Writing and the Manuscript Book - Alphabet, Lettering, Epigraphy

Lot Comprises:

Michael S. Macrakis, ed., Greek Letters from Tablets to Pixels, New Castle, DE, Oak Knoll Press, 1996, fol., publisher's green cloth, dust jacket

Florence Vuilleumier Laurens & Pierre Laurens, L'âge de l'inscription : La rhétorique du monument en Europe du XVe au XVIIe siècle (Le Cabinet des Images 2), Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 2010, 4to., publisher's glossy wrappers

David Diringer, The Alphabet, a Key to the History of Mankind, New York, 1948, publisher's blue cloth, spine label

Nicolete Gray, A history of lettering : creative experiment and letter identity, Boston, 1986, 4to., publisher's black cloth, dust jacket

Edward Johnston, Writing and Illuminating and Lettering (The Artistic Crafts Series of Technical Handbooks), New York & London, (1906), reprint 1962, 8vo., publisher's green cloth, dust jacket

Armando Petrucci, Public Lettering: Script, Power and Culture (translated by Linda Lappin), Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1993, 4to., publisher's red cloth, dust jacket

John Sparrow, Visible Words, A Study of Inscriptions in and as Books and Works of Art, Cambridge, 1969, fol., publisher's grey cloth, dust jacket

Sold as a group, not subject to return.