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Fry, Edmund.

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.

London: 1799. Printed by Cooper & Wilson.. Royal 8vo [2 blanks]+2 
leaves+xxxvi+320+[2 blanks].  Profusely illustrated with examples of 
hundreds of alphabets and the occasional tailpiece from engravings.  Full 
contemporary polished calf with gilt rules and decorations, gilt dentelles 
extra; leather spine label; marbled endpapers.  This has been rebacked, 
probably in early to mid 20th century. Original boards are somewhat scuffed 
and worn at edges but still quite attractive; hinges are weak toward the 
head of the spine.  Small Hazard's sticker and large armorial bookplate of 
John Moore Paget on front pastedown, else, with the exception of some minor 
foxing on a few pages, the interior is fine.  ...        US$ 1000.00

Fry was an eminent, and probably the most learned, type-founder of his 
day.  See Bigmore & Wyman, p. 273. Also Lowndes, Vol II, p. 753.


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