"The Little Book of Egyptian Hieroglyphs" by Lesley and Roy Adkins
Hodder & Stoughton | 2001 | ISBN: 0340794917 | 192 pages | PDF/djvu | 19/9 MB
This is the book to make the basics of hieroglyphs truly easy to understand. Explaining briefly the history and development of the language, it then gives the Egyptian alphabet and shows how simple it is to spell your own name using hieroglyphs. In short this is the complete introduction for any visitor to Egypt, student of the language, or just the fascinated layman.