John Hudson wrote:

>
> At 01:23 PM 19-07-02, Peter T. Daniels wrote:
>
> >I hope you somehow found an original printing (lucky you! all I have is
> >a photocopy) and not the reprint by "Gorgias Press," which unaccountably
> >reprinted the 1883 original rather than the 1899 "second edition," which
> >added a page or so of Corrigenda. (I don't know whether there are any
> >changes in the body of the book.)
> >
> >For a fuller appreciation, see my article in Israel Oriental Studies 20
> >(2000), which was supposed to be published about two years ago.

Which is to say, no one seems to know what's delaying it.

> The Isaac book is indeed wonderfu. I picked up an ex-library copy of the
> 1899 edition a couple of years ago.
>
> From the same period there is _Histoire de l'écriture dans l'antiquité_ by
> M. Philippe Berger (Imprimerie nationale, 1891, pour le ministere de
> l'instruction publique et des beaux-arts). My French really isn't good
> enough to be able to compare the quality of the text to Isaac's (certainly,
> the book is much shorter, being only one volume), but many of the
> illustrations are comparable.

How nice to be on a first-name basis with Canon Taylor!

I've never seen the Berger (but I do have cheap recent reprints of the
two Faulmann volumes -- pretty pictures, quite laughable).
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...