The Story of Books. G. B. Rawlings.
Books in Manuscript. Falconer Madan.
Books and Their Makers in the Middle Ages. Vol. I. G. H. Putnam.
Encyclopædia Britannica. Eleventh Edition.
Articles:
Alphabet (very scholarly and in large part suitable only for very advanced students.)
Paleography.
Manuscript.
Book.
Libraries.
Bookbinding.
Bookselling.
Papyrus.
Paper.
Ink, and many others which will suggest themselves during the study of the articles named.
REVIEW QUESTIONS
1. Name some of the earliest devices for communicating ideas to the absent.
2. What was the most important of these devices, and why?
3. What is an ideogram?