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Shady characters : the secret life of punctuation, symbols & other typographical marks /

Revealing the secret history of punctuation, this tour of two thousand years of the written word, from ancient Greece to the Internet, explores the parallel histories of language and typography throughout the world and across time.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Houston, Keith, 1977-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2013]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Punctuation > History.
Signs and symbols > History.
Type and type-founding > History.
Writing > History.
Description
Summary:Revealing the secret history of punctuation, this tour of two thousand years of the written word, from ancient Greece to the Internet, explores the parallel histories of language and typography throughout the world and across time.
Physical Description:xi, 340 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780393064421 (hbk.)
0393064425 (hbk.)