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HOLDER (WILLIAM) Elements of Speech, FIRST EDITION, 1669
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HOLDER (WILLIAM)
Elements of Speech: an Essay of Inquiry into the Natural Production of Letters: With an Appendix Concerning Persons Deaf & Dumb, FIRST EDITION, title within double-rule border, woodcut initials and headpieces, licence leaf facing title, some slight crinkling, minor ink mark to D2, contemporary calf, worn with loss to lower cover and spine chipped at foot, joints weak [ESTC R13396; Garrison-Morton 3349; Norman 1087; Wellcome III p.291], 8vo, T. N[ewcomb] for J. Martyn Printer to the R. Society, at the Bell without Temple-Barr, 1669
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Provenance: William Pugh, 'No. 225 Vol. 1., Esgair, Llanbrynmair 1866', ownership inscription on licence leaf.

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