Politics and script : aspects of authority and freedom in the development of Graeco-Latin script from the sixth century B.C. to the twentieth century A.D.

Publication Data

• Title Politics and script : aspects of authority and freedom in the development of Graeco-Latin script from the sixth century B.C. to the twentieth century A.D.
• Author Stanley Morison
• Contributor Nicolas Barker
• Publisher Clarendon Press
• Publication date 1972
• Publication location Oxford
• Language English

Descriptive Notes

'Based on...[Morison's] 1957 Lyell Lectures, but much expanded and reworked before his death...' - book jacket.
Bibliographyp.341-345. _ Includes index.

Topics

• Writing :: History
• Paleography
• Lettering

Politics and script : aspects of authority and freedom in the development of Graeco-Latin script from the sixth century B.C. to the twentieth century A.D. by Stanley Morison. ISBN 0198181469. Published by Clarendon Press in 1972. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.