The universal character, by which all the nations in the world may understand one anothers conceptions, reading out of one common writing and their own mother tongues. : An invention of general use, the practice whereof may be attained in two hours space, observing the grammatical directions. Which character is so contrived, that it may be spoken as well as written. /
Beck, Cave,1623-1706?
E. K.
London, : Printed by Tho. Maxey, for William Weekley, and and [sic] are to be sould at his shop in Ipswich.,
1657..
A system of communication based on Arabic numerals and a few letters.
With an additional title page, engraved, "The univercall caracter. .. Sold by J: Rothwell att ye Fountaine in Cheapside."
Signatures: A-M8.
The first leaf bears "The mind of the frontispiece", signed E.K.
With a final advertisement leaf.
ESTC
Wing (2nd ed., 1994)
Language, Universal
Language, Universal