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| Title | An Essay Towards Establishing the Melody and Measure of Speech to be Expressed and Perpetuated by Peculiar Symbols |
| Author | Joshua Steele |
| Publisher | W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, 1775 |
| Original from | the Bavarian State Library |
| Digitized | Nov 19, 2010 |
| Length | 193 pages |
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