Pantographia
Pantographia, with the full title being 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 is the title of a 1799 work on writing systems and typography by Edmund Fry, one of the most learned of the English typefounders of his day.
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; writing systems from Abyssinia to New Zealand, including 20 varieties of Chaldean, 39 of the Greek, 8 Egyptian, 11 Hebrew, 7 Irish, 6 Malayan, 7 Persian, 7 Phoenician, 7 Samaritan, one Tibetan, and 2 Welsh.
Extant copies of Fry's Pantographia are exceedingly rare but at least one sound specimen is preserved in the collection of the American Antiquarian Society.[1][2]
References
- ↑ Koopman, Harry Lyman (Mar–Aug 1910). "A pilgrimage to a typographic shrine". The Printing Art 15 (6): 430–432. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
- ↑ Brigham, Clarence S. (1921). Report of the Librarian (AAS, 1921) (PDF) (Technical report). American Antiquarian Society.
External links
- Fry, Edmund (1799). Pantographia. London: Cooper & Wilson.
- "Some page images scanned from Pantographia". Liam’s Pictures from Old Books. Retrieved October 17, 2011.
- "Pantographia; containing accurate copies of all the known alphabets in the world". archive.org. (full colour scan available in various formats). Retrieved February 10, 2015.