Accession Number: 2001.62.1
Subtitle: On the Principle of the Combination of Elementary Sounds
Summary/Description: Includes a key to Frere's phonetic system of raised symbols, along with grammar exercises and "Saint Matthew Chap. XIII, The Parable of the Sower. Without Vowels." Raised letters of the alphabet appear in the headings on the key, in phonetic combinations above the equivalent Frere symbols, and above the Frere symbols on the grammar exercise pages. Text on the parable pages is read from left to right on one line, and from right to left on the next line. Single-sided embossing; pages are bound in a stiff red paper cover with cloth spine. "Instead of embossing from type, like his predecessors, Frere bent short lengths of copper wire into the signs, and fused the wire to a sheet of tin to make a single, handy embossed plate . . . " --Elizabeth Harris (In Touch).
Author: Frere, James Hatley
History/Provenance: Purchased from an antique bookdealer. Additional provenance not known.
Credit Line: Museum Purchase, 2001.62
Publisher Place: [London]
Publish Date: [1851]
Subjects: Grammar Language arts Readers (Books)
Physical Description: 10 p. of raised type ; 10.25 x 13 in.
