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Pantographia (page 2/6)

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[picture: Front Cover, Fry's Pantographia]

Some page images scanned from Pantographia by Edmund Fry, 1799. I will photograph more on request; scanning would damage the binding of this relatively rare book.

There is also an index and a transcription of the entry for New Zealand.

Title: Pantographia

Author: Fry, Edmund

City: unknown

Date: 1799

Total items: 54

Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.

[picture: Front Cover, Fry's Pantographia]

Front Cover, Fry’s Pantographia

This unpreposessing volume contains the most fabulous examples of alphabets made with eighteenth century fonts and engravings. [$]

[picture: Page 4: Arabic: Kufic, Molach (modern) alphabet]
[picture: Page 5: Arabic: english description]
[picture: Page 8: Arabic (African); Lord's Prayer in Arabic; Armenian]
[picture: Page 9: Arabic (African); Lord's Prayer in Arabic; Armenian (English description)]
[picture: Page 10: Armenian]
[picture: Page 11: Armenian (English Description)]
[picture: Page 12: Armenian]

Page 12: Armenian

“Armenian 5
These letters are termed blooming or flowery, and are used in titles of books, and as two-line letters in the beginnings of chapters. They represent flowers, and the figures of [...]Lapidaire, No. 2. [more...] [$]

[picture: Armenian Figure Alphabet from p. 12]
[picture: Page 13: Armenian (English Description)]
[picture: Page 16: Atooi]

Page 16: Atooi

“Atooi is one of the Sandwich Islands in the South Seas, discovered by Captain Cook” [$]


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