Shady Characters

The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks

Cover Art for 9780393064421, Shady Characters by Keith Houston
ISBN: 9780393064421
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 24 September, 2013
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Links Australian Libraries (Trove)
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Revealing the secret history of punctuation, this delightful tour of 2,000 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.

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