Cadmus
Subtitle: 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: by William Thornton
Publisher: Printed by R. Aitken & Son, for the author
Published: 1793
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 110
Subjects: Language and languages; Orthography and spelling; Spelling reform; Language; Writing; Education of Hearing Disabled; Nonverbal Communication; Deaf; Means of communication; Phonetic alphabet
Other titles: Cadmus.; A treatise on the elements of written language.
Notes: Signatures: [A]8, B-N4.

Leaf of errata inserted after title page.

Evans 26258.

At head of title: Prize dissertation, which was honored with the Magellanic gold medal, by the American Philosophical Society, January, 1793.