An easy and compendious system of shorthand : adapted to the arts and sciences, and to the learned professions. /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Gurney, Thomas, 1705-1770
Other Authors:	Sarjeant, Thomas (Editor, Illustrator), Birch (Engraver)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Series:	Early American imprints. Evans (1639-1800) ; no. 21869.
Subjects:	Gurney, Thomas, > 1705-1770 > Portraits. Shorthand. Publishers' advertisements > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia. Poems > 1789. Writing books. Textbooks.
Online Access:	Evans Digital Edition

Description
Item Description:	Half-title: Gurney's Brachygraphy, improved. [Price, half a guinea.] "In conformity to the plan of the original author of this system, the present editor will upon application, personally obviate any difficulty that may arise ... if the number of the copy in the student's possession be inserted."--page [10]. Plates drawn by Sarjeant; plates and frontispiece portrait of Gurney engraved by Birch. Poems to the author, Thomas Gurney, by various writers, pages 5-8. Advertisement for books "For the use of schools and private education. Just published by the same author ...", pages [47-48]. Electronic resource.
Physical Description:	46 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered page, XII leaves of plates : 1 portrait ; 15 cm. (octavo) Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Place of Publication:	United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. United States -- New York -- New York. United States -- Massachusetts -- Boston. United States -- Delaware -- Wilmington. United States -- Maryland -- Baltimore. United States -- Virginia -- Richmond.