The Alphabet Abecedamrium. Some Notes on Letters.

FIRMAGE, RICHARD A.

ISBN 10: 0747547572 / ISBN 13: 9780747547570

Editore: London-Oxford-New York, Bloomsbury. 1993

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Original publisher's black paper-covered boards, silver title spine, pictorial dustjacket, 1st English edition [1993], 8vo: frontispiece, illustration title-page,xij, 308pp., richly illustrated with characters, foreword, dictionary A - Z and & sign, bibliography, index, table of contents. Dustjacket some wear of use. Fine copy. Codice articolo 533649

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Titolo: The Alphabet Abecedamrium. Some Notes on ...

Casa editrice: London-Oxford-New York, Bloomsbury. 1993

Legatura: Rilegato

Condizione sovraccoperta: sovraccoperta

Edizione: prima edizione

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Drawing from mythology, cosmology, history, the Bible, literature, and esoteric and conventional sources, this book takes the reader on a tour of each of the twenty-six letters that comprise one of civilisation's greatest inventions, the Roman alphabet. In chapters that are descriptive, illustrative, and diverse, we are shown the history and development of every letter, how its shape evolved, how its characteristics were encoded, and how its history, attributes, and meanings were reflected in myth, literature, science, and religion.