Prize dissertation, which was honored with the Magellanic Gold Medal, by the American Philosophical Society, January, 1793. 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. /
Thornton, William,1759-1828.
Thornton, William,1759-1828,donor.StEdNL
Wharton, Charles H.,1748-1833,former owner.StEdNL
St. Mary's Episcopal Church (Burlington, N.J.),former owner.StEdNL
American Philosophical Society.
Philadelphia: : Printed by R. Aitken & Son, No. 22. Market Street.,
M.DCC.XCIII. [1793]
With a folded letterpress leaf and a smaller format errata leaf.
There are two variant issues which, apart from the imprints, appear to be identical: Variant 1. [ESTC 41523] Philadelphia: printed by R. Aitken & Son, No. 22. Market Street ; variant 2 [ESTC W28962] Philadelphia: printed by R. Aitken & Son, for the author, and sold by J. Debrett, bookseller, London.
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Ownership sticker on the front pastedown "Parish Library of St. Mary's Church, Burlington, N.J. no. 35". Sticker on the verso of the front free endpaper "The Rector's Library of St. Mary's Church, Burlington, N.J. Presented by the Rev. Charles H. Wharton, D.D.". Manuscript inscription at the head of the title page "Charles H. Wharton dono / auctoris". The author's presentation copy on the first American work on the education of the deaf.
Contemporary green morocco bound by Robert Aitken featuring elaborate gilt neo-classical borders built up using rolls, rules and various small tools, marbled endpapers and gilt edges.
United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.