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• Writing -- History -- Early works to 1800
• Writing -- History -- Exhibitions
• Writing -- History -- Political aspects
• Writing -- History -- Social aspects
• Calligraphy -- History
• Graphology -- History
• Paleography -- History
• Penmanship -- History
• Shorthand -- History
• Writing materials and instruments -- History
• Writing, Arabic -- History
• Chinese language -- Writing -- History
• Japanese language -- Writing -- History
• Thai language -- Writing -- History

• Writing as Material Practice: Substance, Surface and Medium (London: Ubiquity Press, c2013), ed. by Kathryn Piquette and Ruth Whitehouse (PDF at Ubiquity Press)
• The Beginnings of Writing (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1895), by Walter James Hoffman, contrib. by Frederick Starr
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • 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 (3 parts in 4 inconsistently numbered volumes; London: Whittaker and Co., 1835-1856), by Charles William Wall
  • Part the first: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Part the second; volume 2 (1st volume of this part): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Part the second; volume 3 (2nd volume of this part): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Part the third (only volume 1 of this part published): multiple formats at Google
  • Parts 1 and 2 (3 volumes): page images at HathiTrust
• The Story of the Alphabet (London: G. Newnes, Ltd., 1900), by Edward Clodd (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Story of the Alphabet (Baltimore: N. T. A. Munder and Co., c1921), by Otto F. Ege
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Universal Palaeography: or, Fac-Similes of Writings of All Nations and Periods (2 volumes; London: H. G. Bohn, 1849), by M. Champollion-Figeac, Aimé-Louis Champollion-Figeac, Jean-François Champollion, and J. B. Silvestre, ed. by Frederic Madden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essai sur l'origine de l'écriture, sur son introduction dans la Grèce et son usage jusq'au temps d'Homère, c'est-à-dire jusqu'à l'an 1000 avant notre ère. (H. Fournier, jeune [etc.], 1832), by Agricole Joseph François Xavier Pierre Esprit Simon Paul Antoine Fortia d'Urban (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)
• Ancient writing and its influence (Longmans, Green and co., 1932), by B. L. Ullman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geschichte der abendländischen schreibschriftformen (K. W. Hiersemann, 1928), by Hermann Delitsch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Illi︠u︡strirovannai︠a︡ vseobshchai︠a︡ istorīi︠a︡ pisʹmen. (Izd. A.F. Marksa, 1903), by I︠A︡. B. Shnit︠s︡er (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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)
• Paleografia e diplomatica de' documenti delle province Napolitane. (Tip. R. Rinaldi e G. Sellitto, 1883), by Michele Russi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Roman cursive writing ... (Princeton university press; [etc., etc.], 1915), by Henry Bartlett Van Hoesen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The origin and progress of writing, as well hieroglyphic as elementary (Printed for the author; sold by T. Payne and son [etc.], 1784), by Thomas Astle (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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 (Chatto and Windus, 1876), by Thomas Astle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Universal palaeography : or, Fac-similes of writings of all nations and periods ... by J. B. Silvestre, accompanied by an historical and descriptive text and introd. (H. G. Bohn, 1849), by M. Champollion-Figeac, J. B. Silvestre, Jean-François Champollion, and Aimé-Louis Champollion-Figeac (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire naturelle du langage. Physiologie du langage graphique (G. Baillière; New-York, Baillière brothers; [etc., etc.], 1868), by Adolphe d' Assier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Illustrirte geschichte der schrift (A. Hartleben, 1880), by Karl Faulmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• A study of writing (University of Chicago Press, 1963), by Ignace J. Gelb (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Geschichte der schrift (Orient-buchhandlung H. Lafaire, 1928), by Hans Jensen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A history of the art of writing (The Macmillan Company, 1920), by William Albert Mason (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)
• Geschichte der schrift und des schrifttums von den rohen anfängen des schreibens in der tatuirung bis zur legung elektromagnetischer dräthe. (E. Fleischer [etc.], 1872), by Heinrich Wuttke (page images at HathiTrust)
• A study of writing. (University of Chicago Press, 1963), by Ignace Jay Gelb (page images at HathiTrust)
• Outlines of comparative philology : with a sketch of the languages of Europe, arranged upon philologic principles, and a brief history of the art of writing (G.P. Putnam & Co., 1853), by M. Schele de Vere, Walt Whitman, and Charles E. Feinberg Collection of Walt Whitman (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Schrift : Atlas der Schriftformen des Abendlandes vom Altertum bis zum Ausgang des 18. Jahrhunderts (E. Wasmuth, 1929), by Hermann Degering (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Wandlungen in der schrift und in der kunst; rede gehalten bei der jubelfeier des Vereins deutscher schriftgiessereien am samstag dem 1. dezember 1928 in Frankfurt a. M. (Gutenberg-gesellschaft, 1929), by Rudolf Kautzsch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mediterranean studies ... (Stanford university press, 1930), by George Hempl and Frederick Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The origin and progress of the art of writing: a connected narrative 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, Phœnician, and Greek systems, and its subsequent progress to the present day. (Ingram, Cooke, 1853), by Henry Noel Humphreys (page images at HathiTrust)
• De re diplomatica libri vi. in quibus quidquid ad veterum instrumentorum antiquitatem, materiam, scripturam, & stilum : quidquid ad sigilla, monogrammata, subscriptiones, ae notas chronologicas; quidquid inde ad antiquariam, historicam, forensemque disciplinam pertinet, explicatur & illustratur (Sumtibus Ludovici Billaine, 1681), by Jean Mabillon (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of the art of writing (The Macmillan company, 1928), by William Albert Mason (page images at HathiTrust)
• Atlas ethnographique du globe. (Rey et Gravier, 1826), by Adriano Balbi (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)
• Le langage écrit, ses origines, son développement et son mécanisme intellectuels. (Société d'Éditions Scientifiques, 1897), by P. Kéraval (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grundlinien zu einer Entwickelungsgeschichte der Schrift von Dr. R. Stuebe ... (Deutsche Graphologische Gesellschaft, 1907), by Rudolf Stuebe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Geschichte der Stenographie im Zusammenhang mit der allgemeinen Entwicklung der Schrift und der Schriftkürzung. (F. Schrey, 1911), by Christian Johnen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Schreib- und Buchwesen einst und jetzt (Quelle & Meyer, 1922), by Albert Schramm (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• L'escriptura, lo gravat, l'imprempta, lo llibre per Josep Brunet y Bellet ... (Tip. "L'Avenc̜", 1898), by Joseph Brunet y Bellet (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of the alphabet (D. Appleton and company, 1900), by Edward Clodd (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Del materiale e degli istrumenti per scrivere usati dagli antichi e specialmente dai romani (V. Maisner e compagnia, 1882), by Alessandro Angelucci (page images at HathiTrust)
• Schrift- und Buchwesen in alter und neuer Zeit (B.G. Teubner, 1910), by Oskar Weise (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• De l'usage non interrompu jusqu'a nos jours des tablettes en cire (A. Franck, 1861), by Edélestand Du Méril (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die anfänge der schrift (Leipzig, 1912), by Theodor-Wilhelm Danzel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The story of the alphabet (N. T. A. Munder & co., printers, 1921), by Otto F. Ege (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Entstehung der Schrift, die verschiedenen Schriftsysteme und das Schrifttum der nicht alfabetarisch schreibenden Völker (In Commission bei T.D. Weigel, 1877), by Heinrich Wuttke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Schrift und Urkunde im Geschichtsunterricht (G. Müller, 1914), by Arthur Bauckner and Ig. Hösl (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Beginnings of writing in central and estern Asia, or, Notes on 450 embryo-writings and scripts. ([Washington, 1934), by Terrien de Lacouperie (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)
• 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)
• Schrift- und buchwesen in alter und neuer zeit. (B. G. Teubner, 1903), by Oskar Weise (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ueber Bildung und Entwicklung der Schrift. (C.G. Lüderitz, 1868), by Heinrich Karl Brugsch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zwei sprachvergleichende Abhandlungen. (F. Dümmler, 1836), by Richard Lepsius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essai sur l'origine de l'écriture : sur son introduction dans la Grèce et son usage jusqu'au tems d'Homère, c'est-a-dire jusqu'a l'an 1000 avant notre ère (Chez H. Fournier jeune et chez l'auteur, 1832), by Agricol Joseph François Fortia d'Urban (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)
• Histoire de l'écriture dans l'antiquité (Hachette, 1892), by Philippe Berger (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)
• Allgemeine geschichte der morgenlåndischen sprachen und litteratur ... Nebst einem anhang zur morgenlåndischen schriftgeschichte, mit elf tafeln in kupfer gestochner alphabete, (J. G. I. Breitkopf, 1784), by S. F. Günther Wahl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hieroglyphen und Buchstaben. Eine historische Studie ... (Fr. Hurter'sche Buchhandlung, 1860), by Heinrich Wilhelm Bensen (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)
• 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)
• Wie is die Schrift entstanden? (Verfassers, 1912), by Anton J. Vesely (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die schrift und ihre entwicklung ... (Schulze, 1909), by Fritz Specht (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Storia della scrittura ... (Sonzogno, 1920), by Attilio Rovinelli (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Storia delle scritture. (Soc. tip. edit. siciliana, 1922), by Mariano Pardo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Gesetze der Schriftgeschichte; Konfession und Schrift im Leben der Völker. (W. Braumüller, 1919), by Matthias Mieses (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Erfindung der Buchstabenschrift : ihr Zustand und frühester Gebrauch im Alterthum : mit Hinsicht auf die neuesten Untersuchungen über den Homer (In der Wohlerschen Buchhandlung, 1801), by J. Leonhard Hug (page images at HathiTrust)
• Illi͡ustrirovannai͡a vseobshchai͡a istorīi͡a pisʹmenʺ s 155 risunkami i 19 otdi͡elʹnymy tablit͡sami (Izd. A.F. Marksa, 1903), by I͡A. B. Shnit͡ser (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kitap (Matbaa-yı Safa ve Enver, 1893), by Necip Asım (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire de l'écriture dans l'antiquité. (Imprimerie nationale, 1891), by Philippe Berger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Paper, pens, and ink: a brief sketch of the principal writing materials used in all ages; with a chapter on how and when we began to write. (D. Bryce & Son, 1878), by Daniel Frazer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die entwicklung der schrift (F. Dümmler, 1852), by Heymann Steinthal (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pre-alphabet days (N.T.A. Munder & company, inc., 1923), by Otto F. Ege (page images at HathiTrust)
• Versuch einer Geschichte der Schreibkunst. (Justus Friedrich Danckwerts, 1807), by Christian Friedrich Weber (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of the alphabet (S. S. McClure, 1909), by Edward Clodd (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)
• History of writing. (Day and Son, 1855), by Henry Noel Humphreys (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of the alphabet. (D. Appleton and Co., 1927), by Edward Clodd (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)
• The story of the alphabet (D. Appleton and company, 1904), by Edward Clodd (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Geschichte der schrift und des schrifttums von den rohen anfängen des schreibens in der tatuirung bis zur legung elektromagnetischer dräthe. (T. O. Weigel, 1877), by Heinrich Wuttke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das buch der schrift (K. K. Hof- und staatsdruckerei, 1880), by Karl Faulmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• De literaturae phoneticae origine atque indole disseruit (apud F. Duemmlerum, 1858), by Wihelm Geisler (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Kitābah wa-al-kuttāb (Maṭbaʻat Miṣr, 1910), by ʻAlī Aḥmad Shahīdī (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rašto istorija ("Lietuvos", 1906), by A. B. Schnitzer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of the alphabet (Hodder and Stoughton, 1913), by Edward Clodd (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The story of the alphabet (McClure, Phillips & Co., 1904), by Edward Clodd (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Abbildungen zur Geschichte der Schrift. 1. Heft (Ernst Fleischer, 1873), by Heinrich Wuttke (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of the alphabet (D. Appleton and company, 1915), by Edward Clodd (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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 (Printed by T. Bensley for J. White, 1803), by Thomas Astle, Henry Howard, and William Skelton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of the alphabet; an account of the origin and development of letters (C. Scribner's Sons, 1899), by Isaac Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of the alphabet (Appleton, 1915), by Edward Clodd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Arte de escribir por reglas y con muestras : segun la doctrina de los mejores autores antiguas y modernos, estrangeros y nacionales : acompañado de unos principios de aritmética, gramática y ortografía castellana, urbanidad y varios sistemas para la formacion y enseñanza de los principales caractéres que se usan en Europa (Vidua de Joaquin Ibarra, 1802), by Torquato Torío de la Riva y Herrero (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beginnings of writing in central and eastern Asia, or, Notes on 450 embryo-writings and scripts (D. Nutt, 1894), by Terrien de Lacouperie (page images at HathiTrust)
• De re diplomatica libri VI : in quibus quidquid ad veterum instrumentorum antiquitatem, materiam, scripturam, & stilum, quidquid ad sigilla, monogrammata, subscriptiones, ac notas chronologicas, quidquid inde ad antiquariam, historicam, forensemque disciplinam pertinet, explicatur & illustratur : accedunt Commentarius de antiquis regum Francorum palatiis : veterum scripturarum varia specimina, tabulis LX comprehensa : nova ducentorum, & amplius, monumentorum collectio (Bibliopola, 1965), by Jean Mabillon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The origin and progress of writing, as well hieroglyphic as elementary. (AMS Press, 1973), by Thomas Astle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Writing in the middle ages : a bibliography ... (Industrial Arts Cooperative Service], 1930), by La Reta Creer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The history of the art of writing. (s.n., 1902), by Henry Smith Williams (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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)
• The story of the alphabet (D. Appleton and company, 1905), by Edward Clodd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Hallische Lehntafel ([publisher not identified], 1867), by W Wattenbach (page images at HathiTrust)
• The roman letter; a study of notable graven and written forms from twenty centuries. (Lakeside Press, 1952), by James Hayes and Lakeside Press (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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