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Gurney's easy and compendious system of shorthand [electronic resource] : adapted to the arts and sciences, and to the learned professions. Improved by Thomas Sergeant [i.e., Sarjeant].

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Gurney, Thomas, 1705-1770.
Contributor:
Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839, bookseller.
Dickson, William, 1764?-1823, printer.
Dickson, Robert, 1765?-1802, printer.
Sarjeant, Thomas, ed.
Sarjeant, Thomas, ill.
Birch, engraver.
Standardized Title:
Brachygraphy
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Shorthand.
Gurney, Thomas, 1705-1770--Portraits.
Gurney, Thomas.
Genre:
Writing books.
Textbooks.
Physical Description:
1 online resource ([3],6-38p. [1],XII leaves of plates ) 1 port. ;
Edition:
Second American edition. [Four lines of verse].
Other Title:
Gurney's easy and compendious system of shorthand
Place of Publication:
[Philadelphia] : Printed for Mathew Carey, Philadelphia, by W. & R. Dickson, Lancaster, June 17, 1799.
Notes:
Half-title wanting? - Plates drawn by J. Sarjeant; plates and frontispiece portrait of Gurney engraved by Birch.
Reproduction of original from National Library of Scotland.
Cited in:
Evans, 35578
Rink, E. Technical Americana, 1981
English Short Title Catalog, W23155.
OCLC:
511120174

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