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Press notices of the original edition

“The book is a typographical feat.”—Daily News.

“This unique book, which is superbly printed, will be a grand addition to the library of a collector of literary curiosities.”—City Press.


superbly printed, will be a grand addition

to the Hbrary of a collector of literary curiosities."

"The

extraordinary resources

of

collection of Oriental type have enabled

unique triumph of typography."

"

A

beautiful

Ci^j Press.

and

Messrs.

Gilbert

them

produce what

to

its

is

almost a

Bookseller.

specimen of modern typography, and does

to the printing staff of

Rivington's

infinite credit

well-known publishers."— Z'^/M/^ Evening Mail.

"Is certainly worth buying as a literary curiosity. To students of philology or lovers of the curious the book will be almost equally interest-

mg— one

of the triumphs of

modern typography."

" This beautifully printed

chief languages

and

Dundee

book may be described

...

dialects of the world

is

as a

Advertiser.

museum

of the

of the highest interest for

all

students of the science of language, that even those

who do not pretend

to

be great

comparing together

this

linguists

immense

cannot

variety of

fail

human

to find a pleasure in

speech.

The

large

number of

the Oriental

alphabets employed in the production of the work shows in a very striking way the exceptional resources of Messrs. Gilbert and Rivington's printing

establishment."— Catholic Times.

"The the

enterprising

world to

rival

— Overland Mail.

publishers of this

them

in

variety

of

book can type for

fearlessly challenge

sublunary

printing."

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