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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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