[Rarebooks] FS: Fry's "Pantographia" with over 200 alphabets. London: 1799

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(TYPOGRAPHY) 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: Printed by Cooper and Wilson for John and Arthur Arch et al. 1799. First 
edition. Lg. 8vo. (4),xxxvi,320pp. Illustrated with examples of over 200 
alphabets. Woodcut device on title page. Modern rose cloth, slightly faded, with 
brown calf spine label.     $500.00 (trade discount allowed)

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