B C (New York: McLoughlin Bros, ca. 1880) (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• Footsteps on the Road to Learning: or, The Alphabet in Rhyme (New Haven: S. Babcock, 1850) (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Ladder to Learning (Albany: R. H. Pease, 1852), by Miss Lovechild (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Moral Alphabet (London: E. Arnold, 1899), by Hilaire Belloc, illust. by B. T. B. (Basil Temple Blackwood)
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• A Naval Alphabet (London: Sands and Co., ca. 1901), by John Hassall (page images at Princeton)
• Pumpkin Pie ABC Book (New York: McLoughlin Bros., ca. 1900) (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• Wright's Alphabet Book (London: Wright's Coal Tar Soap, ca. 1910) (page images at Princeton)
• Peter Piper's Playmates (Chicago: A. Whitman and Co., c1930), illust. by Eleanore Mineah Hubbard
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at childrensbooksonline.org
• The Jolly Adventures of Billy Van and Betty Camp (Indianapolis: Van Camp Products Co., c1923), by Edward M. Carney, illust. by Carl Mueller
  • page images at Princeton
  • page images at HathiTrust
• An A. B. C. of Every-Day People, Good, Bad and Indifferent (London: Dean and Son, ca. 1902), by G. E. Farrow, illust. by John Hassall (page images at Princeton)
• An A.B.C. of Golf, by a Victim (New York: Blanchard Press, c1898), by De Witt Clinton Falls (PDF (enter the title of the book to get to the PDF) at USGA Museum)
• The Alphabet of Goody Two Shoes: By Learning Which She Soon Got Rich (London: Printed For J. Harris and Son, 1820) (page images at Princeton)
• The Bicycle ABC (London: Dean and Son, ca. 1898), by I. Noys Lewis (page images at Princeton)
• The Children of Many Nations and the ABC (Rochester, NY: Stecher Lith. Co., 1916), by Carolyn S. Hodgman, illust. by William F. Stecher (page images at Princeton)
• The Child's Alphabet, Emblematically Described and Embellished by Twenty-Four Pictures, Brought Into Easy Verse, for the Tender Capacities of Young Readers: The Whole Contrived to Allure Children Into the Love of Learning (Glasgow: Printed by J. And M. Robertson, 1805) (page images at Princeton)
• The Invited Alphabet: or, Address of A To B Containing His Friendly Proposal for the Amusement and Instruction of Good Children (London: B. Tabart and Co., 1809), by R. R., illust. by Charles Knight (page images at Princeton)
• Jolly Animal ABC (New York: McLoughin Bros., ca. 1890) (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• The Keith ABC for Children (Boston: Publicity Department, Keith's Theatre, 1906), by James F. McNally, contrib. by B. F. Keith, illust. by Wallace Goldsmith (page images at Princeton)
• Laugh and Learn ABC Book (New York: McLoughlin Bros., 1900) (page images at Princeton)
• Laughable Lyrics: A Fourth Book of Nonsense Poems, Songs, Botany, Music, Etc., by Edward Lear (illustrated HTML at nonsenselit.org)
• The Mother's Picture Alphabet (London: S. W. Partridge and Co., ca. 1887) (multiple formats at Google; US access only)
• Old Aunt Elspa's ABC: We'll Soon Learn To Read, Then How Clever We'll Be (London: Field and Tuer; E.C. Simpkin, Marshall and Co.; Hamilton, Adams and Co, 1884), by Joseph Crawhall (page images at Princeton)
• Take Your Choice! or, A Peep at my Playmates (London: Printed for J. Harris and Son, 1822), by Pat Playful (page images at Princeton)
• The Teddy Bear ABC (Boston and New York: H.M. Caldwell Co., c1907), by Laura Rinkle Johnson, illust. by Margaret Landers Sanford (page images at Princeton)
• Tom Thumb's Alphabet (London: W. Darton and Son, ca. 1836) (page images at Princeton)
• The Union ABC (Boston: Degen, Estes, and Co., ca. 1864) (page images at Princeton)
• ABC Health Cards (New York: American Child Health Association, 1915) (page images at Princeton)
• Goldfish at School: or, The Alphabet of Frank the Fisherman (London: Hodgson and Co., 1823) (page images at Princeton)
• The Union Label Alphabet For Little and Big Children (Chicago: Bakery and Confectionery Workers' International Union of America, 1905), by Bakery and Confectionery Workers' International Union of America (page images at Princeton)
• An A B C, for Baby Patriots (London: Dean and Son, 1899), by Mrs. Ernest Ames (page images at Florida)

• Results of the 2001 Kerak Plateau Early Bronze Age Survey; Two Early Alphabetic Inscriptions from the Wadi el-Ḥôl (published as v.59 of Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research; c2005), by Meredith S. Chesson, Cheryl Makarewicz, Ian Kuijt, Charlotte M. Whiting, John Coleman Darnell, F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp, Marilyn J. Lundberg, P. Kyle McCarter, and Bruce Zuckerman, contrib. by Colleen Manassa (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ancient Alphabets and Hieroglyphic Characters Explained; With an Account of the Egyptian Priests, Their Classes, Initiation, and Sacrifices (in Arabic and English; London: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., 1806), by Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī Ibn Waḥshīyah, trans. by Joseph Hammer-Purgstall
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Book of Alphabets, For Use in Schools (Boston: Ginn and Co., c1908), by H. W. Shaylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Invited Alphabet: or, Address of A To B Containing His Friendly Proposal for the Amusement and Instruction of Good Children (London: B. Tabart and Co., 1809), by R. R., illust. by Charles Knight (page images at Princeton)
• The New Zanerian Alphabets: An Instructor in Roundhand, Engrossing, Designing, Etc. (Columbus: Zaner and Bloser, c1900), by C. P. Zaner (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Prang's Standard Alphabets (revised edition; Boston: L. Prang and Co., c1886) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Collection of Penmanship (Columbus: Zaner-Bloser Co., 1921), by C. C. Canan (multiple formats at archive.org)
• La Operina (in Italian, with English translation and commentary), by Ludovico degli Arrighi, ed. by Gunnlaugur S. E. Briem (zipped PDF at operina.com)
• Studies in Pen Art (1914), by William Edward Dennis (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Ames' Guide to Self Instruction in Practical and Artistic Penmanship (1894), by Daniel T. Ames (multiple formats at archive.org)

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