I don't yet have links to them from appropriate sections in my brand
spankin' new website, but I wanted to announce it anyway: I have scans
of a book and an article about Alexander Melville Bell's "Visible
Speech" phonetic alphabet. I've scanned Bell's own "Sounds and their
Relations" and also an article by Henry Sweet in which he discusses the
system and describes his own changes to it. (Sweet's version is easier
to work with, I think. His understanding of phonetics is also closer to
the modern view).


The files are in .djvu format, which I think is most suitable for
scanned documents. They're certainly a *lot* smaller than they would be
as pdf's. Djvu software can be obtained from
http://www.lizardtech.com/download/dl_options.php?page=doc and source
code and such things from http://djvulibre.djvuzone.org/


Sorry for the unusual format. If I can find a way to make smaller pdf's
of them maybe I'll put them up. But djvu deserves more acceptance
anyway; it's a good format.


The files are at

http://web.meson.org/downloads/Sounds%20and%20Their%20Relations.djvu

and

http://web.meson.org/downloads/Sound%20Notation,%20Henry%20Sweet.djvu

(there's also a much larger higher resolution version of Sound Notation
that I scanned at the wrong resolution by mistake, at
http://web.meson.org/downloads/Sound%20Notation,%20Henry%20Sweet%20(600dpi).djvu
)


It's a really nifty little system, with features of the glyphs mapping
to perceived features of the phone(me)s, etc.


~mark