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The pen's dexterity : or, the art of short-writing improved, by incomparable contractions, whereby a sentence is writ as soon as a word. Allow'd by Authority, and past the two Universities with great Applause. Invented and taught by Jeremiah Rich.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Rich, Jeremiah, d. 1660?.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Shorthand--Early works to 1800.
Shorthand.
Physical Description:
1 online resource ([4]p.,plates,[4]p. ) port. ;
Other Title:
Pen's dexterity
Place of Publication:
London : printed for John Marshall, at the Bible in Gracechurch-Street; where is also sold Mr. Rich's New Testament and Singing-Psalms, of great advantage to Learners, [1705?]
Notes:
Titlepage, introduction and two final advertisement leaves in letterpress; the text in short-hand, engraved.
In this edition there is no price at the end of the imprint.
Reproduction of original from British Library.
Cited in:
Alston, VIII, 114
English Short Title Catalog, T109861.
OCLC:
642275385

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