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(UNIVERSAL WRITING.) The Description and Explanation of a "Universal Character," or, Manner of Writing, that may be Intelligible to the Inhabitants of Every Country,although Ignorant of Each Others Language. 36 (of 37?) lithographed plates, comprising 19 numbered 2-20, and 17 unnumbered, depicting pictographs and their equivalents in English. [4], [3]-48, [3] pages, including errata leaf. 4to, modern cloth-backed boards. Title inscribed: "From the Author." Bath: J. Hollway, 1830s
first edition of an anonymous treatise describing a new symbolic language. "Published sometime in the 1830s, it attempts to reduce to a minimum the number of arbitrary symbols to be memorized"--Philip Mills Arnold Semeiology Collection 44.
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