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An easy and compendious system of shorthand [electronic resource] : adapted to the arts and sciences, and to the learned professions. For the use of schools. Abstracted from the larger edition. By Thomas Sarjeant. [Four lines of verse] Illustrated with ten copperplates.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Gurney, Thomas, 1705-1770.
Contributor:
Lang, Thomas, 1763?-1793, printer.
Dobson, Thomas, 1751-1823, bookseller.
Sarjeant, Thomas, ed.
Sarjeant, Thomas, ill.
Birch, engraver.
Standardized Title:
Brachygraphy. Selections
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Shorthand.
Gurney, Thomas, 1705-1770--Portraits.
Gurney, Thomas.
Genre:
Booksellers' advertisements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Writing books.
Textbooks.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (21,[1]p., [1],X [i.e., IX] leaves of plates ) 1 port. ;
Other Title:
Easy and compendious system of shorthand
Gurney's brachygraphy, improved.
Place of Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed by T. Lang; sold by T. Dobson, 1792.
Notes:
Cover title on mounted slip: Gurney's Brachygraphy, improved. Price, one dollar.
Plate IX omitted from this edition.
Plates drawn by Sarjeant; plates and frontispiece portrait of Gurney engraved by Birch.
"Books--by the same author. Sold by T. Dobson .."--p. [22].
Reproduction of original from Library of Congress.
Cited in:
Evans, 24370
Rink, E. Technical Americana, 1978
English Short Title Catalog, W9395.
OCLC:
510941715

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