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[Type of the Times: a semi-monthly journal of the writing and spelling reform - advertisement - illustrated envelope].
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Misc Print Collection box 3 no 69
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Spelling reform--Periodicals.
- Spelling reform.
- Type of the times a journal of the writing and spelling reform.
- Youth's monthly friend.
- Local Subjects:
- Type of the times a journal of the writing and spelling reform.
- Youth's monthly friend.
- Genre:
- Ephemera.
- Physical Description:
- 1 envelope : illustration ; 8 x 14 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cincinnati : Longley Brothers, [1860?]
- Notes:
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- "An illustrated envelope promoting phonography and advertising the 'Type of the Times: A semi-monthly Journal of the Writing and Spelling Reform.' This advertising cover promotes reforming American education by replacing the traditional alphabet and traditional spellings with a phonographic alphabet and phonographic spelling. The front features endorsements from Senator Thomas Hart Benton, Fowler & Wells and Horace Mann. Half of Mann's endorsement is phenotypically printed. The sealing flap on the reverse advertises two journals, Type of the Times: A semi-monthly Journal of the Writing and Spelling Reform and The Monthly Youth's Friend. Both were published by The Longley Brothers, the leaders of the American phonography movement and world's largest and most important phonotypy printer. The envelope is addressed to Messers S.D.S. Perkins of St. Charles, Illinois. It is annotated in the bottom margin, 'Judge Wakefield.' It is franked with a 3-cent Washington stamp (Scott #260) and canceled with a partially legible circular postmark that possibly reads DeWitt, Illinois."--Vendor's description.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2019 from Read'Em Again Books.
- OCLC:
- 1192966228
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