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A new help and improvement of the art of swift writing : being an alphabet not only contrive'd to be convenient for that purpose, but correspondent also in its Elements, especially the Consonants, to the several Articulations and Utterances that compose the English Language. Also Suitable Rules and Expedients of joining Letters, and abridging Words. With an appendix, containing Characters and Instructions for the Use of a larger Sett of Vowels, in which a philosophical Exactness is farther pursu'd. By William Tiffin, Chaplain of Wigston's Hospital in Leicester. Scribendo disces scribere.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Tiffin, William, ca. 1695-1759.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Shorthand.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (52p.,12 plates )
Other Title:
New help and improvement of the art of swift writing
Place of Publication:
London : printed for the author, by John Hart, in Popping's-Court, Fleet-Street, [1751]
Notes:
With a half-title.
With the author's autograph at the foot of p.52.
Price from imprint: Price Seven Shillings and Six-Pence.
Reproduction of original from British Library.
Cited in:
English Short Title Catalog, T137216.
OCLC:
642401375

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