(LANGUAGE) [Thornton William] Prize Dissertation Cadmus o

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(LANGUAGE.) [Thornton, William.] Prize Dissertation . . . Cadmus, or a Treatise on the Elements of Written Language. Folding table. Small 8vo, disbound, defective plain front wrapper; title page quite defective, with part of errata slip cello-taped to bottom, gatherings H and I transposed, scattered early annotations; early owner's signature on front wrapper. [Philadelphia, 1793?]

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An important volume on phonetics which includes an essay, "On Teaching the Surd, or Deaf and Consequently Dumb, to Speak." Evans 26258; Sabin 95646.