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An easy and compendious system of shorthand; : adapted to the arts and sciences, and to the learned professions. / By Thomas Sarjeant. ; [Four lines of verse].
Evans Digital Edition Connect to full text, no. 21869 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gurney, Thomas, 1705-1770, author.
- Series:
- Early American imprints. First series ; no. 21869.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gurney, Thomas, 1705-1770--Portraits.
- Gurney, Thomas.
- Gurney, Thomas, 1705-1770.
- Shorthand.
- Genre:
- Publishers' advertisements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
- Poems -- 1789.
- Writing books.
- Textbooks.
- Portraits.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (46 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates, XII leaves of plates) : 1 portrait
- Other Title:
- Gurney's brachygraphy, improved.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia; : Printed by Dobson and Lang for the editor: sold by T. Dobson, W. Prichard, and all other booksellers, Philadelphia; S. Campbell, New York; B. Larkin, Boston; J. Adams, Wilmington; Rice and Company Baltimore; T. Brend, Richmond., MDCCLXXXIX. [1789]
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- Half-title: Gurney's Brachygraphy, improved. [Price, half a guinea.]
- "In conformity to the plan of the original author of this system, the present editor will upon application, personally obviate any difficulty that may arise ... if the number of the copy in the student's possession be inserted."--p. [10].
- Plates drawn by Sarjeant; plates and frontispiece portrait of Gurney engraved by Birch.
- Poems to the author, Thomas Gurney, by various writers, pages 5-8.
- Advertisement for books "For the use of schools and private education. Just published by the same author ...", pages [47-48].
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 21869).
- Cited in:
- Evans 21869
- Rink, E. Technical Americana, 1977
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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