The 26 letters /

By:

Ogg, Oscar [author,, book designer.]

Contributor(s):

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : T.Y. Crowell, 1948Description: 254 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

Audience:

Children

Other title:

Twenty-six letters

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

LOC classification:

P211 .O4

Available additional physical forms:

Also issued online.

Contents:

Before history -- The Egyptians -- The Phoenicians -- The Greeks -- The Romans -- Small letters -- Caroline and Gothic letters -- The invention of type -- Printing and the alphabet.

Summary: "Beginning with the earliest man (35, 000-15,000 B. C.), his implements and his culture, this ... book traces through the centuries the development of writing from the earliest cave drawings in northern Spain to the modern linotype."

List(s) this item appears in: Richardson Collection

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Barcode
Reference	Carleton University, AVRC	Richardson Collection - Non CIrculating - Call No. Accompanied by Red Dot	Open-stacks	P211 .O4 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not for loan	16055001518

T.p. and illustrations in red and black.

Signed on lining page "24/2/29 D.S. Richardson 21 Dencliffe Dr., Toronto R, Ont - Bought for my Birthday from Mother & Father"

"This book has been designed by the author ... Composition was done by the Van Rees Composition Company, printing by the Cornwall Press, Inc., and binding by the Charles H. Bohn Bindery. The body type is 14-point Linotype Caslon Old Face, chapter heads are 18-point A.T.F. Caslon 471." -- Colophon.

Before history -- The Egyptians -- The Phoenicians -- The Greeks -- The Romans -- Small letters -- Caroline and Gothic letters -- The invention of type -- Printing and the alphabet.

Also issued online.

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