For all script enthousiasts: A supplement (bekkan) to the Sanseido Encyclopaedia of Linguistics (Japanese: Gengogaku Daijiten) has appeared under the title Sekai Moji Jiten: (Scripts and Writing Systems of the World). It is a very dense, hefty volume of 1222 pages. It treats historical and current scripts, in general in much, much greater detail (and many more varieties; Nora script, anyone?) than Bright & Daniels. A great strength is of course Asian scripts (India, China, SE Asia), which tend to get short shift in general Western publications. It's definitely a major work, combining the characteristics of, but going beyond both books of the Bright & Daniels variety, and those of the Dirringer/Jensen compendia kind.
Of course, the entries (which have bibliographies, many in Western languages) are in Japanese; I don't think the numerous illustrations are sufficient for a non-Japanese reader, even if headings have an English equivalent. Moreover, it is very pricy: I just checked at Amazon Japan, and the price quoted is Y48,000. Nevertheless, if you're serious about scripts and know Japanese, you should check it out. 言語学大辞典 別巻 世界文字辞典 河野六郎・千野栄一・西田龍雄 編著 50,400（48,000）円 B5 本製・箱入り 1,232頁 4-385-15177-6 Martin Heijdra Chinese Bibliographer East Asian Library and the Gest Collection Frist Campus Center, Room 317 Princeton University 33 Frist Campus Center Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
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