Author:Alexander John Ellis

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Alexander John Ellis
(1814–1890)

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English mathematician, philologist and musicologist; born Alexander John Sharpe

This author wrote articles for the Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition
Articles written by this author are designated in the EB9 by the initials "A. J. E."

Works

Phonetics : a familiar exposition of the principles of that science (1844) Google Books
The Alphabet of Nature (1845) IA HathiTrust HathiTrust HathiTrust
A Plea for Phonotypy and Phonography (1845) IA (HathiTrust)
A Plea for Phonetic Spelling (1848) IA, (HathiTrust)
Ƌɛ Esenʃalz ov Fɷnetics [The Essentials of Phonetics] (1848) IA (HathiTrust) (HathiTrust) (HathiTrust)
The Ethnical Alphabet or Alphabet of Nations (1848) (HathiTrust)
The Latinic Alphabet (1854) Google Books
Self-proving Examples in Arithmetic (1855) IA
Universal writing and printing with ordinary letters, for the use of missionaries, comparative philologists, linguists, and phonologists (1856) HathiTrust
Syllabus of a lecture on the pronunciation of English in the sixteenth, fourteenth and thirteenth centuries, illustrated by passages from Shakespere, Chaucer and others (1867) HathiTrust
The English, Dionysian, and Hellenic Pronunciations of Greek (1876) IA
On the Basis of Music (1877) IA
On Early English Pronunciation (1869–1889)
- part 1 (1869) IA IA
- part 2 (1869) IA
- part 3 (1871) IA IA IA
- part 4 (1874) IA IA IA
- part 5 (1889) IA

Works about Ellis

"Ellis, Alexander John," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Ellis, Alexander John," in A Dictionary of Music and Musicians, (ed.) by George Grove, London: MacMillan & Co., Ltd. (1900)
"Ellis, Alexander John," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1901 supplement, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1901) in 3 vols.

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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