Detail View: LUNA: Folger Digital Image Collection: Philocophus: or, The deafe and dumbe mans friend. Exhibiting the philosophicall verity of that subtile art, which may inable one with an observant eie, to heare what any man speaks by the moving of his lips. Upon the same ground, with the advantage of an historicall exemplification, apparently proving, that a man borne deafe and dumbe, may be taught to heare the sound of words with his eie, & thence learne to speake with his tongue. By I.B. sirnamed the Chirosopher.

Digital Image File Name: 
54187
Source Call Number: 
165- 558q
Source Creator: 
J. B. (John Bulwer), fl. 1648-1654.
Source Title: 
Philocophus: or, The deafe and dumbe mans friend. Exhibiting the philosophicall verity of that subtile art, which may inable one with an observant eie, to heare what any man speaks by the moving of his lips. Upon the same ground, with the advantage of an historicall exemplification, apparently proving, that a man borne deafe and dumbe, may be taught to heare the sound of words with his eie, & thence learne to speake with his tongue. By I.B. sirnamed the Chirosopher.
Source Created or Published: 
1648
Physical Description: 
engraved frontispiece: signed, W. Marshall sculpsit.
Digital Image Type: 
FSL collection
HAMNET CATALOG RECORD: 
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Creator (Hamnet): 
J. B. (John Bulwer), fl. 1648-1654.
Title (Hamnet): 
Philocophus: or, The deafe and dumbe mans friend. Exhibiting the philosophicall verity of that subtile art, which may inable one with an observant eie, to heare what any man speaks by the moving of his lips. Upon the same ground, with the advantage of an historicall exemplification, apparently proving, that a man borne deafe and dumbe, may be taught to heare the sound of words with his eie, & thence learne to speake with his tongue. By I.B. sirnamed the Chirosopher.
Place of Creation or Publ. (Hamnet): 
London :
Publisher (Hamnet): 
printed for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard,
Date of Creation or Publ. (Hamnet): 
1648.
Physical Description (Hamnet): 
[38], 191, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates ; 12⁰.
Subject (Hamnet): 
Deaf -- Means of communication -- Early works to 1800.
Subject (Hamnet): 
Deafness -- Early works to 1800.
Subject (Hamnet): 
Deaf -- Education -- Early works to 1800.
Subject (Hamnet): 
Lipreading -- Early works to 1800.
Associated Name (Hamnet): 
Stirling Maxwell, William, 1818-1878, former owner.
Associated Name (Hamnet): 
Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, printmaker.
Notes (Hamnet): 
I.B. = John Bulwer.
Notes (Hamnet): 
Engraved frontispiece signed: W. Marshall sculpsit.
Notes (Hamnet): 
Signatures: pi1 A¹² b⁶ B-I¹².
Citations (Hamnet): 
Wing (2nd ed., 1994), B5469
Citations (Hamnet): 
ESTC (RLIN) R3977
Folger Holdings Notes (Hamnet): 
Maroon morocco gilt armorial binding. Provenance: book stamp on pi1v and t.p.: "W * G"; armorial bookplate of William Stirling; with unidentified monogram, arms and motto "forward gang" stamped in gilt on front and back covers
Call Number (Hamnet): 
165- 558q