Cadmus: or, a treatise on the elements of written language, illustrating, by a philosophical division of speech, the power of each character, thereby mutually fixing the orthography and orthoepy. With an essay on the mode of teaching the surd or deaf, and consequently dumb, to speak / by William Thornton.

  • Thornton, William, 1759-1828.
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1793
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Cadmus: or, a treatise on the elements of written language, illustrating, by a philosophical division of speech, the power of each character, thereby mutually fixing the orthography and orthoepy. With an essay on the mode of teaching the surd or deaf, and consequently dumb, to speak / by William Thornton. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Cadmus
A treatise on the elements of written language

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Philadelphia : Printed by R. Aitken & Son, for the author, 1793.

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2 unnumbered pages, 110 pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates : folded table, illustrations ; (8vo)

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Signatures: [A]8, B-N4
Leaf of errata inserted after title page

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Evans 26258

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At head of title: Prize dissertation, which was honored with the Magellanic gold medal, by the American Philosophical Society, January, 1793

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