Two weeks since my initial inquiry, I was pleased to receive an email
from Oxford announcing the forthcoming Fall Sale, including "The
World's Writing Systems" for a mere $50. There is a God...
---AB
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The World's Writing Systems
Edited by Peter T. Daniels and William Bright
"Without question the most comprehensive work ever published on this
subject."--Times Literary Supplement. This is the only work in
English to cover all of the world's writing systems from ancient
times to the present, showing how alphabets, ideograms, pictographs,
and hieroglyphics convey meaning in graphic form.