Product Description
A Place For Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order
Author: Judith Flanders
Format: Paperback
Few of us give the alphabet much thought once we have learned it, yet its familiar order still shapes daily life, from dictionaries and library shelves to school registers and electoral rolls. In this history, Judith Flanders traces the gradual triumph of alphabetical order as a tool for sorting knowledge, from the Great Library of Alexandria to its fading prominence in the digital age.
Along the way she introduces a memorable cast of collectors, booksellers and cataloguers who helped bring the system about.
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