The Story of Writing, from Cave Art to Computer,

An introductory work for young readers on the history of writing: pre-alphabetic systems, alphabets and syllabaries, numerals, writing implements, the invention of printing, and machine writing typewriter, typesetting machines, computers . With many black and white illustrations. Dust jacket chipped, missing piece. 128 pages, with 4 additional pages of plates. large 8vo, 1963, cloth, dust jacket..