Short-writing : The most easie, exact, lineall and speedy method that hath ever been obtained, or taught. Composed by Theophilus Metcalfe, author and professor of the said art. The last edition. With a new table for shortning of words. Which book is able to make the practitioner perfect without a teacher. As many hundreds in this city, and elsewhere, that are able to write sermons word for word, can from their own experience testifie.

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Metcalfe, Theophilus, active 1649.

Series:

Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1919:29.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shorthand--Early works to 1800.

Shorthand.

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, 4-7, 9-12, 21-26 pages, plates

35 mm

monochrome

service copy

positive

Other Title:

Art of short-writing.

Place of Publication:

London : printed; and are to be sold by John Hancock at the first shop in Popes-head-Alley, next to Cornhill, 1660.

Notes:

Text is interspersed with plates of shorthand writing.

Running title reads: The art of short-writing.

Imperfect; pages stained affecting legibility.

Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1989. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700; 1919:29). s1989 miun a

Cited in:

Wing (2nd ed.) M1929.

OCLC:

55710412