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Pantographia

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Fry provided a description of each alphabet on the right-handed pages with a specimen of the full range of the alphabet on the left. Fry spent sixteen years researching the book, which contains more than 200 specimens, with writing systems from
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Pantographia; containing accurate copies of all the known alphabets in the world; together with an English explanation of the peculiar force or power of each letter
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are exceedingly rare but at least one sound specimen is preserved in the collection of the
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Pantographia; containing accurate copies of all the known alphabets in the world
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1799 work on writing systems and typography by Edmund Fry
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Bastarda
Bengali
writing systems
typography
Edmund Fry
Abyssinia
New Zealand
Chaldean
Greek
Phoenician
American Antiquarian Society
Drucker, Johanna
"Edmund Fry's 1799 Pantographia as a typo-bibliographical resource for alphabet historiography"
"A pilgrimage to a typographic shrine"
Report of the Librarian (AAS, 1921)
Fry, Edmund
Pantographia
"Pantographia; containing accurate copies of all the known alphabets in the world"
Pantographia; containing accurate copies of all the known alphabets in the world
"Some page images scanned from Pantographia"
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