Turquoise cloth covered boards with gilt lettering has soft bumping at spine ends and corners with few small areas of soiling on front cover. Trace soiling to text edges. Otherwise tight, clean, unmarked interior.; Containing an investigation of the correspondence of writing with speech in England, from the anglosaxon period to the present day, preceded by a systematic notation of all spoken sounds by means of the ordinary printing types. First published 1869-1889.; 8vo; 417-634 pages