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 : 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 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.
| Author/creator |
Thornton, William, 1759-1828 |
| Other author/creator | American Philosophical Society. |
| Format | Book and Microform |
| Publication Info | Philadelphia : Printed by R. Aitken & Son, for the author, and sold by J. Debrett, bookseller, London, M.DCC.XCIII. [1793] |
| Description | vii, 2 unnumbered pages, 10-110 pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf ; 21 cm (8vo) |
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| Uniform title | Cadmus |
| Series | Early American imprints. First series ; no. 26258 Early American imprints. First series ; no. 26258. ^A478749 |
| General note | Signatures: [A]1 chi²(chi1 + 2chi² 3chi²) B-N⁴ (chi1 recto blank). |
| References | Evans 26258 |
| Reproduction note | Joyner- Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 26258). |
| Other title | Cadmus: or, A treatise on the elements of written language. |
| Other title | Prize dissertation ... |
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