BIBLIOGRAPHY ON ALPHABETS

& WRITING SYSTEMS

Adam Blatner, M.D.
<<http://www.blatner.com/adam/level2/scriprefs.htm>>
31.03.2010
Revised April 2, 2009 (Please also see my comments on "Scriptology")
Also sections near the bottom on:
codes
the history of numbers
lettering, typography, calligraphy
literacy
Mayan
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This new large anthology has many interesting articles. Translated from the French (Histoire
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Gabrial, Brian 200!". #istor$ of writin% technolo%ies &hapter 2, pp. 23'33". (n
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Goody, Jack. (See books on Literacy)
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New York: Nevraumont/McGraw-Hill. (Nice references!)
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Organization.
Vachek, Josef. (1989). Written language revisited. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. (functional
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Codes:
Bielewicz, Julian A. (1976). Secret languages: Communicating in codes and ciphers. New York:
Elsevier/Nelson.
Brumbaugh, Robert S. (Ed.) (1978). The most mysterious manuscript: The Voynich "Roger
Bacon" cipher manuscript. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press. 1500s, 200 pages
magic & scientifc allusions.
Butler, William S. & Keeny, L. Douglas. (2001). Secret messages: Concealment, codes, and
other types of ingenious communication. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Friedman, W.F. (ed.) (1976). Cryptography and cryptanalysis. (Articles from journal, 1925-
1940s). Laguna Hills, CA: Aegean Park Press. (po box 3837, zip 92653)
Haldane, R.A. (1976). The hidden world. New York: St. Martin's Press.
Janeczko, Paul B. (1984). Loads of codes and secret ciphers. New York: MacMillan.
Kahn, David. (1967). The codebreakers: The story of secret writing. New York: MacMillan. (thick
book.)
Peterson, John. (1966). How to write codes and send secret messages. New York: Scholastic
Book Services.
Way, Peter. (1977). Codes and ciphers. London: Aldus Books.
Wrixon, Fred B. (1989). Codes, ciphers, and secret languages. London: Harrap Books.
Numbers
Gullberg, Jan. (1997). Mathematics from the birth of numbers. New York: W.W. Norton.
Ifrah, Georges. (1985). From one to zero: A universal history of numbers. New York:
Viking/Penguin.
Ifrah, Georges. (2000). The universal history of numbers: From prehistory to the invention of the
computer. (Translated from the French by D. Bellos et al.). New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Menninger, Karl. (1977). Number words and number symbols: A cultural history of numbers
(Revised Ed.) Cambridge, MA: M.I.T.Press.

Literacy
Baron, Naomi S. (1981). Speech, writing, & sign: A functional view of linguistic representation.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Baumann, Gerd (Ed.). (1986). The written word: Literacy in transition. Oxford: Clarendon.
Bowman, Alan K. & Woolf. (1994). Literacy and power in the ancient world. Cambridge
University Press.
Finnegan, Ruth. (1988). Literacy and orality: Studies in the technology of communication. New
York: Basil Blackwell.
Goody, Jack. (1977). The domestication of the savage mind. Cambridge, Enland: Cambridge
University Press. (Note esp, chap 5, "What is in a list?", pp 74-111.)
Goody, Jack. (1986). The logic of writing and the organization of society. Cambridge (Great
Britain): Cambridge University Press.
Goody, Jack. (1987). The interface between the written and the oral. Cambridge, England:
Cambridge University Press.
Goody, Jack. (2000). The power of the written tradition. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution
Press.
Ong, Walter J. (1982). Orality and literacy. New York: Methuen.
Olson, David R. (1994). The world on paper. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
Stephens, Mitchell. (1998). The rise of the image, the fall of the word. New York: Oxford
University Press. 198 Madison Ave. Ny 10016.
Lettering, Typography, Calligraphy:
Anderson, Donald M. (1969/1992). Calligraphy: The art of written forms. New York: Dover.
Baker, Arthur. (1975). Calligraphy. New York: Dover.
Biegeleisen, J. I. (1982). Handbook of typefaces and lettering. New York: Arco
Blumenthal, Joseph. (1982). Typographic years: A printers journey through a half century 1925-
1975. New York: Frederic C. Beil.
Ga2r, 3lbertine. 1445". A history of calligraphy. 6ew 7or8: &ross 9iver :ress.
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Batsford.
Goudy, Frederic W. (1942). The alphabet and elements of lettering. (Revised Ed.) Berkely, CA:
University of California Press. (1st in 1918)
Grafton, Carol B.(Ed.) (1982?). Bizarre and ornamental alphabets. New York: Dover.
Gray, Nicolete. (1986). A history of lettering. Boston: David R. Godine.
Haley, Allan. (1995),. Alphabet: The history, evolution, and design of the lettes we use today.
New York: Watson-Guptill Publications/ BPI.
Hornung, Clarence. (?197?). Lettering from A to Z. New York: Wm. Penn Publishing.
;2r$, +avid. 200!". #istor$ of t$po%raph$ &hapter 3, pp. 3<'=3". (n Ba)erman1s
antholo%$, see above.
Lai, T.C. (1973). Chinese calligraphy: An introduction. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
Larcher, Jean. (1976). Fantastic alphabets: 24 original alphabets. New York: Dover.
Lawther, Gail & Christopher. (1987). You can learn lettering and calligraphy. Cincinnati, OH:
North Light Books.
Long, Jean. (1987). The art of Chinese calligraphy. Dorset, NY: Blandford/Sterling.
Meggs, Philip B. (1983). A history of typography. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold.
Mote, Frederick W. & Chu, Hung-lam. (1989). Calligraphy and the East Asian book. Boston:
Shambhala.
Nesbitt, Alexander. (1957). The history & technique of lettering. New York: Dover.
Potter, Tony. (1987). Lettering & Typography. London: Usborne.
Schimmel, Anne Marie. (1983). Calligraphy and Islamic culture. New York: N.Y.U. Press.
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