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• The works of George Dalgarno of Aberdeen. (Edinburgh, 1834), by George Dalgarno (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hanragrutʻiwn or ē hamazgayin grutʻean nor och mē (I tparani Srboyn Ghazaru, 1907), by Atʻanas Tiroyian (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La notographie, alphabet universel des sons. Méthode nouvelle d'écrire aussi vite que la parole dans toutes les langues (Chez Delaunay [etc.], 1819), by E. Vidal and capitaine au Corps royal d'État-major M*** (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pantography, or Universal drawings, in the comparison of their natural and arbitrary laws, with the nature and importance of pasigraphy, as the science of letters; being particularly adapted to the orthoepic accuracy requisite in international correspondences, and the study of foreign languages. With specimens of more than fifty different alphabets, including a concise description of almost all others known generally throughout the world. (Pub. by the author, and for sale by Thomas Cowperthwait & co., 1843), by Benajah Jay Antrim (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pasigraphie mittels arabischer zahlzeichen. (Semlin, 1859), by Moses Paić (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pasigraphie ... oder ... Anfangsgründe der neuen Kunst-Wissenschaft, in einer Sprache alles so zu schreiben und zu drucken, dass es in jeder andern ohne Übersetzung gelesen und verstanden werden kann, erfunden und verfasset (Im Bureu der Pasigraphie, 1797), by Joseph de Maimieux (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'idéographie : mémoire sur la possibilité et la facilité de former une écriture générale au moyen de laquelle tous les peuples puissent s'entendre mutuellement sans que les uns connaissent la langue des autres (B. Duprat :, 1863), by Sinibaldo de Mas (page images at HathiTrust)

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• 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)
• The One Primeval Language: Traced Experimentally Through Ancient Inscriptions in Alphabetic Characters of Lost Powers From the Four Continents (3 volumes; London: R. Bentley, 1852-1854), by Charles Forster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essai sur l'origine unique et hieŕoglyphique des chiffres et des lettres de tous les peuples, ouvrage ... précédé d'un coup d'oeil rapide sur l'histoire du monde, entre l'époque de la création et l'ère de Nabonassar, et de quelques idées sur la formation de la première de toutes les écritures, qui exista avant le deluge, et qui fut hiéroglyphique ... (Treuttel et Wurtz, 1926), by Paravey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Der Ursprung des Alphabets. Die neuentdeckte Sinaischrift. (Weidmann, 1926), by Kurt Sethe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Beiträge zur geschichte des etruskischen, lateinischen und griechischen alphabets. (Druckerei der Finnischen literatur-gesellschaft, 1920), by M. Hammarström (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ancient writing and its influence (Longmans, Green and co., 1932), by B. L. Ullman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Significance of the alphabet. (Peabody, 1846), by Charles V. Kraitsir (page images at HathiTrust)
• The origin and progress of letters : an essay in two parts : the first shewing when, and by whom letters were invented : the formation of the alphabets of various nations : their manner of writing, on what materials, and with what instruments men have written in different ages to the present time : wherein is considered the great utility of this art with regard to mankind : the second part consists of a compendious account of the most celebrated English penmen, with the titles and characters of the books they have published both from the rolling and letter press : interspersed with many interesting particulars by way of notes throughout the first part : and the second is a new species of biography never attempted before in English : the whole collected from undoubted authorities (Printed for J. Johnson ..., 1763), by W. Massey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The origin & development of printing types. (Printed by Lanston monotype machine company, 1930), by Sol Hess and Lanston Monotype Machine Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern type display and the use of type ornament. (H. T. Wyse, 1911), by Henry Taylor Wyse (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Conjectural observations on the origin and progress of alphabetic writing. (Printed by T. Wright, for T. Cadell, and P. Elmsly ...; M. Hingeston ...; S. Leacroft ...; and G. Pearch ..., 1772), by Charles Davy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The alphabet; an account of the origin and development of letters. (K. Paul, Trench, 1883), by Isaac Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• A popular treatise on the history of the origin and development of written language; especially of its alphabetic signs. (The Case, Lockwood & Brainard company, 1883), by George Ingersoll Wood (page images at HathiTrust)
• The origin and varieties of the Semitic alphabet, with specimens. (The American publication society of Hebrew, 1884), by John C. C. Clarke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mediterranean studies ... (Stanford university press, 1930), by George Hempl and Frederick Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Runornas talmystik och dess antika förebild ([C. W. K. Gleerup], 1927), by Sigurd Agrell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Ayran origin of the alphabet, disclosing the Sumero-Phœnician parentage of our letters ancient & modern (Luzac & co., 1927), by L. A. Waddell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vom kerbstock zum alphabet; urformen der schrift (Kosmos, gesellschaft der naturfreunde, 1915), by Karl Weule (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kadmus, oder Allgemeine alphabetik vom physikalischen, physiologischen und graphischen standpunkt (F. Dümmler., 1862), by Félix Henri Du Bois-Reymond (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beitraege zur kenntniss der literatur, kunst, mythologie und geschichte des alten Aegypten (J. A. Barth, 1826), by Gustav Seyffarth and Preussische Staatsbibliothek (page images at HathiTrust)
• The alphabet; Terentian metres; good, better, best, well, &c (Taylor, Walton and Maberly, 1849), by T. Hewitt Key (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of the alphabet (Royal Typewriter Company, Bureau of Research, 1930), by Michael Lipman and New York Royal typewriter company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The essentials of lettering : a manual for students and designers, (McGraw-Hill book company, 1912), by Thomas E. French and Robert Meiklejohn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Alphabet in Mystik und Magie (B.G. Teubner, 1922), by Franz Dornseiff (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• In the path of the alphabet; an historical account of the ancient beginnings and evolution of the modern alphabet (W. D. Page, 1906), by Frances Delavan Jermain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scholars' primer (J. Grant, 1917), by Grammaticus Virgilius Maro, Isidore of Seville, and George Calder (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The story of the alphabet (D. Appleton and company, 1900), by Edward Clodd (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The alphabet and language. Immortality of the big trees. Wealth and poverty of the Chicago exposition. (W. Doxey, 1895), by Thomas Magee and William Doxey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of the alphabet (N. T. A. Munder & co., printers, 1921), by Otto F. Ege (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of the alphabet (D. Appleton and company, 1903), by Edward Clodd (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of the alphabet. (Newnes, 1900), by Edward Clodd (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the origin of the Indian Brahma alphabet. (K.J. Trübner, 1898), by Georg Bühler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pantographia; containing accurate copies of all the known alphabets in the world; together with an English explanation of the peculiar force or power of each letter: to which are added, specimens of all well-authenticated oral languages ... (Printed by Cooper and Wilson, for J. and A. Arch [etc.], 1799), by Edmund Fry (page images at HathiTrust)
• The one primeval language traced experimentally through ancient inscriptions in alphabetic characters of lost powers from the four continents ... (R. Bentley, 1852), by Charles Forster (page images at HathiTrust)
• The one primeval language traced experimentally through ancient inscriptions in alphabetic characters of lost powers from the four continents including the voice of Israel from the rocks of Sinai and the vestiges of patriarchal tradition from the monuments of Egypt, Eturia, and southern Arabia. (R. Bentley, 1851), by Charles Forster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zwei sprachvergleichende Abhandlungen. (F. Dümmler, 1836), by Richard Lepsius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bildung und bezeichnung der sprachlaute des menschen vom ursprung der schrift und ihrer allmäligen entwicklung bis auf unsre tage. ([s.n.], 1905), by John Happel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pantographia : containing accurate copies of all the known alphabets in the world ; together with an English explanation of the peculiar force or power of each letter : to which are added, specimens of all well-authenticated oral languages ... (Printed by Cooper and Wilson, for J. and A. Arch [etc.], 1799), by Edmund Fry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rašto istorija. Pagal A. B. Schnitzer'i sutaise Šernas [pseud.] (Spauda "Lietuvos", 1906), by Juozas Adomaitis and A. B. Schnitzer (page images at HathiTrust)
• A apple pie (George Routledge and Sons, 1886), by Kate Greenaway and Edmund Evans (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essai sur l'origine unique et hiéroglyphique des chiffres et des lettres de tous les peuples. (Treuttel et Wurtz, 1826), by Charles Hippolyte Paravey (page images at HathiTrust)
• An examination of the ancient orthography of the Jews, and of the original state of the text of the Hebrew Bible ... (Whittaker and co.; [etc., etc.], 1835), by Charles William Wall (page images at HathiTrust)
• De l'influence de l'écriture sur le langue : mémoire qui, en 1828, a partagé le ṕrix fondé par M. le comte de Volney : suivi de grammaires Barmane et Malaie, et d'un aperçu de l'alphabet harmonique pour les langues asiatiques, que l'Institut royal de France a couronné en 1827 (J. W. Heyer (G. Jonghaus), 1835), by Andreas August Ernst Schleiermacher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alphabete orientalischer und occidentalischer Sprachen : zum Gebrauch für Schriftsetzer und Correctoren (Brockhaus, 1852), by Friedrich Ballhorn (page images at HathiTrust)
• De literaturae phoneticae origine atque indole : disseruit tabulis literas veterum semitarum indorum graecorum italorum himjaritarum normannorum anglosaxonum ulfilae scripturam cuneatam iranicam exhibentibus (Apud Ferd. Duemmlerum, 1858), by Wilhelm Geisler (page images at HathiTrust)
• The alphabet; Terentian metres; good, better, best, well, &c. (Charles Knight & co., 1844), by Thomas Hewitt Key (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zur geschichte der buchstabenschrift, in besonderer beziehung auf Hebräer, Phönicier, Griechen und Aegypter ... (Unzer, 1838), by Jos. L. Saalschütz (page images at HathiTrust)
• The universal alphabet : the alphabet wherein the factors that have evolved in the process of nature logically conspire to produce (Charles T. Luthy, 1918), by Charles T. Luthy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The one primeval language : traced experimentally through ancient inscriptions in alphabetic characters of lost powers from the four continents ... (R. Bentley, 1851), by Charles Forster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ensayo sobre los alphabetos de las letras desconocidas, que se encuentran en las mas antiguas medallas, y monumentos de España. (en la oficina de Antonio Sanz..., 1752), by Luis José Velázquez de Velasco and Antonio Sanz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tableau del elémene vocaux de l'ecriture Chinoise. Divese en 2 parties (chez V. Ratier, 1829), by I. C. V. Levasseur and Heinrich Kurz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das buch der schrift, enthaltend die schriften und alphabete aller zeiten und aller völker des gesammten erdkreises (K. K. Hof- und staatsdruckerei, 1878), by Karl Faulmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• The alphabet (M. Kennerly, 1922), by Frederic W. Goudy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Unser alphabet, ein abbild des thierkreises, mit der constellation der sieben planeten ... am 7. september des iahres 3446 vor Christus, angeblich zu ende der sündfluth, wahrscheinlich nach eigenen beobachtungen Noah's ... (Barth, 1834), by Gustav Seyffarth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die ḳenitischen Weihinschriften der Hyksoszeit im Bergbaugebiet der Sinaihalbinsel und einige andere unerkannte Alphabetdenkmäler aus der Zeit der XII. bis XVIII. Dynastie : eine schrift- und kulturgeschichtliche Untersuchung (Herdersche Verlagshandlung, 1919), by Robert Eisler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Der ursprung des alphabets und die mondstationen. (Leipzig : J.C. Hinrichs, 1913., 1913), by Eduard Stucken (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die namen der alphabetbuchstaben ... (Töpelmann, 1906), by Mark Lidzbarski (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Das vollständige Universal-Alphabet auf der physiologisch-historischen Grundlage des hebräischen Systems zuu erbauen versucht (C. Wolf & Sohn, 1855), by Franz Joseph Lauth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Ursprung des Alphabetes und seine Entwicklung (Heintze & Blanckertz, 1921), by R. Stübe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The antiquity of Hebrew writing and literature; or, Problems in Pentateuchal criticism. (Cleveland, Ohio : Central publishing house, 1911., 1911), by Alvin Sylvester Zerbe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of the letters and figures (O. Brewer publishing co., 1905), by Hubert M. Skinner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shaʻar ha-ḳadim (Farag Ḥayim Mizraḥi, 1895), by Shelomoh Ḥazan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire de l'écriture dans l'antiquité. (Imprimerie nationale, 1891), by Philippe Berger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Augusti Pfeiferi D. Critica sacra, : de sacri codicis partitione, editionibus variis, lingvis originalibus & illibatâ puritate fontium, interpretatione scripturae legitima, nec non ejusdem : Translatione in lingvas totius universi de Masora & Kabbala, Talmude deniq; & Alcorano. : Accessere, suisq locis inserti, Tractatus qvatuor, I. De antiqvis ritibus Ebraeorum. II. De natura, usu & subsidiis lingvarum orientalium omnium. III. De compendiaria ratione legendi scripta rabbinico-talmudica. IV. De accentuatione tàm prosaica qvàm metrica facilè discenda. (Impensis Mart. Gabriel. Hübneri, excudebat Vidua Bergeniana, 1680), by August Pfeiffer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die entwicklung der schrift (F. Dümmler, 1852), by Heymann Steinthal (page images at HathiTrust)
• The alphabet of the primitive language of Spain, and philosophical examination of the antiquity and civilization of the Basque people: an extract from the work of Don Juan Bautista de Erro. (Press of I. R. Butts, 1829), by Juan Bautista de Erro y Azpiroz and George William Erving (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of the alphabet (S. S. McClure, 1909), by Edward Clodd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Van het letterschrift ... (J. Immerzeel, junior, 1820), by Willem Bilderdijk (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voice of Israel from the rocks of Sinai. (Richard Bentley, 1852), by Charles Forster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studia palaeographica. (Druck von A. W. Hayn, 1857), by Wilhelm Geisler and Berlin (Germany). Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ankündigung eines nächst zu veröffentlichenden allgemeinen lateinisch-slavischen, zugleich deutschen, französischen, italienischen und eventuell auch eines Universal- oder Welt-Alphabetes, mit Beigabe eines Brevi manu-Vorschlages des slovenischen Alphabetes als Probe. (Druck von I. v. Kleinmayr, 1851), by Joseph Poklukar (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alphabete orientalischer und occidentalischer Sprachen (F.A. Brockhaus, 1853), by Friedrich Ballhorn (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of the alphabet. (D. Appleton and Co., 1927), by Edward Clodd (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Alfabeto de la lengua primitiva de España, inscripciones monedas y medallas (Librerias "Paris-Valencia", 1999), by Juan Bautista de Erro y Azpiroz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Das Kleid der deutschen Sprache : unsre Buchschrift in Gegenwart in Gegenwart und Zukunft. ([s.n.], 1912), by Gustav Ruprecht (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Unsere Schrift : drei Abhandlungen zur Einführung in die Geschichte der Schrift und des Buchdrucks. ([s.n.], 1911), by Karl Brandi (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Address on the alphabet -- the vehicle of history, before the N. Y. Historical Society, at its 81st anniversary, November 17th, 1885 (Printed by the Historical Society, 1885), by Luther R. Marsh (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Celtic druids (R. Hunter, 1827), by Godfrey Higgins (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of the alphabet (D. Appleton and company, 1904), by Edward Clodd (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The origin of the Phenician and Indian alphabets. (s.n.], 1897), by Robert Needham Cust (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das buch der schrift (K. K. Hof- und staatsdruckerei, 1880), by Karl Faulmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Simplification de l'etude des langues par la philospohie du langage et des signes graphiques de la pensée; introduction. (Grimblot et veue Rayboia, imprimsure-libraires, 1855), by Ferdinand Schütz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Het algemeen alphabet. ([Leiden, 1855), by Conradus Leemans (page images at HathiTrust)
• De literaturae phoneticae origine atque indole disseruit (apud F. Duemmlerum, 1858), by Wihelm Geisler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Simplification de l'étude des langues par la philosophie du langage et des signes graphiques de la pensée; introduction. (Grimblot et veuve Raybois, imprimeurs-libraires, 1855), by Ferdinand Schütz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mémoire sur l'origine égyptienne de l'alphabet phénicien (Imprimerie nationale, 1874), by Emmanuel Rougé and Jacques Rougé (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alphabete orientalischer und occidentalischer Sprachen : zum Gebrauch für Schriftsetzer und Correctoren (Brockhaus, 1852), by Friedrich Ballhorn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grammatography: a manual of reference to the alphabets of ancient and modern languages (Trübner and co., 1861), by Friedrich Ballhorn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ueber den Ursprung des Alphabetes und über die Vocalbezeichnung im Alten Testamente (Schwers'sche Buchhandlung, 1841), by Justus Olshausen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The alphabet of the primitive language of Spain, and a philosophical examination of the antiquity and civilization of the Basque people: (Press of I. R. Butts, 1829), by Juan Bautista de Erro y Azpiroz and George William Erving (page images at HathiTrust)
• Little tots' friends in feathers and fur (W. Briggs, 1898), by Grace Townsend (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of the alphabet (Hodder and Stoughton, 1913), by Edward Clodd (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An essay upon literature: or, An enquiry into the antiquity and original of letters; proving that the two tables, written by the finger of God in Mount Sinai, was the first writing in the world, and that all other alphabets derive from the Hebrew ; with a short view of the methods made use of by the antients to supply the want of letters before, and improve the use of them, after they were known. (Printed for Tho. Bowles ... , 1726), by Daniel Defoe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of the alphabet (McClure, Phillips & Co., 1904), by Edward Clodd (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Alphabete orientalischer und occidentalischer Sprachen. (Verlag von Hermann Ballhorn, 1880), by Friedrich Ballhorn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Semitic alphabet. (American Publication Society of Hebrew, 1884), by John C. C. Clarke (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of the alphabet (D. Appleton and Co., 1910), by Edward Clodd (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of the alphabet (D. Appleton and company, 1915), by Edward Clodd (page images at HathiTrust)
• The alphabet; fifteen interpretative designs. (J. Lane, The Bodley head ltd., 1922), by Frederic W. Goudy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyelles-Consonnes. (s.n.], 1889), by I. A. Lyttkens and F. A. Wulff (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of the alphabet (Appleton, 1915), by Edward Clodd (page images at HathiTrust)
• The alphabet ; Terentian metres ; good, better, best, well, & c2d issue, with a paper on the pronouns of the third person. (Taylor, Walton and Maberly, 1849), by T. Hewitt Key (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beitraege zur Kenntniss der Literatur, Kunst, Mythologie und Geschichte des alten Aegypten (J.A. Barth, 1826), by Gustav Seyffarth and Preussische Staatsbibliothek (page images at HathiTrust)
• The alphabet : fifteen interpretative designs drawn and arranged with explanatory text and illustrations (Mitchell Kennerley, 1918), by Frederic W. Goudy, Mitchell Kennerley, William Edwin Rudge, Bertha Goudy, Walker Engraving Company, and Village Press (page images at HathiTrust)
• Della Libraria vaticana ragionamenti di Mutio Pansa (Appresso Giouanni Martinelli, 1590), by Mutio Pansa (page images at HathiTrust)
• Natural history ABC. (M.A. Donohue, 1900) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reformed alphabet and orthography : memorial of N.E. Dawson ... setting forth the plan of a reformed alphabet and orthography, and suggesting measures to extend a knowledge of it over the nation. (s.n., 1878), by Noble E. Dawson and United States. Congress 1877-1878). House of Representatives (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of writing, prepared under the auspices of the Committee on materials of instruction of the American council on education, with the co-operation of the Subcommittee on political education of the American political science association. (The American council on education., 1932), by American Council on Education. Committee on Materials of Instruction, May Diehl, Bertha Morris Parker, and American Political Science Association. Subcommittee on Political Education (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notices sur les caractères étrangers, anciens et modernes, rédigées par un groupe de savants (Imprimerie nationale, 1927), by Charles Fossey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mystical reflections on the ampersand (The Southworth-Anthoensen Press, 1937), by Lawrence C. Wroth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Reseña histórica de los estúdios sobre caractéres Ibéricos. (Imp. de D. Sar, 1915), by Eduardo Velasco (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The story of the alphabet (D. Appleton and company, 1905), by Edward Clodd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Neue Untersuchungen über die Entstehung der Buchstabenschrift und die Person des Erfinders. (Bermann & Altmann, 1875), by Karl Faulmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hādhā kitāb shumūs al-anwār wa-kunūz al-asrār (al-Maṭbaʻah al-Tilyaniyah, 1874), by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Ibn al-Ḥājj (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of the alphabet (D. Appleton and Co., 1912), by Edward Clodd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Buchstabenmystik (in German), by Franz Dornseiff (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Story of the Alphabet, by Otto F. Ege (Gutenberg ebook)
• In the path of the alphabet: an historical account of the ancient beginnings and evolution of the modern alphabet, by Frances Delavan Page Jermain (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Story of the Alphabet, by Edward Clodd (Gutenberg ebook)
• The History, Theory, and Practice of Illuminating: Condensed from 'The Art of Illuminating' by the same illustrator and author, by M. Digby Wyatt, illust. by W. R. Tymms (Gutenberg ebook)

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