Phreno-mnemotechnic dictionary; being a philosophical classification of all the homophonic words of the English language.to be used in the application of the phreno-mnemotechnic principles. Part first (all published)

Descripción:

First and apparently only edition, 8vo, pp. iv, 197, [1]; iv, [38] tables; frontispiece portrait, 4 very large folding tables (1 loose, but present); foxing, sometimes heavy, spine ends a little chipped, text block upside down in binding; otherwise generally a very good copy in original brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine. As a pseudo-science, mnemonics gained considerable favor in the mid-19th century, Fauvel-Gouraud being one of its more outspoken proponents. The BM catalogue lists at least two other works of his on the subject, both published in America, as well as a book on universal alphabets. The work at hand is a dictionary designed to facilitate the memory process, and with its folding tables and appendices appears to be as much a challenge for the printer as it was for the public at large. Although Part II is duly announced in the Preface, I can find no record of it ever having been published. A series of lectures on the same subject was, however, published the following year. "The authorities followed in the first part, as standards for orthography and pronunciation, are Walker, Johnson, Webster and the other most approved lexicographers" (from the Preface). N° de ref. del artículo 53882

Denunciar este artículo