English visible speech for the million : for communicating the exact pronunciation of the language to native or foreign learners, and for teaching children and illiterate adults to read in a few days.
- Alexander Melville Bell
- Date:
- [1868]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: English visible speech for the million : for communicating the exact pronunciation of the language to native or foreign learners, and for teaching children and illiterate adults to read in a few days. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.
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![ON VISIBLE SPEECH. PUBLISHED BY SIMPKIN, MARSHALL & CO., LONDON; N. TRUBNER & CO., LONDON AND NEW YORK; AND SOLD BY ALL BOOKSELLERS. Recently issued, quarto, handsomely bound, price 15s., Inaugural Edition of the Cosmopolitan Invention, entitled VISIBLE SPEECH—The Science of Universal Alphabetics: or Self-Interpreting Physiological Letters for the Printing and Writing of ALL LANGUAGES IN ONE ALPHABET. Elucidated by Theoretical Explanations, Tables, Diagrams, and Examples. Now ready, quarto, Paper Covers, price One Shilling. ENGLISH VISIBLE SPEECH fob the Million: with Pictorial Illustrations, Diagrams, and Reading Exercises. Adapted for Self-Instruction. Also, quarto, Paper Covers, price Sixpence. CLASS-PRIMER of English Visible Speech : containing the Illustrations, Diagrams, and Reading Exercises in the preceding Work, reprinted (without the Theoretical Explanations) for the use of Learners in Classes. 12mo, Paper Covers, price One Shilling. VISIBLE SPEECH—AKew Fact Demonstrated: the Pamphlet issued before the publica- tion of the System, and containing a Description of the Invention, Record of Experiments, Offer to Government, &c. In Preparation, to be ready early in 1868. UNIVERSAL SHORT-HAND, on the Basis of 'Visible Speech.'—A New System of Steno-Phonography, adapted for Vernacular Reporting, as well as for Exact Orthoepic Writing, IN ALL LANGUAGES. No previous knowledge of the Symbols of 'Visible Speech' is required by learners of this system, the relations of Sounds being equally exhibited in the Short-hand characters. The English Alphabet will be mastered by any person after a few minutes' study. Any of the above Works will be sent— Post Free within the United Kingdom—by the Author, on receipt of the Published Price in Postage Labels [or P. 0. Order, payable at the N. W. District Office.]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21034254_0021.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
