Books Before Typography - A Primer of Information About the Invention of the Alphabet and the History of Book-Making up to the Invention of Movable Types - Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #49

Project Gutenberg's Books Before Typography, by Frederick W. Hamilton This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Books Before Typography Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #49 Author: Frederick W. Hamilton Release Date: December 30, 2009 [EBook #30803] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BOOKS BEFORE TYPOGRAPHY *** Produced by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier, Stephanie Eason, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. TYPOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERIES FOR APPRENTICES—PART VIII —NO. 49 BOOKS BEFORE TYPOGRAPHY A PRIMER of INFORMATION ABOUT THE INVENTION OF THE ALPHABET AND THE HISTORY OF BOOK-MAKING UP TO THE INVENTION OF MOVABLE TYPES BY FREDERICK W. HAMILTON, LL.D. EDUCATIONAL DIRECTOR UNITED TYPOTHETÆ OF AMERICA PUBLISHED BY THE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION UNITED TYPOTHETAE OF AMERICA 1918 Copyright, 1918 United Typothetae of America Chicago, Ill. PREFACE N attempt has been made in this book to trace briefly the story of theA book from the earliest attempts made by mankind to convey a message by marks on some substance down to the invention of movable types.