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The art of stenography: or, Short-writing, by spelling characterie. Inuented by Iohn Willis, Batchelour in Divinitie. The ninth edition. Whereunto is now adioyned the Schoolemaster to the said Art, compleatly fitted for this ninth edition, by the aforesaid authour, a little before his death

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Main Author:	Willis, John, d. 1625
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : Printed for Henry Seyle, and are to be sold at the Tygers-head in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1628.
Series:	Early English books online.
Subjects:	Shorthand > Early works to 1800.
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