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Short-writing shotned: or, The art of short-writing reduced to a method more speedy, plain, exact, and easie, than hath been heretofore published : In which, the principal difficulties and discouragements that have been found in short-writing, particularly the buthening of memory with, and inconvenient joyning of many characters, are removed; and the whole art so disposed, that all usual words may be written with aptnesse and brevity. By John Farthing late author and teacher thereof, who had practised short-writing 46. years.

Van Pelt - Microtext STC II Reel 1793:5.
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Format:
Microformat
Author/Creator:
Farthing, John.
Series:
Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1793:5.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Shorthand--Early works to 1800.
Shorthand.
Physical Description:
23 unnumbered pages, 33-38, 1-8 pages
35 mm
monochrome
service copy
positive
Other Title:
Short-writing shotned
Short-writing shortned.
Art of short-writing reduced to a method more speedy, plain, exact, and easie, than hath been heretofore published.
Place of Publication:
London : printed for Tho. Parkhurst, at the Bible and Three-Crowns in Cheapside near Mercers-Chappel, 1684.
Notes:
The last 8 pages are an advertisement for John Marshall, bookseller.
Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library.
Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1987. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700; 1793:5). s1987 miun a
Cited in:
Wing (2nd ed.) F533.
OCLC:
55710190

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