[DCRM-L] transcription of phonetic alphabet

[Ottenhoff, Chloe]

Greetings,
I would like to update the record for a Micmac language Book of Psalms (1859), translated by Silas Tertius Rand adapting characters from Isaac Pitman’s and Alexander John Ellis’s phonetic alphabet.
A surrogate is available here: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100263106
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mi%27kmaq_language#Writing_system
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/English_Phonotypic_Alphabet_-_1847.png

There are several OCLC records available, some that substitute unavailable characters for approximate characters, some that supply the intended sound in square brackets, and some that do neither (OCLC 234125621, 977838576, and 15068741, respectively, for examples). There is a romanization table for Deseret, which was also based on the Pitman system, but not sure whether the same principles apply, and many of the characters are different. Should long and short vowels be distinguished and how? Sounds supplied?

My thoughts are along the lines below:
[Th]e Buk ov Samz : $b in Mikmak.
Printed for [th]e Briti[sh] and Foren Beibel Sōseieti, bei Eizak Pitman, Ba[th] (Bath) (but the character “th” character in “THE” at head of title doesn’t match the one in the first “BATH”)
T.p. verso: Printed bei Eizak Pitman, Fōnetik Institincon, Parson[ee]dj l[ee]n Ba[th]
Colophon: Printed bei Eizak Pitman, Fōnetik Institi[oo]t, Parson[ee]dj l[ee]n Ba[th]

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Chloe

CHLOE OTTENHOFF
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