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 : with an essay on the mode of teaching the surd or deaf, and consequently dumb, to speak
By: by William Thornton ...
Contributors: Force, Peter, 1790-1868, former owner.; American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress); Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress); Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed by R. Aitken & Son ...
Published: 1793
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 110
Subjects: Phonetic alphabet.; Deaf -- Means of communication -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Cadmus; Treatise on the elements of written language; Prize dissertation, which was honored with the Magellanic gold medal, by the American Philosophical Society, January, 1793
Notes: Evans 26258
Signatures: [A]⁴ ([A]1+chi⁴) B-N⁴.
Errata leaf (chi4) bound after title page.
LC copy misbound with p. [iii]-[viii] between p. 14 and 15; errata leaf wanting.