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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.

Title: 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, M.D. ...
Author: Thornton, William, 1759-1828.
Publication: Philadelphia, Printed by R. Aitken & Son, 1793.

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Description

vii, (1)10-110 p., 1 fold. table.; 8vo.

Alternative Title

Cadmus
Treatise on the elements of written language
Prize dissertation, which was honored with the Magellanic gold medal, by the American Philosophical Society, January, 1793

Subjects

Note

Also issued, the same year, in the Transactions of the society, v. 3, p. 262-319.

Indexed In (note)

Evans

Call Number

*KD 1793 (Thornton, W. Cadmus)

LCCN

11010932

OCLC

9823160

Author

Thornton, William, 1759-1828.

Title

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, M.D. ...

Imprint

Philadelphia, Printed by R. Aitken & Son, 1793.

Indexed In:

Evans 26258

Local Note

Lenox Collection.

One leaf of Errata on different paper, inserted after title-page.

Autograph presentation copy from the author, Dec. 20, 1812, to John Howard Payne, the author of "Home sweet home." With a note in the author's hand inserted at page 47.

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*KD 1793 (Thornton, W. Cadmus)

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