Cadmus Britannicus : or, the art of writing improved : containing I. A short-hand, where very great Haste is not required, though shorter by one Half than our common Way of Writing. II. A Swifter Short-Hand, for taking down Speeches and Sermons after a Speaker or Preacher. III. A Short-Hand For Music, whereby much more may be written in the same Space of Time than in the usual Way. IV. An universal character, i.e. a complete grammar of it, with some General Rules for compiling a Dictionary. All Which Four Schemes, or Systems, Are warranted to be Originals; and not one single Character borrowed, or taken out of any former Author. And Are now published for the use of writing-masters, and all other Ingenious Pen-Men in the British Empire. By S. G. Bordley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bordley, Simon George, 1709-1799.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shorthand--Early works to 1800.

Shorthand.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([8],viii,48,[10]p.,8 plates )

Other Title:

Cadmus Britannicus

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for the author: and sold by J. P. Coghlan, Bookseller, in Duke-Street, near Grosvenor-Square, London, either by Wholesale in Shects, or bound, with good Allowance to Booksellers and such as sell them again; or by Retail, at 4s. per Book bound, [1787]

Notes:

With letterpress explanation of the plates and a final errata leaf.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T121926.

OCLC:

642327748