| Title: |
Pantographia; Containing Accurate Copies of all the Known Alphabets in the World; Together with an English Explanation of the Peculiar Force or Power of Each Letter: To Which are Added, Specimens of all Well-Authenticated Oral Languages; Forming a Comprehensive Digest of Phonology. Printed by Cooper and Wilson. 1799. First Edition, [ii],xxxvi,320pp., faint blind stamp on title-page, also a number in ink, cont. half calf, re-backed, leather label on spine. Bigmore & Wyman I, p.243; Birrell & Garnett 93; Updike II, p.120; Reed, p.307. [Sold with:] Prospectus of a New Work, Entitled Pantographia... By Edmund Fry, Letter Founder. |
| Description: |
[London, 1798]. 11,[1]pp., letterpress half-title within an engraved vignette, 4 illustrs., in the text, stitched as issued, 2 gentle fold lines. Fry, 1754-1835, eminent English type-founder, spent 16 years of research in producing the present important collection of over 200 alphabets with specimens of the languages. The alphabets are arranged in alphabetical order on the left-hand pages of the book, and their renderings are given opposite. ESTC records 2 copies of the Prospectus in the British Isles (L;C) and 2 in America (NN;TxU). |
