Con 339 ilustraciones.

I. The Alphabet in Context -- II. Origins and Historians -- III. The Alphabet in Classical History, Philosophy and Divination -- IV. Gnosticism, Hermeticism, Neo-Platonism and Neo-Pythagoreanism: The Alphabet in the Hellenistic and Early Christian Era -- V. Calligraphy, Alchemy and Ars Combinatoria in the Medieval Period -- VI. The Kabbalah -- VII. Rationalizing the Alphabet: Construction, Real Character and Philosophical Languages in the Renaissance -- VIII. The Social Contract, Primitivism and Nationalism: The Alphabet in the 18th Century --
IX. The Alphabet in the 19th Century: Advertising, Visible Speech and Narratives of History -- X. 20th Century: Eclecticism, Technology and the Idiosyncratic Imagination.