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    Peckish Alphabetics: *The Tragical Death of a Apple-Pye* (ca. 1793–1796)
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    Communication

    Peckish Alphabetics: The Tragical Death of a Apple-Pye (ca. 1793–1796)

    American Grammar: Diagraming Sentences in the 19th Century
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    Communication

    American Grammar: Diagraming Sentences in the 19th Century

    *Pantographia*: A Specimen Book of All the Alphabets Known on Earth (1799)
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    Communication

    Pantographia: A Specimen Book of All the Alphabets Known on Earth (1799)

    *A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words* (1860)
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    Customs & Culture, Communication

    A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words (1860)

    *Indian Sign Talk* (1893)
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    Customs & Culture, Communication

    Indian Sign Talk (1893)

    *Punctuation Personified* (1824)
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    Design & Typography, Communication

    Punctuation Personified (1824)

    Jan Luyken’s Frontispiece for *Osteologia* (1680)
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    Animals & Beasts, Death, Communication, Religion, Myth & Legend

    Jan Luyken’s Frontispiece for Osteologia (1680)

    Knowledge by the Pound: *The Renowned History of Giles Gingerbread* (1768)
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    Communication

    Knowledge by the Pound: The Renowned History of Giles Gingerbread (1768)

    William James on the Stream of Consciousness (1890)
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    Science & Medicine, Communication

    William James on the Stream of Consciousness (1890)

    Reciting Pictures: Buddhist Texts for the Illiterate
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    Customs & Culture, Communication, Religion, Myth & Legend

    Reciting Pictures: Buddhist Texts for the Illiterate

    Aspirated Aspirations: Alfred Leach’s *The Letter H* (1880)
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    Communication

    Aspirated Aspirations: Alfred Leach’s The Letter H (1880)

    Glossary of Censored Words from a 1919 Treatise on Love
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    Love & Lust, Communication

    Glossary of Censored Words from a 1919 Treatise on Love

    The Cubies’ ABC (1913)
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    Music & Arts, Communication

    The Cubies’ ABC (1913)

    Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Gold-Bug” (1843)
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    Communication

    Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Gold-Bug” (1843)

    The Language of Flowers: An Alphabet of Floral Emblems (1857)
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    Communication, Natural World, Emotion & Expression

    The Language of Flowers: An Alphabet of Floral Emblems (1857)

    X is for...
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    Communication

    X is for...

    Jan van Kessel’s Signature of Caterpillars and Snakes (1657)
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    Animals & Beasts, Communication

    Jan van Kessel’s Signature of Caterpillars and Snakes (1657)

    Medieval Pattern Poems of Rabanus Maurus (9th Century)
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    Design & Typography, Religion, Myth & Legend, Communication

    Medieval Pattern Poems of Rabanus Maurus (9th Century)

    Alice’s Adventures in Shorthand (1919)
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    Communication

    Alice’s Adventures in Shorthand (1919)

    Robert Fludd’s Memory Tricks (1617)
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    Communication, Geometry & Diagrams

    Robert Fludd’s Memory Tricks (1617)

    Nineteenth-Century Textspeak
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    Communication

    Nineteenth-Century Textspeak

    Mnemonic Alphabet of Jacobus Publicius (1482)
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    Communication

    Mnemonic Alphabet of Jacobus Publicius (1482)

    Letters to Dead Authors (1886)
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    Music & Arts, Communication

    Letters to Dead Authors (1886)

    Napoleon’s “Englich” Lessons
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    Communication

    Napoleon’s “Englich” Lessons