The pen's dexterity : or, the ingenious and useful art of writing short-hand. Containing twenty copper-plates, (curiously engraved in the Author's Life-Time for the Use of his Scholars) of all the Letters, Characters, and Contractions used therein. - With Rules and Directions explaining the same to the meanest Capacity. Whereunto are added, Law-Terms, with other Discourses, as on War, Trade, Birds, Beasts, Fruit, Vermin, &c. By Jeremiah Rich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rich, Jeremiah, -1660?

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shorthand--Early works to 1800.

Shorthand.

Physical Description:

3 unnumbered pages,6-8,15-16,23-30,34-41 pages, 1 unnumbered page,plates : portrait ; 8⁰

Edition:

The twentieth edition.

Place of Publication:

Leeds : printed for John Binns, (), [1792]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

Text interleaved with short-hand, engraved on plates numbered to fill the gaps in pagination.

Price from imprint: price One Shilling and Six-Pence.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from Huntington Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, N20846.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.