by Georges Jean · Thames & Hudson · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780500300169
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«Writing: The Story of Alphabets and Scripts» is Georges Jean's essay on the history of writing (Thames & Hudson, paperback, 208 pages).
It covers six millennia of writing history: from the cuneiform characters of Mesopotamia and Egyptian hieroglyphs to the Phoenician alphabet and its later evolution. It includes medieval manuscripts, the invention of printing and modern typography, with illustrations and fold-outs.
Essay originally published in French as «L'écriture, mémoire des hommes» (1987); this English translation is from 1992 and is part of the New Horizons collection.
Jean-Georges is a two-Michelin-star restaurant at 1 Central Park West, on the lobby level of the Trump International Hotel and Tower, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City, named after its owner Jean-Georges Vongerichten.
