_Early Phonography_ (Vol. vi., p. 424.).--"Have the modern phonographists
ever owned their debt of gratitude to their predecessors in the phonetic
art?"
The subjoined advertisement may perhaps be considered an answer to this
Query:
"Hart's Orthography, 1569; or, 'An Orthographie conteyning the due
order and reason, howe to write or paint thimage of manne's voice, most
like to the life or nature. Composed by J. H. [John Hart], Chester
Heralt;' reprinted from a copy in the British Museum. Cloth, 2s.
"An unanswerable defence of Phonetic Spelling, and one of the earliest
schemes of Phonetic Orthography. A considerable portion of the book
being printed in the author's Phonetic Alphabet (given in the present
edition in Phonetic Longhand), we have thus exhibited the pronunciation
of the age of Shakspeare."