A Report Upon Phonotypy From The Proceedings Of The American Academy Of Arts And Sciences

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Cambridge: Metcalf and Company, printers to the University, 1847. 8vo, pp. 16; self-wrappers; recto of first leaf and verso of the last are toned and dusty, some spotting, bookplate removed; otherwise generally very good. On the subject of how language is represented by printed types, reprinting a table by Sir William Jones, probably the earliest philosophical analysis of the sounds of the English language which have been published in English, and a

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