Typophile - Please help me with a book recommendation - Comments

Check Google Books and

James Puckett — Wed, 5 Mar 2008 11:39:27 -0800

Check Google Books and Microsoft Books for Mason’s History of the Art of Writing. It’s very old and very thorough.

Warren Chappell’s A Short

Alexandre Bélanger — Wed, 5 Mar 2008 08:18:54 -0800

Warren Chappell’s A Short History of the Printed Word is really good but it covers only the printing period. It was updated by Robert Bringhurst.

On a much more “calligraphic” or writing approach, George Jean’s L’Écriture mémoire des hommes is really good, if you understand French. It was republished by Gallimard in 2007.

I have one but it’s in

Alessandro Segalini — Mon, 3 Mar 2008 11:21:18 -0800

I have one but it’s in Italian, the title is at the very bottom of this page :
http://www.gregorietti.it/GROU.html

Please help me with a book recommendation

Christopher Dean — Mon, 3 Mar 2008 10:35:57 -0800

Can you please recommend one that covers the history of alphabets, writing, printing etc.

Thank you.