Collection (publishing)

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In the field of book publishing, a collection or, more precisely, editorial collection, is a set of books published by the same publisher, usually written by various authors, each book with its own ti

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Le Nez qui voque [fr] by Réjean Ducharme

Évariste [fr] by François-Henri Désérable

Writing: The Story of Alphabets and Scripts

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Writing: The Story of Alphabets and Scripts is a 1987 illustrated monograph on the history of the alphabet and writing. Written by French linguist Georges Jean, and published by Éditions Gallimard as

First French edition. Centre: traditional Chinese character for "brush" by Ru Xiaofan [fr], 20th century; counterclockwise from bottom left: The Book Peddler, 16th-century wood engraving, Musée Carnavalet, Paris; detail of a plate entitled L'Art d'écrire, from the Encyclopédie, 1763; cover of a Kufic Koran from the Maghreb, photograph; hieroglyphic cartouche in Voyage en Égypte, Jean-François Champollion.

Title page illustration: illuminated capital from a 15th-century French manuscript. Bibl. Nat., Paris.

Back cover illustration: Jean Gerson writing. 15th-century French manuscript. Bibl. Nat., Paris.

"In the Middle Ages a form of sacred writing became established in the monasteries. Beautifully designed and executed, it reflected the serenity of both those who created it and the setting in which they worked." Illuminated capital from a bible dating to the 12th or early 13th century. Coimbra, Portugal (G. Jean, Writing, p. 73).