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This unique, ambitious, and entertaining book presents twenty-nine scripts in detail and offers examples of a hundred more. Written in nontechnical prose and organized into brief but comprehensive sections, it will serve as a handy reference for world travelers, stamp collectors, and calligraphers, and provide hours of reading enjoyment to those who are fascinated by the written symbol itself.Nakanishi, Akira is the author of 'Writing Systems of the World: Alphabets, Syllabaries, Pictograms - Akira Nakanishi - Hardcover - English-language ed' with ISBN 9780804812931 and ISBN 0804812934.
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