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
Subtitle: illustrating, by a philosophical division of speech, the power of each character, thereby mutually fixing the orthography and orthoepy. : [One line in Latin from Horace] : With an essay on the mode of teaching the surd or deaf, and consequently dumb, to speak.
By: By William Thornton, M.D. member of the Societies of Scots Antiquaries of Edinburgh and Perth; the Medical Society, and the Society of Nautical Hist. of Edin: the American Philosophical Society, &c.
Contributors: American Philosophical Society.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 26258.
Publisher: Printed by R. Aitken & Son, for the author, and sold by J. Debrett, bookseller, London.
Published: 1793
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 110
Subjects: Phonetic alphabet.; Alphabet.; Deaf -- Means of communication.
Other titles: Cadmus: or, A treatise on the elements of written language.; Prize dissertation ...
Work titles: Cadmus.
Notes: Signatures: [A]1 chi²(chi1 + 2chi² 3chi²) B-N⁴ (chi1 recto blank).

Evans 26258.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 26258).