Short-writing the most easie, exact, lineal and speedy method that hath ever been obtained or taught. [electronic resource] : Composed by Theophilus Metcalfe, author and professor of the said art. The fifty-fifth edition. The copper cuts having been newly corrected, 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. A young man that lately lived in Cornhill, learned so well by this book, that he wrote out all the Bible in this character.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Metcalfe, Theophilus, fl. 1649.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shorthand--Early works to 1800.

Shorthand.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([2],16p.,plates ) ill.,port. ;

Other Title:

Short-writing the most easie, exact, lineal and speedy method that hath ever been obtained or taught

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for Edmund Parker, at the Bible and Crown in Lombard-Street, [1721]

Notes:

With an additional titlepage, engraved.

A re-issue of the 1706 edition.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

Alston, VIII, 82

English Short Title Catalog, T123226.

OCLC:

508884596