PANTOGRAPHIA by Edmond Fry – First Edition Hardcover

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PANTOGRAPHIA by Edmond Fry – First Edition Hardcover

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Weight 3.0 lbs

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Hardcover bound in Italian Fedrigoni Imitlin
Measures 140×215 mm
120 gram black Endpapers
Printed on 115 g wood-free, age resistant Cream paper
Sewn Book Block
Hotfoil printing on the front and spine,
Blind debossing on the back

Book is in new unread condition

Published by Black Letter Press

About this book:

Pantographia by Edmund Fry, London 1799, contains more than two hundred alphabets.

This book is full of curiosities, like Chaldean 1. Fry traces this to the French scholar and astrologer Jacques Gaffarel (1601 – 1681). There is a woodcut depicting the hemispheres and their constellations, from which Fry drew his Cælestial alphabet. Gaffarel in turn borrowed the alphabet from Guillaume Postel (1510 – 1581), the polyglot French linguist, astronomer, Christian Cabalist, and di­plo­mat. However, Postel was not its creator; it first appeared in the third book of Agrippa’s De Occulta Philosophia.

Many of the characters were expressly cut by Fry for his book. Pantographia has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature.

Foreword by Jan Düsterhöft.

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Small but well crafted but that would be a great addition to any library

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Brandy Dority
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A truly beautiful copy of this book. The cover is just stunning. I am pleased to have this on my bookshelf.

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